THE BEST OF THE BEST Once in a while I come across people, organizations, and travel destinations that I think are exceptional. On the Scene will devote itself to these special people and places

ARDENWOOD HISTORIC FARM Ardenwood farm is a working farm that dates back to the time of the Patterson Ranch, a 19th-century estate with a mansion and Victorian Gardens. Today, the farm still practices farming techniques from the 1870s.

PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. — Old tins of salmon are stacked on white shelves in the general store. Typewriters from the 1930s top large wooden desks in an office that hasn’t been used for decades, while in a nearby building, canning machines, that once chugged along noisily, now sit silent.

North Carolina’s friendliness for the military is being used by online scammers to get money from the unsuspecting.

Robin Hood remains as elusive as in his heyday but the folk hero who stole from the rich and gave to the poor is still contributing to Nottingham’s coffers.

PIKES PEAK, COLO. After an hour of finicky excavating, Wayne Hancock pries a granite slab from the tundra below Pikes Peak’s lonely South Slope. “Come on, give me an ‘X’,” he mutters.

PHILADELPHIA Sandy Cohen looked up from the deck of a stalled tourist boat to see an enormous barge approaching fast, and it was clear it wasn’t go to stop. Then came the screams.

After an hour of finicky excavating, Wayne Hancock pries a granite slab from the tundra below Pikes Peak’s lonely South Slope. “Come on, give me an ‘X’,” he mutters.

ARDENWOOD HISTORIC FARM Ardenwood farm is a working farm that dates back to the time of the Patterson Ranch, a 19th-century estate with a mansion and Victorian Gardens. Today, the farm still practices farming techniques from the 1870s.

Now this is Big Love! Days of Our Lives will celebrate the life, and honor the passing, of legendary actress Frances Reid with a farewell that’s unprecedented in soap history. The beloved veteran, who played Salem matriarch Alice Horton from the show’s …