From her picking style to her unlikely path to fame, the folk music heroine from Carrboro always did things her own way.
Elaine O’Neil’s Textile Art
In Chapel Hill, cotton serves an unexpected purpose.
James Adams Floating Theatre Provided a Big Show on the Sounds
“Show Boat” was the one of the most popular musicals ever made. And it all started when writer Edna Ferber fell in love with the floating theater in Bath in 1925.
North Carolina Fiddle Festivals
Fiddlers’ conventions have long brought North Carolina communities together.
Cigar-Box Fiddles
A craftsman in Asheville combines music, art, and history to give cigar boxes unexpected new life.
The Man Who Taught a Fiddler to Play Guitar
Before he learned to play fiddle, the South’s most famous fiddler learned to play guitar. Charlie Daniels has never forgotten that moment, or the friend who taught him.
Catawba Valley
Where the Catawba River flows through Lincoln and Catawba counties, an ancient art form thrives.
A Carolina Collage: The Wells Stockyard Flea Market
For decades, eclectic bits and pieces from around the world have found their way to Wallace. But they never stay long.
“Red Clay Reader” Rooted in Southern Soil
In the ’60s, a professor and her students created a magazine for writers rooted in Southern soil.
