North Carolina

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

Kentucky-born Elliott Puckette debuts her first Southern solo show at Charlotte’s SOCO Gallery

Superior sipping and supping in the Blue Ridge Mountains

A three-part exhibition series by The Mint Museum

An exhibition by The Mint Museum

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

A fresh summer side

A taste of summer from Chapel Hill mainstay Crook’s Corner

An inspiring North Carolina Instagram account for architecture lovers

For the NASCAR champion and his wife, Chandra, enjoying downtime at their North Carolina home is the ultimate win

The Cúrate chef plays tour guide in the city she calls home

Between its creative food scene and its now-thriving downtown, Durham these days has lots to delight

Long overshadowed by its sister cities—Raleigh and Chapel Hill—Durham, North Carolina, is coming into its own

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

One of the newest additions to a growing Durham is a little gem

An Asheville, North Carolina artist puts one of the South’s most abundant nuisances to work: Kudzu

NC Barbecue Revival organizer Wyatt Dickson shares three standout Eastern North Carolina barbecue joints

Blue Velvet explored the darkness that can lurk beneath the shiny veneer of a 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