Take a scroll through time — and get a peek at how our design has changed over the last 90 years — as you browse a selection of beautiful covers.
1930s
April 23, 1938 — The Blowing Rock
1940s
June 2, 1945 — Wrightsville Beach
1950s
September 13, 1952 — The Blue Ridge Parkway, with Grandfather Mountain in the distance
April 10, 1954
1960s
July 1, 1966 — Old Baldy Lighthouse on Bald Head Island
April 15, 1969 — The Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1970s
August 1979 — Hang gliding off the first peak of Grandfather Mountain
1980s
April 1985
1990s
May 1991 — Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock
2000s
February 2002 — The Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway
January 2003 — The Mile-High Swinging Bridge on Grandfather Mountain
2010s
July 2010
October 2010
July 2012
November 2016
July 2019
2020s
August 2021