Whisk together two hotels, three restaurants, and two risk-averse personalities. Add a passion for food and the environment, and you have a recipe for romance.
Snappy Lunch’s Famous Pork Chop Sandwich
It’s the only Mount Airy business ever mentioned during the eight-year run of The Andy Griffith Show. And it’s not only the show that endures. The celebrity-endorsed pork chop sandwich at Snappy Lunch has a storied résumé all its own.
arcBARKS: Bakers for Barkers
Far more than mere ingredients go into a two-inch treat for pooches at arcBARKS, a Greensboro bakery.
Is Bigfoot’s Backyard in the Uwharrie National Forest?
A fuzzy video of a furry beast with a sweet tooth has spawned an industry all its own in the Uwharries. Many in Montgomery County believe. Some worldwide believe. But do you?
A Kid (Still) Needs Camp
YMCA camps — Camp Sea Gull (for boys), Camp Seafarer (for girls) and Camp Hanes (for both) — fill a new generation of campers with a season of memories.
Always on Sunday: Visiting Oakdale Cemetery
Designed as a park to encourage visitation, Wilmington’s Oakdale Cemetery was the first cemetery in North Carolina to be part of a national Rural Garden Cemetery Movement, a place for family to celebrate the living as well as the dead.
Bernie Harberts: The Mule Rider
Bored with sailing the open seas alone for five years, one man decided to cross his home state in a manner unlike any other. And then he kept on going.
The Ride South
By wagon and on foot, settlers traveled the Great Wagon Road southward in search of land and prosperity, spurring the expansion of North Carolina.
Barns Reborn
For 10 years, Roger Dinger looked past old barns as he surveyed land for development and tried not to think about the buildings turning to dust. Today, he salvages their wood and hardware and turns them into works of art in his Siler City workshop.
