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History

Riding My Thumb

Memories of hitchhiking across North Carolina — and the United States — in the 1970s never dimmed for this author.

by Philip Gerard
Photographer H. Lee Waters Focused on the Familiar
History

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.

by Lisa Sorg
Hendersonville: A Modern Mountain Town
Western

Hendersonville: A Modern Mountain Town

Not every mountain ’ville has an aquarium and 30 restaurants — plus bears and a forest — on Main Street.

by Jeremy Markovich
Western

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.

by Susan Stafford Kelly

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