Andy Griffth picked up the phone for this feature — it would’ve been in-person, but he made the call from Hawaii. The headline fondly refers to him as “North Carolina’s favorite son,” and the Mount Airy native talks about how a part of him always wishes he was back home, no matter where he is in the world. As the story states, “You can take the boy out of North Carolina but not for too long a stretch. And don’t even think about taking North Carolina out of the boy.”
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.
