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Jan 30, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | T. Edward Nickens |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King
I was clambering my way up a briar-clad creek bank, grabbing at bushes and bare dirt, when something caught my eye. I’ve learned to pay attention to these anomalies. Something snags a piece of your peripheral vision like a beggar’s-lice latched to your pants, and you either ignore it or explore it. I tend toward the latter, especially in the woods. Whatever it is, it could be interesting. Could be trash. Could be an old enamelware pot moldering in the leaves.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Jimmy Tomlin |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King
The late Avery Sisk was always a cup-half-full kind of guy. Or, in his case, mug-half-full. Sisk, who died last March at the age of 81, was the architect behind Collettsville’s famous House of Mugs, an otherwise ordinary mountain cabin that Sisk inexplicably — some would say ingeniously — shingled with coffee mugs.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Robert Lopez |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King
The dining area of Kimber’s Steakhouse, a Gibsonville institution more than 40 years old, is filled with burgundy booths and candlelit tables. At the bar — the top of which is made from an old church pew — customers can sip a glass of wine or a cocktail. Black-and-white photos from around town adorn the walls, and sunlight streams through a stained-glass window emblazoned with the steakhouse’s name. The restaurant has played a pivotal role in many a diner’s life.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King |Lynn Wells
She starts slow, soft. Only the measured sound of her voice fills the track. Birds flying highYou know how I feelEach line echoes into the next as the young woman from rural Tryon, sitting in a New York City recording studio in 1965, sings about being truly free on the now-famous cover of “Feeling Good.” Nina Simone, the late civil rights activist, connected with the song’s descriptions of freedom, and her rendition, so packed with emotion and power, became a hit.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King |Lynn Wells
A shout comes from the front of the line at Dot & Pearl’s Bakery inside The Market in High Point: “First-timer at the market!” Co-owner Amie Richards and her staff cheer. A man with a polka dot apron and a big smile — David Richards, Amie’s brother-in-law — emerges from the kitchen with a warm cookie to welcome the newcomer.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | John Staton |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King
In Barton Hatcher’s imagination, fish fly, hummingbirds guzzle nectar from impossible angles, and a margarita glass dances to music. In one of the artist’s more notable paintings, a singer wearing a bright red dress rises from a stream of musical notes. A trumpet player and a guitarist perform in silhouette on either side of her, the backdrop a psychedelic swirl of purples, yellows, oranges, and blues.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Robin Sutton Anders |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King
In the tale of Greensboro’s historic Julian Price House, romance may be the right genre, but it was a far cry from love at first sight. Owners Michael and Eric Fuko-Rizzo could barely see the vine-engulfed English Tudor Greek Revival-style mansion before they bought it in 2016. The terra-cotta-tile roof, aged in lichen and moss, was the only architectural feature visible from the street. “Looking at the roof alone, I imagined this magnificent but charming cottage,” Eric says.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Tamiya Anderson |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly |Katie King
Our State’s Made in NC Awards celebrate the talent and creativity of North Carolinians. Meet the winners, honorable mentions, and judges. Check out all of this year’s winners!WinnerChris Carroll swirls vanilla extract into a mixing bowl and reimagines her family’s sugar cookie recipe. Before she’s done, she will have combined the juice and zest of a lemon with dried lavender buds, which bring a subtle floral note to the traditional treats of her childhood.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Tamiya Anderson |Elizabeth Hudson |Katie Kane |Isabella Reilly
Our State’s Made in NC Awards celebrate the talent and creativity of North Carolinians. Meet the winners, honorable mentions, and judges. Check out all of this year’s winners!WinnerGrowing up on a farm in Burgaw, Catherine Armstrong remembers passing cotton fields on the way to school, catching glimpses of John Deere cotton harvesters in late fall.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
ourstate.com | Isabella Reilly |Katie King |Molly Harrison |Rebecca Woltz
Winter WonderlandMontrose • HillsboroughNancy Goodwin’s garden blooms in every season, but nothing compares to winter. Pale yellow trumpet daffodils, primroses, hellebores, purple crocuses, camellias, and yellow wintersweet turn the 15-acre property alive with color. Montrose, which Goodwin has owned with her late husband since 1977, once belonged to Gov. William Alexander and his wife, Susannah.
