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Columns

If You Give a Kid a Goat Cart

A discovery of archival photographs begged the question: Did everyone have a goat cart in the 1930s?

by Jeremy Markovich
Columns

The Outer Banks Society That Believes the Wright Brothers Never Flew

The Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society was created in 1959 because, in the words of its founders, they were bored.

by Jeremy Markovich
History

Space Seeds: Moon Trees in Western North Carolina

Back in 1971, astronaut and former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper Stuart Roosa carried more than 400 seeds into space with him on Apollo 14. Two of those seeds found a new home in North Carolina.

by Jeremy Markovich
History

Fergus’ Ark vs. USS North Carolina

On October 2, 1961, the USS North Carolina hit Fergus’ Ark seafood restaurant while docking in Wilmington.

by Jeremy Markovich
History

The Governor’s Wet Suit

In 1965, North Carolina Gov. Luther H. Hodges showed off locally-made products in an unusual way.

by Jeremy Markovich
History

Peahead Walker and the Fake Wake Fib

One of Wake Forest’s most successful football coaches is remembered for winning — and for his colorful personality.

by Jeremy Markovich
History

Remembering Winston-Salem’s Swimmin’ Hole

Crystal Lake opened in 1925 and was a welcome reprieve from the summer heat — and only slightly dangerous.

by Jeremy Markovich
History

Saving, the Family Business

In 1899, Erasmus Midgett saved 10 people from a shipwreck off the North Carolina coast — and started a family tradition.

by Jeremy Markovich
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.

by Jeremy Markovich
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