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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Rebecca Woltz |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
A sweet, fruity scent mingles with the smoke of the fire crackling in a covered outdoor area on Dorsey and Brittany Kordick’s farm. In a long steel pan, apple juice from several heirloom varieties boils down as mother and daughter skim foam off the top to make apple cider syrup. Dorsey grew up climbing apple trees on her family’s farm in Connecticut, and as an adult, she always had fruit trees and bushes.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Drew Perry |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
On the grill the night before:4 bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts (about 3 pounds or more total)2 bell peppers, halved and seeded3 poblano peppers, halved and seededGrill chicken on indirect heat for about 45 minutes, to about 165º — done enough to shred by hand the next day, but cooking to exact temperature is not terribly important. It’ll simmer tomorrow for a few hours. Why bone-in, skin-on? Flavor. Blister peppers on direct heat, then move to indirect heat until soft.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Lauren Eberle |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
Memorizing your address can be a childhood milestone. For the Harris sisters, the North Carolina roads they called home are more than memories — they’re woven into the bold, bespoke patterns of the wall coverings and fabrics made by the sisters’ company, House of Harris. Eager for a creative collaboration, Charlotte Harris Lucas and Liz Harris Carroll conceived of their company in 2017 while on a trip to Paris.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Jimmy Tomlin |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
This place may not be what you think it is. Some call it North Carolina’s own version of Stonehenge, the mysterious, prehistoric stone circle in southern England that has fascinated visitors for thousands of years. Ours consists of standing stones, but it was not inspired by — nor meant to resemble — its more famous counterpart. Others call it “Hartley Henge,” as a well-intentioned tribute to the late John D. Hartley — the architect and builder who designed this space nearly 30 years ago.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Jo Grey |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
It’s midday on the eve of Thanksgiving, and The Rosebriar should be hopping. Except that the parking lot looks empty, the lights are off, and the front door is locked. Instead of its regular lunch service, the Albemarle restaurant is serving the community today by preparing seasonal, carryout sides.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet |Brad Campbell
Even today, 25 years after he left town, nobody likes Floyd. He was a real home-wrecker — literally. The Category 2 hurricane destroyed approximately 8,000 homes in eastern North Carolina. The Bridgers family, owners of The Cloth Barn on Ash Street in Goldsboro, has a deeper relationship with Floyd than most. After the hurricane blew through town, Stoney Creek, usually a genial trickle of a waterway, began to swell. It spilled. It raged. It covered the cars in The Cloth Barn’s parking lot.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | T. Edward Nickens |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
It was a tough call between the emu appetizer — braised meat in adobo, charred salsa verde, queso fresco, and avocado crema — and the mixed game grill, tonight a global confluence of hanging beef tenderloin, Hungarian bison sausage, and venison sausage. Thank goodness the boar and pimento cheese sausage wasn’t on the menu that night, or I’d still be sitting there, trying to make up my mind. Which wouldn’t be a bad thing.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Rebecca Woltz |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
Tom Lane and Victoria Whited stare at a satellite image of Butner, taken a decade ago, that hangs in Butner Town Hall. A map of a World War II-era Army training camp overlays the image. Lane and Whited trace the streets on the map, which line up perfectly with those of the aerial photograph. Town Hall, on Central Avenue, is right about where base headquarters was. Before Camp Butner, there was no town here, only farmland.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Katie King |Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet
Nobody does comfort food quite like “Mama.” With her friendly and funny personality — and, of course, her cooking — Lucia Stridiron has earned the term of endearment from everyone who eats at the colorful restaurant that she owns with her husband, William. In 2016 the Stridirons started a food truck named after a restaurant that William’s mother opened in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1967. Lucia took the truck to Camp Lejeune every day, building relationships with the Marines there.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Elizabeth Hudson |Billy Warden |Genie Safriet |Brad Campbell
Just before 8 a.m., on December 7, 1941, Japan bombs Pearl Harbor. At home in my native Wilmington, at age 7, I learn about the attack while listening to a Washington Redskins game. In the war years to come, it seems like a man from every other house in my Forest Hills neighborhood serves in uniform. Five die.
