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Not necessarily related to a particular state or location, but valuable information nevertheless.
The lonely Hunter in all of us
The game was “designed to break your heart.” Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti wrote that about baseball but it could apply to golf equally well, especially today. On the world’s biggest...
Review: Old Marsh, Wells, ME
New England is known as “The Land of Steady Habits,” and one of those habits for natives is to live from cradle to grave in the region of their upbringing, venturing forth for visits to friends who live in...
Many golf choices in best small towns
Our friends at the web site Small Town Gems recently completed a swing through North Carolina and assessed some of the state’s most charming smaller towns, among them some choices that dedicated...
Golf Discovery Package: No price, no visit
I have been doing research on golf community discovery packages these past few days for an article I will be writing for New England Golf Monthly as well as here in this space. I have discovered an odd trend...
Latest newsletter goes deep into the pockets of golf communities
Golf community developers and real estate agencies have to give the people what they want. Back in their heyday, what potential buyers wanted were amenities. A perfectly fine golf community selling...
First look at Wells, ME's Old Marsh club
Played Old Marsh Golf Club in Wells, ME, today. In many ways, the course is a combination of classic and modern touches. The plentiful fairway sand bunkers are festooned with long, thick grasses...
Lao and Order: A dozen bits of wisdom to put yin in your drive and yang in your putt
With apologies to Lao-tzu and his Tao Te Ching (the 2,500 year old Book of Wisdom) by Rick Vogel Golf is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot...
High times for low-priced golf properties
I am headed to The Manor golf resort in rural Virginia next week to watch a two-day college golf tournament hosted by Hampden-Sydney College. Back in the heyday of planned community development,...
AARP weighs in on best overseas retirement locations
We wrote here the other day that International Living magazine had anointed Ecuador as the best place for Americans to settle in retirement. In its latest issue, AARP magazine provides its take on the...
And the best country for retirement is…Ecuador
I subscribe to International Living magazine, and in the publication’s September issue, the editors rank countries by their suitability as retirement destinations. The annual “retirement index”...
Jobs key to housing recovery, and some cities look better than others
Economists and the man on the street generally agree that the housing market will not recover until the jobs market does. An unemployment rate of 9.5% is not going to help chip away at the inventory...
New look for Golf Community Reviews
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. -– Calvin, of the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” When my wife isn’t looking, I move some of the...