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Back in the day

Back In The Day

How LabCorp Got Its Start in North Carolina

How a Fortune 500 company rose from humble beginnings in Burlington.

by Jeremy Markovich
Back In The Day

The Sky is Her Limit

The first woman to earn an engineering degree from NC State, Katharine Stinson rose to an amazing career as a flight engineer.

by Jeremy Markovich
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

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

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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