Green-thumbed readers rejoice to find a new column: “Tar Heel Gardener” by L.A. Jackson. From the first entry — on saving seeds from this year’s harvest for next year’s garden — “Tar Heel Gardener” is a hit, and it continues to run for 20 years. Jackson joins a growing chorus of beloved voices, including longtime contributor Billy Arthur, food columnist Edie Low, and quiz author Alan Hodge, then a reference assistant for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public Library. “Like the dozens of people he helps every day,” we write, introducing Hodge in February 1991, “we’ve found him to be a walking fountain of information.”
North Carolina is known for many things, but nothing more important this week than the qualities of endurance, resilience, and hope.
By day, this adventure park in the Triad is a fall festival to die for. By night, the undead come alive for Halloween tricks. Welcome to one man’s vision of year-round merrymaking.
North Carolina’s border dances across the mountains as it traces four different states. Life here can be more remote, but good neighbors are never far away.
The Blue Ridge Parkway stands out among America’s national parks: Unfurling across six Appalachian mountain chains, it connects dozens of rural communities and binds together generations of families through shared memories.
