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Travel

Downtown: New Bern

One of North Carolina’s oldest cities is bursting with history — but there are plenty of new places to discover here, too.

by Jodi Helmer
Features

A Holiday Poem for the Ages

Seventy years ago, Elinor Hawkins’s professor asked her to choose a book she’d collect for the rest of her life. She picked “The Night Before Christmas.” Today, she has more than 1,000 copies.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Eastern

Baker’s Kitchen is Home to Delicious Breakfasts — and Butter Syrup

Baker’s Kitchen has weathered storms — literal and metaphorical — to keep its community in baked goods and breakfast foods (with a side of butter syrup).

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Sponsored

Meet the Maker: Shop Class

In New Bern, a longtime woodworker opens his workshop to the community.

by Katie Schanze
Drink Local

June 2018 Beer Event Guide

Whitewater rafting to yoga to kickboxing: This month, beer is getting paired with just about everything.

by K McKay
Guides

10 North Carolina Ghost Tours to Go on This Fall

Get spooked in Winston-Salem and search for apparitions in the Appalachians. Here’s our guide to ghost tours around the state.

by Katie Quine
History

The History of the North Carolina Gazette, Our State’s First Newspaper

North Carolina was one of the last colonies to have a printer's office, opening operations in New Bern in 1749. Two years later, on August 9, 1751, the first issue of the North Carolina Gazette was born.

by Sara Pequeño
Local Landmark: New Bern's Bayard Wootten House
Home & Garden

Local Landmark: New Bern’s Bayard Wootten House

In a clapboard house on East Front Street, a pioneering female photographer began a distinguished career, one that included taking aerial shots from a Wright brothers plane.

by Louise Jarvis Flynn
City Portrait: New Bern
Eastern

City Portrait: New Bern

Where two rivers meet, North Carolina’s first capital bridges the distance between past and present.

by Jason Frye
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