Like many scouts, 18-year-old Zander Arnold joined the Cubs Scouts in the second grade, hoping to someday reach Eagle Scout status. “I knew I wanted to be an Eagle Scout from the beginning,” Arnold ...

My Nonno (my grandfather!) learned to make nautical knots over 70 years ago while working on a fishing ship in Sicily. His older brother taught him how to make them, and now he is teaching me. Each ...

A version of this story ran in The Virginian-Pilot on Sept. 14, 2005. Hurricane or no, we’re in for a blow. Time to start thinking about how to secure the woodpile or lash the garbage cans to a tree.