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As the giving season kicks off with Giving Tuesday on Nov. 29, Promising Pages is seeking donations to help end Charlotte’s book desert.

You’ll want to take it slow when you drive on Charlotte Motor Speedway during the annual Speedway Christmas.

In the 1930s, a local distributor of Shell Oil created a new way for its brand to stand out as the top choice for car owners to fuel up.

Known as the first child born in the New World, Virginia Dare may not have disappeared with her Roanoke kinsmen in 1590.

The Village of Fairhaven is open once more for the 29th Annual Carolina Renaissance Festival featuring jousting knights, falconry, mermaids, fairies and more.

Footsteps in empty hallways, ghostly apparitions, lights flickering on and off and things that go bump in the nights.

Everyone knows to call 911 in an emergency.

Looking for a pristine mountain escape? Chetola Resort & Spa in Blowing Rock, North Carolina is offering a bevy of end-of-summer lodging packages: • Midweek Package: Special rate when staying midweek, plus a $50 resort credit.

In addition to the tallest mountain and tallest sand dune system on the East Coast, North Carolina is also home to the oldest trees in eastern North America.

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.