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An Our State Playlist: The Watsons: 40 Favorites

Each month, Our State senior editor — and resident soundtrack maker — Mark Kemp, a former music editor of Rolling Stone, curates a one-of-a-kind Spotify playlist featuring North Carolina songs and...

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Stories of Somerset Place

Left: Across the walkway from Lake Hospital (left) and the Sucky Davis House (right) is the Colony House (center), where plantation owner Josiah Collins III’s children attended school. Today, it houses...

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The First Family of NC Mountain Music

If it weren’t for the cast of characters, the old house in the black-and-white photograph wouldn’t be much to look at. Crowded together on the creaky plank front porch are 12 people from two...

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Entering Western North Carolina’s Lost Cove

The forest is swallowing up the old town. Nature’s demolition crew. Vines grow from the windows of two dilapidated homes. A lone chimney, made of rocks, rises from a hill next to the rusting shell of a...

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An Our State Playlist: Carolina Chill

Each month, Our State senior editor — and resident soundtrack maker — Mark Kemp, a former music editor of Rolling Stone, curates a one-of-a-kind Spotify playlist featuring North Carolina songs and...

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An Our State Playlist: Mighty MerleFest 2024

Each month, Our State senior editor — and resident soundtrack maker — Mark Kemp, a former music editor of Rolling Stone, curates a one-of-a-kind Spotify playlist featuring North Carolina songs and...

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Swimming Across NC

Earliest childhood memory: I’m bobbing and swaying in the gentle whitecaps of Kure Beach on Pleasure Island just south of Wilmington, safe in my father’s sturdy arms. My tiny hands hold tight to Dino,...

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School Spirit in Jarvisburg

For almost 40 years, the bell sounded at 8 o’clock sharp each weekday morning in the fall, winter, and spring. It rang out over sprawling, flat fields of corn and cotton, potatoes and peanuts,...

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The Return of a Jazz Legend

New Orleans-born jazz legend Wynton Marsalis remembers the first time he ever traveled to North Carolina. It was the late 1970s, Marsalis was 15 years old, and he’d come for his first year of study at...

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Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum

One year ago, on a day much like today, United States Army and Marine Corps veteran J.R. Quintero knelt in the middle of the field at the American Legion Fairgrounds in Jacksonville and kissed the...

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