On paper, this championship game looked to be a showdown between two of the best big men ever: Wake Forest’s Tim Duncan and UNC’s Rasheed Wallace. But Deacons guard Randolph Childress was having the tournament of a lifetime, finishing with a tourney-record 107 points, earning the MVP award, and landing a 10-footer with less than five seconds in overtime to win the game.
Split-rail fences don’t shout “keep out.” They lean, they shift, they invite. And in western North Carolina, they remind us that some lines are meant to hold, not harden.
Each May, spring climbs nearly 3,000 feet to the seat of Alleghany County. Here, as the rhododendrons blush, a beloved mountain town welcomes visitors with its food, art, and flourish of color and creativity.
Brief but delicious, soft-shell crab season is cherished by diners as well as the folks who work around the clock to put these native pinchers on our plates.
When it comes to poultry, the best is raised close to home.
