Don't bother with desserts that require hours of prep and baking. This Southern favorite is as simple to make as it is to enjoy.
july 2014
Thunder Road
The heart-racing, thrill-seeking, breathtaking story of North Carolina’s favorite roller coaster.
Beach Ball: The Morehead City Marlins
College baseball players from across the country come to small Southern towns like Morehead City for a taste of the big leagues.
To Be Rather Than to Seem: North Carolina’s State Motto
Even though our state motto is Latin, nothing is lost in translation.
James Adams Floating Theatre Provided a Big Show on the Sounds
“Show Boat” was the one of the most popular musicals ever made. And it all started when writer Edna Ferber fell in love with the floating theater in Bath in 1925.
The Battle of the Crater
The Union Army’s plan to explode a mine succeeds, but the confederate counterattack proves more deadly. (Volume 4, Part 7)
Gatsby’s Asheville
Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald defined the ’20s — the boom and bust, the roar and crash — a period that is easily reimagined in this timeless North Carolina city.
Corolla’s Castle: The Whalehead Club
Today, Whalehead in historic Corolla stands quietly. But in the Roaring ’20s, when a wealthy industrialist and his wife built their dream home here on the Outer Banks, the Art Nouveau manse hummed — thanks to the couple’s reveling guests and the house’s electric power, which wouldn’t reach the rest of the island for 40 more years.
A Midsummer Classic
Here is July 1: the 182nd day of the year, the halfway point, the midsection of 2014, with 183 days left.