In the mid-’90s, the black-and-white pages of the magazine burst into color, gradually devoting more real estate to the visual storytelling that becomes a hallmark of Our State. An eight-page “photographic essay” on wildflowers provides an early blueprint for the lush 20-page photo essays eventually featured in every issue. Why the change? As then-editor Scott Smith puts it in October 1996, it’s all about bringing our passion for North Carolina to the page. “No longer is it going to be done largely through words,” he writes. “The pictures will provide an equal partner.”
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.
For the owner of The Country Biscuit, welcoming diners is the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. And diners’ dreams come true when they try the glazed biscuit doughnut holes.
Black bears are the embodiment of North Carolina’s adventurous spirit, immense and wild.
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.
