Deborah Lawrenson

Seventy years ago today, the American-led liberation of southern France reached the town of Apt. The previous day, the tanks and Jeeps ha...

    The lavender cutting has begun. When the wind catches the fields, warm gusts of scent rise into the air. And when the harvest i...

         When the local newspapers weren’t full of financial worries, layoffs at fruit packing plants and the crystallized fruit factories...