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april 2014

Arts

Catawba Valley

Where the Catawba River flows through Lincoln and Catawba counties, an ancient art form thrives.

by Oren Eades
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Recipes

Tupelo Honey’s Buttermilk Biscuits

Try some sweet fruit preserves with these soft buttermilk biscuits.

by Community Cookbook Series
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Arts

“Red Clay Reader” Rooted in Southern Soil

In the ’60s, a professor and her students created a magazine for writers rooted in Southern soil.

by Sarah Perry
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Arts

The Red Clay Ramblers

Shaped by the ever-changing music scene in Chapel Hill, the Ramblers have always been experimenters.

by Corbie Hill
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Features

Not Just Any Ol’ Hound

When it came time to pick a state dog, the Plott family knew there was only one canine in the hunt.

by Tommy Tomlinson
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Columns

What These Words Can Do

In eliminating poetry from our lives, we miss discovering a pursuit of pleasure that we didn’t even know we needed.

by Elizabeth Hudson
Arts & Culture

Hoopskirt Dreams: Wilmington’s Azalea Festival Belles

During the Azalea Festival in Wilmington, the city’s Azalea Belles follow a slow, graceful path to the past.

by Tim Bass
Western

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?

by Jeri Rowe
Black Mountain College
History

The Mythic School of the Mountain: Black Mountain College

Brilliant artists, poets, and intellectuals established Black Mountain College’s reputation as a bastion of innovative thinkers. The college’s brief, obscure existence — and its avant-garde “Happening” — sealed its legend.

by Joseph Bathanti
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