North Carolina

By day, the old Pine State Creamery looked harmless enough. That was part of its trick. Sunlight fell on its brick walls…

By day, the battleship lay in the Cape Fear River like a gray mountain that had forgotten how to sink. Tourists came…

You can drive past the turnoff three times and still miss it, even if you’re looking. That’s the first thing they tell…

There are places where the earth does not forget what men have done upon it. That is what old Mr. Harlan Pruitt…

By day, Crybaby Lane looked like any other narrow road in the old folds of North Carolina: two ragged shoulders, a seam…

By dusk, the Blue Ridge had folded itself into layers of bruised velvet, one ridge laid over another like the wings of…

In Wilkesboro, where the hills rise blue and old as bruises against the evening sky, there stands a brick jail that has…

In the depths of North Carolina, nestled in the historic city of Raleigh, proudly stands a relic of a bygone era —…

Just at the commencement of the 20th century, in the enchanting city of Asheville nestled amongst the verdant Blue Ridge Mountains, resided…

As the clock struck midnight on a cold, windswept December night, a weary traveler named Harold Gilbert, clad in his worn brown…

In the heart of the city ravaged by time and teeming with untold histories, Wilmington, lies a looming, awe-inspiring manor, the whitespire…

To modest tourists, the Pisgah Inn may be just another roadside place of rest. A charming, comfortable hostelry stationed in the bucolic…