We publish stories on immigrants who become proud North Carolinians, including a once “small Chinese boy dressed in an exact replica of the uniform of a United States Marine. Back in the late 1940s … neither the child … nor the Marines who befriended him could’ve predicted that Charlie would someday stand as a newly minted American citizen under Carolina blue skies.”
To commemorate our 90th anniversary, we’ve compiled a time line that highlights the stories, contributors, and themes that have shaped this magazine — and your view of the Old North State — using nine decades of our own words.
From its northernmost point in Corolla to its southern terminus on Cedar Island, this scenic byway — bound between sound and sea — links the islands and communities of the Outer Banks.
Us? An icon? Well, after 90 years and more than 2,000 issues celebrating North Carolina from mountains to coast, we hope you’ll agree that we’ve earned the title.
After nearly a century — or just a couple of years — these seafood restaurants have become coastal icons, the places we know, love, and return to again and again.
