Podcasts
Away Message’s Season 3, Episode 3: Stop Making Cents
Did a black woman from Mooresville create the image of President Roosevelt on the dime? A search for the truth reveals the facts that matter, and the facts that don’t.
Jeremy Markovich
Podcasts
Away Message’s Season 3, Episode 2: A Rescue In The Gorge
On May 7, 2016, a hiker fell hundreds of feet down a mountainside, and ended up in a treacherous spot in North Carolina’s most rugged place. This is the story of a rescue that took hours and a recovery that took months — one that shows how unforgiving the wilderness can be.
Features
The Cowman of Caswell County
A trained engineer with a love of farming found his calling in rolling green hills and a herd of white, French cows.
History
The Python with a Purple Heart
How a soldier rescued a Burmese python from a dinner table during the Vietnam War and brought it back to North Carolina.
Podcasts
Away Message’s Season 3, Episode 1: A Different Kind of Red-Blue Divide
Some fourth-graders helped introduce a bill to designate the strawberry as North Carolina’s official state fruit. Then the adults got involved.
Podcasts
Away Message Podcast
Our State’s podcast goes the distance to reveal hard-to-find stories across North Carolina.
History
A Pirate’s Life for NC
In the 1950s and ’60s, the Dare Coast Pirates Jamboree brought dancing, fish fries, and elaborate costumes to the Outer Banks each spring — until things got a little too rowdy.
Eastern
A Fish Worth Fighting For
In the creeks and rivers of the Coastal Plain, shad are harbingers of spring. For the folks in one tiny town, their annual Shad Festival also heralds a renewed spirit of resilience.
Drink Local
All Aboard: Tap Hopper Tours
Tap Hopper Tours started as a way to help beer lovers explore Greensboro. Then, its founders discovered something that brewers really needed.