By Linda Catoe Changing leaves and milder temperatures must be autumn, and with the winds of change, comes the call of the North Carolina mountains. For hikers, this means a variety of choices for day trips and longer hike-throughs. When planning your hiking and vista viewing jaunts, Linda Catoe recommends stopping in at some or all of these eateries for [...]
Amtrak and the N.C. Department of Transportation have teamed up to give cyclists a chance to carry their bikes onboard the trains. Amtrak announced last week that the Carolinian and Piedmont trains running between Raleigh and Charlotte will now offer passengers walk-up bike service. Customers simply hand their bikes to Amtrak crewmembers, and the employees hang them carefully on racks [...]
A $3.9 million grant from the Templeton Religion Trust has been awarded Wake Forest University to fund a search for moral superstars. The Beacon Project, a three-year initiative to find and define the morally exceptional and better understand how to improve moral character, will be led by Wake Forest professor of psychology William F. Fleeson. The team includes R. Michael [...]
When Jimmy Carter revealed during a recent press conference that he has four spots of cancer on his brain, a reporter noted that it was impossible to feel sorry for him. “Feeling sorry would have felt like an insult, a denial of the virtues he showed and the faith he didn’t need to speak because it was there.” It was [...]
The Underground Railroad was not underground nor was it a railroad. It was an informal network of secret hideouts that helped an estimated 100,000 slaves escape from their southern plantation masters. It is a thrilling story of courage and resourcefulness that ended in 1863 when President Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation. The following article is by the late Allen Trelease, [...]
The Forsyth Public Library launched its annual community-wide read, On the Same Page, on Saturday, September 12, during the Bookmark Festival of Books at the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. Adults, old and young, are invited to read Nathaniel Philbrick’s historical thriller, In the Heart of the Sea, the true story of an early 19th century New England whaling [...]
Harol Marshall Harol Marshall, author of nine novels, six mysteries, one short story anthology, and two thrillers. prefers wine to beer but her husband, Gerald Meisner, appreciates both. I sat at my writing desk absorbed in researching background material for my latest mystery novel when my husband walked into the study and marched over to the file cabinet. Deciding to [...]
The dazzling mountain vistas that surround Old Edwards Inn are unchanged since the summer of 1878, when John Norton opened Highlands’ first boarding house for visitors. Railroads were being built throughout the expanding United States, and Norton knew the mountains would be a magnet for tourists seeking its healing climate. Today the splashing waterfalls and wooded forests are unchanged; however, [...]
Board member and retired Admiral Steve Glass obtained 501(c)(3) status for the Park’s foundation. He credits the efforts of the board and many Cary volunteers with bringing the Park to fruition. Veterans’ Freedom Park at 1513 Harrison Parkway in Cary is a symbol of the cost and value of freedom but it is also a story of how a community [...]
When a new genre of American music, called funk, emerged during the 1960s, not many Tar Heels realized the considerable contribution of eastern North Carolina musicians to the new style. Musical genius Nathaniel “Nat” Jones of Kinston and other African American musical pioneers from eastern counties helped to create funk when they joined up with James Brown in 1964, transforming [...]
