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You don’t have to be Batman to enjoy Bat Cave, North Carolina.

The first thing most people learn about trees is that the number of rings in the trunk reflects the age of the tree.

For the first time in 18 years all five planets visible to the naked eye will be in the sky together throughout June.

A CEO’s best hair day was in seventh grade.He then proceeds to lose it – in more ways than one.

• Carrboro Farmers Market is on the outskirts of historic Chapel Hill and is one of the oldest markets in the state.

L.D.Peeler began his career investing in Kentucky-based Mint-Bottle Soda Company.

Roanoke Island in Dare County, North Carolina is home to the oldest grapevine in the United States – the muscadine.

New year, new you! Several podcasts are available to help improve your well-being and maybe even gain a new perspective: • “How To Fail With Elizabeth Day” celebrates the things that haven’t gone right.

As we adjust to the deep structural changes the pandemic has wrought upon industry economics, perhaps none is more of an existential threat than the Great Resignation.

Edward Teach, better known as the pirate Blackbeard, terrorized the Atlantic in the early 18th century.

The holiday season is for connecting with family, friends and neighbors, and noting all the holidays our loved ones celebrate.

With Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations ahead of us, this is often described as the “most wonderful time of the year.

A barren circle 40 feet in diameter lies in the pine woods of Chatham County, just south of Silver City.

Returning to its first in-person conference following a 2.5-year break, the executive committee of PRSA’s Counselors Academy was looking for a new idea to build momentum and community for its September 2021 Nashville event.

Yes, it is pumpkin-spice-everything season.

Known as “Grey Eagle” to the Cherokee and Catawba peoples, Black Mountain was founded in 1893 as an artist colony.

The summer surge of COVID-19’s Delta variant adds another layer to back-to-school safety. Check these resources to have your kids ready for the fall and beyond:

One day, when I led an in-house agency for The Charlotte Observer, the publisher decided the newspaper needed a new slogan.

If you gained weight during the pandemic, you are not alone.

Are you looking to launch your claim to fame on social media? Or maybe you just want an excuse to get out of the house and enjoy the nice summer weather.

Brown Mountain Lights are a spectacle of mysterious lights that have been spotted moving through valleys in Pisgah National Forest for generations.

National Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22.

It’s got everything you need to know about visiting a U.S.national park.

Some of my friends were elated by the Republicans’ $1.9 trillion tax cut in 2017.

One day in 1960, Wilber Hardee visited the state’s first McDonald’s in 1960, sat in his parked car most of the day, and watched.

Michel Ney was a French military commander and the right-hand man of Napoleon, who dubbed him “the bravest of the brave.

Other than college intramural boxing class or my best friend’s single slug on the second grade playground – I’ve never been in a fistfight.

On Feb. 1, 1960, four Black North Carolina A&T freshmen sat at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro and ordered coffee.

Can we, in the old Latin phrase, launch a modus vivendi – an agreement allowing conflicting parties to coexist in peace?

Snyder Memorial Baptist Church in Fayetteville, NC  has held a Christmas tradition for last 42 years.