Kernersville
A place in between two bigger places, Kernersville has its own, peculiar style — like with the old home Körner’s Folly — to keep it from being lost in the middle.
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Travel
Along the Way
Our summer vacations often include stops at roadside stands for an edible souvenir.
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Natural Beauty
At Gardens of the Blue Ridge in Newland — the oldest licensed nursery in the state — visitors encounter humble, unassuming plants, but each native species carries on the legacy of this land.
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Lake Lure
The magnetic mountain town’s beauty pulls people in and then holds on.
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North Carolina’s Coast
Explore North Carolina’s coastline, and enjoy exclusive videos and stories, presented by Our State and the UNC Coastal Studies Institute on Roanoke Island.
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Never the Twain
Our State asks: East or West. Where do you stand? Both the mountains and the coast can inspire our devotion. But most of us, if we’re honest with ourselves, will own up to an affection for one end of the state or the other.
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The Town: Murphy
Although it is closer to the state capitals of five other states than it is to its own, the remote mountain town breathes with the trademark down-home kindness that makes it undeniably North Carolina.
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The Town: Manteo
The first settlement was lost. But in the 400 years since a colony vanished, just about everybody who’s moved here has come to stay, giving this small community on Roanoke Island a permanence that is generations deep.
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The Grape: Yadkin Valley
As the first vines began to grow in the Yadkin Valley, few people believed European wine grapes would make it in the clay loam of the foothills and Piedmont. A few pioneers took a chance, however, and a region’s farming heritage lives on.
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The Grape: Duplin Winery
Using the thick-skinned muscadines that thrive in the heat of their eastern North Carolina homeland, one gritty family built the biggest winery in the state, one sweet smile and taste at a time.
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The Catch: Brook Trout
The Brook Trout is a homegrown Southerner. While humans transported other versions of trout to our waters, the brook has been here since the ice age, defying anglers, predators, and time.
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