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Sep 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet |Brad Campbell
Enjoy an exciting day of shopping at Phillips Place, Charlotte’s finest open-air shopping and dining destination, with exclusive gift cards to several stores including alice + olivia, Jenni Kayne, Peter Millar, and more! Plus, pamper yourself with a blowout or spa service at Phillips Place’s Modern Salon & Spa during your visit.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Molly Harrison |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet
SPONSORED BY “When people come to the Outer Banks, they think they are coming to the beach. They don’t realize that they’ve come to one of the wildest places on the East Coast,” Jamie Moore says, who owns and operates Outer Banks Adventures. Through Outer Banks Adventures, Moore leads people on airboat tours of the local waterways and guided bus tours through the pocosin wetlands of Alligator River National Refuge.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet |Brad Campbell
RECIPE ADAPTED BY LYNN WELLSThis classic custard pie is sweet, buttery, and simply delicious. MAKE ITRECIPE BY SHERI CASTLEA Southern interpretation of an English trifle, banana pudding knows no season, only devotion. MAKE IT RECIPE BY LYNN WELLSA buttermilk soak promises fried chicken that’s crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. MAKE ITRECIPE BY LYNN WELLSA simple recipe with a spicy surprise: Winston-Salem’s own Texas Pete.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Jason Frye |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet
Asheville, 1895: Winter in the Northeast is a misery, and the friends and family of George Vanderbilt are keen to trade bitter cold and chilly ocean winds for the temperate mountains of North Carolina. Over the past six years, a grand estate that George calls Biltmore has emerged from the hills and woods near Asheville, and soon this hand-picked group of guests will be the first to celebrate here.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Katie Schanze |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Brad Campbell
Oksana Shchelgachova can’t sleep. Not yet. She’s up late, the scent of chocolate wafting through her kitchen as she folds together layers of butter and dough. She’s baking airy chocolate sponge cake and whipping up fluffy mousse and melting Belgian chocolate that she’ll then cool and craft into delicate flourishes that she promptly freezes. The pastry artist and chocolatier will be up early, too.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet |Brad Campbell
Wendy and Jerry Lewis were enjoying a quiet afternoon on their front porch in Old Fort with Wendy’s grandmother Mary Golden Piercy, affectionately known as “Gogo.” The only sound they heard was the breeze rustling their potted ferns — that is, until Jerry’s phone suddenly sang with notifications. Earlier that day, Jerry had posted a photo of Wendy’s first batch of cinnamon rolls for sale.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Jimmy Tomlin |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet
Chuck Cummings can’t help but chuckle at the wayward tourists who call to tell him that they can’t seem to find his business, Country Time Swings in Maggie Valley, nor the huge red rocking chair that sits out front. “How in the world can you not see an 11-foot-high, safety-red rocking chair?” asks Cummings, who has owned the business for 25 years. How, indeed.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Robin Sutton Anders |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet
Rising from Dillsboro’s grassy valley, a three-story farmhouse cuts into the western North Carolina sky. The 1908 house is now home to the Appalachian Women’s Museum. In celebration of the annual Airing of the Quilts festival, colorful blankets hang from the white wraparound porch, swaying in the fresh mountain breeze. When museum volunteer Dave Russell first attended the festival five years ago, he felt like a kid again. “I fell in love with the place,” he says.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Alan Hodge |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet
12 Bones Smokehouse, a beloved barbecue joint near the banks of the French Broad River, has gone through many changes: location, owners, a new brewery. But no matter where it goes or what’s on the menu, the tables are always full and the ’cue always tender.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Katie Kane |Billy Warden |C.A. Carlson |Genie Safriet
About 2,400 feet beneath Humpback Mountain in McDowell County, Steven Mistichelli leads a tour group through Linville Caverns with his flashlight. Stalactites hang down in various shapes and sizes, almost a mirror image of the Blue Ridge skyline that rises about half a mile above. As he rounds a corner, the low ceilings — on average about seven or eight feet tall — jump to 23 feet. “This is what we call our cathedral room,” he says.
