It’s one of early America’s enduring mysteries: What happened to the 100 English colonists who vanished from their Roanoke Island outpost in 1587? Now archaeologists have discovered new evidence that at least one part of the lost colony may have ended on the Chowan River in Bertie County, some 50 miles from Roanoke Island. Dozens of artifacts, including bale seals [...]
Raleigh photographer Jack Morton will share stories about his grandfather, Hugh Morton on Thursday, November 10, at the North Carolina Museum of History in conjunction with the free exhibit, “Photographs by Hugh Morton, An Uncommon Perspective.” The exhibit provides a tour of North Carolina’s past as recorded by Hugh Morton, probably the best promoter North Carolina ever had. He died [...]
From Native Americans to land speculators and conservationists, people have long been drawn to Mount Mitchell, namesake of Elisha Mitchell. A geologist, Presbyterian minister, and educator, he left his mark forever on our mountain skyline by proving Mount Mitchell the highest peak east of the Mississippi. A professor at the University of North Carolina for 32 years, Mitchell was working [...]
In the spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt slipped his Secret Service detail to camp out in Yosemite with John Muir, Scottish-American naturalist and preservationist. Camping out a second and third night with Muir resulted in the creation of our national park system: 18 national monuments, 5 national parks, and 159 national forests, conserving more than 230 million acres, larger [...]
There’s something special about North Carolina waterfalls. Our bordering states… South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia… have some great falls, but none reach the pinnacle of North Carolina waterfalls. For one thing, we have so many. Our state has more waterfalls than any of the other border states. And they are so beautiful to view. If you get close enough [...]
The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) will name its park in honor of Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park, in recognition of the family's unparalleled contributions to the NCMA and its Park over the past 20 years. As longtime supporters of NCMA, the Goodnights have acted as passionate advocates for the Park as well as for the Museum’s collection [...]
By Loring Mortensen I remember a time when, due to the state alcohol laws, there was only one lonely brewery in North Carolina, the Weeping Radish. Alcohol laws back then made it very difficult to start a brewery, especially when the main rule was to have a restaurant on the premises. That is what is exciting about the way breweries [...]
A dance teacher, a neuroscientist, and a group of Alzheimer’s patients meet at a barre. That’s not the setup for a joke, but rather the basis of a serious pilot study investigating the effects of improvisational dance on people with cognitive impairment. Christina Hugenschmidt, assistant professor, Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and Christina Soriano, associate professor [...]
If you want to take advantage of all that the Triangle offers and, at the same time, relax on a visit to a small, artsy village, the small town of Hillsborough should be your destination. Just minutes away from Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh, Hillsborough is close enough to encourage a stop-by where you can unwind on café-lined streets, listen [...]
These are anxious times; times that make it seem the Four Horsemen may be galloping ever closer on the not-so-distant horizon. Sally Allen, literary guru and author of Unlocking Worlds: A Reading Companion for Book Lovers, offers a list of 10 classics to read when the weight of the world and a bleak news cycle get you down. The Iliad [...]
