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Living in North Carolina

Rice Among the Hmong in McDowell County

Carolina Gold is making a comeback in fields out east, but here are two sides to North Carolina’s rice revival.

by Kathleen Purvis
Restaurants

McDowell Local Dishes Up a Foothills Feast

In McDowell County, there’s a cardinal rule of eating local: Food should always be fun.

by Drew Perry
Linville Caverns
October 2013

Linville Caverns

The bats living in the caves under Humpback Mountain scare some people, but not Sarah Davis. She owns the darkness and has come to terms with what’s in it.

by Our State Staff
History

Hell and High Water: The Flood of 1916

The flood of 1916 broke every record in the book. The death and destruction it caused in Western North Carolina defined flooding for an entire generation of survivors, and their stories live on nearly 100 years later.

by Heidi Coryell Williams

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