COOLER temperatures often drive people indoors, but not everyone is disappointed by the change of seasons. Douglas Wright, an architect with Hart Howerton, a firm based in New York and San Francisco, said many of his male clients look forward to hibernating in "man caves" -- cozy, masculine dens where they can pursue interests like spectator sports, woodworking or billiards. (Yesterday)

In the 1960s, Ruth Weir promised her husband she would quit smoking if she could decorate the living room of the pre-Civil War farmhouse on the grounds of Greenwood Cemetery in O'Hara. (10/31/2009)

HIGH POINT, N.C. -- It's the little things that count in life. (10/31/2009)

Jim and Clare Hoke spent most of their adult lives in a 1920s Victorian-style house in Shaler. (10/31/2009)

Gladys Chappel has waited for more than 50 years for the answer to one question: What is that plant growing outside her back door? (10/31/2009)