While standard receptacles typically use three wires -- hot, neutral and ground -- you'll occasionally find 2-prong outlets in older homes. Since this type of outlet lacks a ground connection, the ...

When Paul Szápáry invited a girlfriend to his summer home in Newport as a young man, he told her he lived in a big house to prepare her for the fact that the "big house" was the Breakers, the 70-room ...

Regular readers may remember that I pulled a Toyota Century out of a kudzu patch in Durham, back in June. Thomas, first mate ...