½ pound butter
6 tablespoons powdered sugar
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons water
2 cups pecans, chopped
Cream butter, sugar, flour, vanilla, and water. Add chopped nuts. Form in oblong drops, and bake 40 to 45 minutes at 350°. Sift additional powdered sugar; drop hot cookies in, and roll around until coated. Lay on wax paper to cool.
To commemorate our 90th anniversary, we’ve compiled a time line that highlights the stories, contributors, and themes that have shaped this magazine — and your view of the Old North State — using nine decades of our own words.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
Us? An icon? Well, after 90 years and more than 2,000 issues celebrating North Carolina from mountains to coast, we hope you’ll agree that we’ve earned the title.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
