The biggest, tallest, truest tale in NASCAR history happened in 1953 on a half-mile dirt track in Hickory. A monkey named Jocko Flocko beat 26 other drivers to take home the checkered flag.
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Our State magazine celebrates its 80th anniversary this June. We look pretty good for our age, don’t we?
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See inside some of the earliest pages of Our State in this special 80th anniversary photo gallery.
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View a gallery of Our State covers through the years.
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In 86 years of life in North Carolina, Billy Arthur has pretty much done it all.
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A Catawba County native becomes a trusted correspondent in a time when battle stories are sensational. (Volume 3, Part 5)
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Nineteen families found a raw barrier island in the 1970s and made it theirs. They took advantage of the hardscrabble, primitive playground that was Bald Head Island and developed a vision for this place that still holds true.
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Capt. Ernie Foster is likely the last captain in the original family of sport fishing — his father started the first charter boat in North Carolina in 1937. Now this Hatteras captain works to keep the family fleet that fishes for fun in harmony with neighbors who fish for profit.
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How can a singular beacon represent so much? Our seven lighthouses powerfully reflect our own values — of innovation, endurance, and strength.
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A Yankee fighting for the South is taken as a prisoner of war. (Volume 3, Part 4)
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