Inspired by her grandmother, a McDowell County woman swirled together cinnamon and dough in the kitchen where she learned how to bake. Now, she shares her sweets with the whole community at Gogo’s Cinnamon Rolls.
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Linville Caverns
Underneath Humpback Mountain, a stalactite-riddled cave serves as a shelter, habitat, and source of awe with its near-ethereal ecosystem.
Rice Among the Hmong in McDowell County
Carolina Gold is making a comeback in fields out east, but here are two sides to North Carolina’s rice revival.
McDowell Local Dishes Up a Foothills Feast
In McDowell County, there’s a cardinal rule of eating local: Food should always be fun.
Linville Caverns
The bats living in the caves under Humpback Mountain scare some people, but not Sarah Davis. She owns the darkness and has come to terms with what’s in it.
Hell and High Water: The Flood of 1916
The flood of 1916 broke every record in the book. The death and destruction it caused in Western North Carolina defined flooding for an entire generation of survivors, and their stories live on nearly 100 years later.
