Born on Christmas Day, the founder of the Saint Nicholas Christmas Foundation makes a list and checks it twice so that everyone’s stocking is stuffed for the season.
North Carolina’s Santa School
Before the beard and belly laugh, becoming the Man in Red requires a little magic — and plenty of training — in Charlotte, where Santas go to earn their ho-ho-ho.
Old Christmas in Rodanthe
For more than 200 years, villagers in the Outer Banks community have celebrated Christmas on their own terms.
Of Literacy and Gingerbread
In Wilkesboro, an annual gingerbread house festival raises funds — and hope — for the Wilkes Literacy Foundation.
Leading the Fearrington Village Singers
In a Chatham County barn filled with music and light, a choir director’s Christmas concert becomes a love song to the mother who helped him develop his gift.
Resilience in the Ebersole Holly Garden
Once left to the weeds, a world-class holly collection in Pinehurst is thriving again, thanks to the determination of those who believe in a second season.
O Come, All Ye Faithful
At St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, the season begins not with shopping or songs, but with the clang of chains and the rise of an iron wreath.
Starstruck in Pisgah National Forest
A writer fulfills a childhood fascination with the cosmos by venturing to Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute to glimpse the universe and make a wish.
Christmas on Portsmouth Island
More than 50 years after the last residents of Portsmouth Island moved away, a descendant of the once-busy shipping village decks the halls in their honor.
