For generations, shove poles have helped boaters navigate the shallow waters of Currituck, Albemarle, and Pamlico sounds.
The Battle of the Crater
The Union Army’s plan to explode a mine succeeds, but the confederate counterattack proves more deadly. (Volume 4, Part 7)
Gatsby’s Asheville
Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald defined the ’20s — the boom and bust, the roar and crash — a period that is easily reimagined in this timeless North Carolina city.
Corolla’s Castle: The Whalehead Club
Today, Whalehead in historic Corolla stands quietly. But in the Roaring ’20s, when a wealthy industrialist and his wife built their dream home here on the Outer Banks, the Art Nouveau manse hummed — thanks to the couple’s reveling guests and the house’s electric power, which wouldn’t reach the rest of the island for 40 more years.
The Civil War: General Wild’s Raid
Brig. Gen. Edward Augustus Wild raises an army of former slaves who take aim at Southern plantations. (Volume 4, Part 6)
Dance Till Dawn
In Rocky Mount, June Germans were the high-society highlight of the year, transforming tobacco warehouses and bringing big bands, national press, and even a movie star to town.
Under a Carolina Moon
During World War II, a chance meeting led to a long-distance romance forever preserved in letters.
