Word: ranched
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...bears down on Pea Level, a country house in Wetumpka, Ala., so named because it sits on a plot of wooded land at the ideal height for growing peas. The yellow ranch house once belonged to the late Clifford J. and Virginia F. Durr, he a white civil rights attorney who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail, she one of the few white organizers of the subsequent bus boycott...
...have here in this city. He leans back and laughs, only his shoulders and bottom touching the rocking chair. His two neighbors throw back their heads, too, showing glowing gold fillings. So long as they can laugh, they don’t question the cause. Next door is the ranch house which has been his since 1978. Though Fountain’s driveway hosts an unlikely menagerie, the inside reveals nothing unique in this town, just gutted walls and moldy phantoms. In a doorless closet hang some shirts, and a small plasma TV babbles happily in the converted garage. Fountain...
...With an inordinate number of young children, the baseball parks more closely resemble Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch than Yankee Stadium...
...deer. One of the best places to catch a glimpse of these native bovines is Wyoming?home not only to Yellowstone National Park but also the Teton Mountains and the National Elk Refuge. Just to the south of these three ecological wonderlands is the 400-hectare Spring Creek Ranch (springcreekranch.com) at Jackson Hole. Under the guidance of Kurt Johnson, the ranch's resident naturalist, and armed with spotting scopes and high-powered binoculars, guests get a backstage pass to Wyoming's majestic menagerie. The kind of activity on view depends on the time of year. May's awkward newborns turn...
...Shawn Sturgill's parents in the living room of their ranch-style home around the corner from Shelbyville's cemetery. At age 15, Shawn's father Steve, with a child on the way, dropped out of high school and then spent more than a decade battling drug abuse. He was born again six years ago, he says, patting the thick wooden cross around his neck. He has been clean since and has a high-paying job burying fiber-optic cables. But his turnaround came too late to be a model for his three older children, two of whom dropped...