Memories of hitchhiking across North Carolina — and the United States — in the 1970s never dimmed for this author.
small towns
Photographer H. Lee Waters Focused on the Familiar
For more than half a century, a photographer from Lexington documented the lives of local people, collecting ordinary moments to create an extraordinary legacy.
Hendersonville: A Modern Mountain Town
Not every mountain ’ville has an aquarium and 30 restaurants — plus bears and a forest — on Main Street.
An Essay On Rutherfordton, From A Native Daughter
Anyone who has ever lived in — and left — a small town knows what it’s like to return. In a step-by-step journey of memory, a writer recaptures her hometown and lets the groundswell of emotion remind her how much she loved it there.
