Steer wrestling, a practice credited to legendary cowboy and rodeo star Bill Pickett, usually involves leaping onto a steer from the back of a specially trained horse. At the Madison
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Dear Our State family, Next week, on October 18, the November issue of Our State magazine will be mailed to more than 170,000 subscribers. We’ve been working on this issue,
Dear Our State family, Next week, on October 18, the November issue of Our State magazine will be mailed to more than 170,000 subscribers. We’ve been working on this issue,
Dear Our State family, Next week, on October 18, the November issue of Our State magazine will be mailed to more than 170,000 subscribers. We’ve been working on this issue,
As we watch the heartbreaking news from Eastern North Carolina, we are reminded that the places where we find peace and beauty can become destructive and deadly. Our hearts and prayers are with the residents in the places hardest hit by rising flood waters.
Next week, on October 18, the November issue of Our State magazine will be mailed to more than 170,000 subscribers. We’ve been working on this issue, which is devoted to the rivers of North Carolina, for more than a year. At press time, Hurricane Matthew was a tropical storm in the Caribbean; none of us anticipated the devastation that would hit eastern North Carolina.
As you’ve come to expect from Our State, the stories in this issue are poignant reflections on what our rivers mean to North Carolinians — from one writer’s 200-mile journey down the Cape Fear, to a Methodist minister’s return to Hertford and his beloved Perquimans River, to a celebration of the Tar River’s role in reviving Rocky Mount Mills.
Today, as we watch the heartbreaking news from Lumberton, from Fayetteville, from Kinston, we are reminded that the places where we find peace and beauty can become destructive and deadly. Our hearts and prayers are with the residents — our friends — in Beaufort, Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Edgecombe, Hoke, Johnston, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, and Robeson, the places hardest hit by rising flood waters.
We chose to devote an entire issue to our rivers because of their power to bring families and communities together. In the coming days we’ll brace for the crest, and then, once again, come together — this time, to rebuild.
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This tiny city block in downtown Greensboro once had a gigantic reputation. Not so much for its charbroiled beef patties — though they, too, were plentiful — but for its colorful characters and their wild shenanigans.
In the 1950s, as Americans hit freshly paved roads in shiny new cars during the postwar boom, a new kind of restaurant took shape: the drive-in. From those first thin patties to the elaborate gourmet hamburgers of today, North Carolina has spent the past 80 years making burger history.