North Carolina

Sporting
Born to Fly
At a grass airstrip in rural North Carolina, novelist and onetime fighter pilot Clyde Edgerton steps back into the cockpit—and back in time—for the flight of his dreams

Arts & Culture
A Southern Artist Returns Home
Kentucky-born Elliott Puckette debuts her first Southern solo show at Charlotte’s SOCO Gallery

The South's Best Food Towns
Asheville, North Carolina: Weekend Dining Guide
Superior sipping and supping in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Charlotte, North Carolina
Year of Fashion
A three-part exhibition series by The Mint Museum

Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte Collects: Contemporary Couture and Fabulous Fashion
An exhibition by The Mint Museum

In the Garden
For the Love of Dahlias
In the hills outside Asheville, a husband-and-wife team cultivates a three-acre dreamscape devoted to a mountain flower

Recipe
Nita’s Corn Salad
A fresh summer side

Food & Drink
Bill Smith’s Honeysuckle Sorbet
A taste of summer from Chapel Hill mainstay Crook’s Corner

Arts & Culture
Documenting Disappearing Treasures
An inspiring North Carolina Instagram account for architecture lovers

Homeplace
The Slow Lane: Jimmie Johnson’s Charlotte Home
For the NASCAR champion and his wife, Chandra, enjoying downtime at their North Carolina home is the ultimate win

My Town
Katie Button’s Asheville, North Carolina
The Cúrate chef plays tour guide in the city she calls home

City Portrait
Growth Spurt: Durham’s New Hot Spots
Between its creative food scene and its now-thriving downtown, Durham these days has lots to delight

Travel
North Carolina

Travel
Bullish on the Bull City
Long overshadowed by its sister cities—Raleigh and Chapel Hill—Durham, North Carolina, is coming into its own

Arts & Culture
The Stickman
Wild, whimsical, wooden—from his artwork to his home, North Carolina sculptor Patrick Dougherty’s fantastical creations bend the imagination

Fork in the Road
Small Wonder
One of the newest additions to a growing Durham is a little gem

Arts & Culture
Weaving Kudzu into Art
An Asheville, North Carolina artist puts one of the South’s most abundant nuisances to work: Kudzu

The Southern Agenda
Going Whole Hog
NC Barbecue Revival organizer Wyatt Dickson shares three standout Eastern North Carolina barbecue joints

Arts & Culture
Today in Southern History: A North Carolina Film Shocks the World
Blue Velvet explored the darkness that can lurk beneath the shiny veneer of a small town

Arts & Culture
Return to Mayberry, America’s Favorite Southern Small Town
A celebration of Surry County’s most famous native son and the series that defined America’s small-town idyll, The Andy Griffith Show