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Readers’ Choice: Our State‘s Best of 2011 Winners

The results are in! Take a look at the Readers’ Choice winners for favorite cover, photo essay, story, recipe, and video of 2011.
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Friday Night Fish Fry

To get to Little Texas Fish Camp from my house in Randolph County, you had to cross a one-lane bridge that ran beside a dam. The bridge was past the round of a curve, and it was tricky business to
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Southern Storms

My grandmother always knew when a storm was coming. If we had the windows open in the house, or if we were out in the yard digging in her garden, she would smell it first. “It’s going to come up
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A good year for peaches

Before I came along, and before my parents opened their small business and got busy with the routine of building a life and a home, they were just two people in love. Their first date was at a pizza place
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The long way home

I remember the summer my dad came home with his new truck, a red pickup. We had just moved from town, from a house that was right behind the courthouse in Asheboro, to the country, to a house that was
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Who Speaks for the Coast?

There’s a line in Associate Editor Michael Graff’s story about the wild horses on the Outer Banks that I can’t get out of my head: “The horse didn’t put that beer can there.” There’s no denying that. Drive along N.C.
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The Start of Something

When I began working at Our State, almost 14 years ago, my job was to answer the phone and open the mail in the circulation department. It was my dream to work for the magazine, and although I aspired to
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A house filled

My parents talk of moving out of their house, the house I grew up in, the house they built 32 years ago.
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Who We Are

The Randolph Room at the Asheboro Public Library is crammed with all the materials anyone would need for historical or genealogical research. File cabinets and bookcases are filled with marriage records and old land deeds, newspapers and church records, library
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