Leave it to the experts at this Elizabeth City oyster bar, where every October the usual crowd returns hungry for meaty mollusks.
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Traveling North Carolina’s Swamps
Swamps keep their secret wonders hidden well. Under their murky black water, behind impenetrable tangles of vines, and among towering cypress draped in curtains of Spanish moss, adventure lurks.
The Muffin Man
Andy Montero built his Elizabeth City restaurant on baskets of pastries.
Carolina Cowboy
The Tar Heel State helps Bobby Plough find his calling.
Lighter Than Air
When German U-boats began to hound Allied forces, the Navy took to the sky and constructed an air station in Weeksville that built blimps — soft, quiet fighters that helped turn the Battle of the Atlantic and lift the nation to victory.
