A legend from Polk County tells of a mysterious creature once seen by a young boy in the Appalachian foothills.
Glassy Mountain is the resident peak of the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, the preserved farm and house of the famed poet located in Flat Rock, N.C. A beautiful network of trails eventually leads to a steep, but worthwhile, climb to Glassy Mountain Overlook.
A Connecticut-born pioneer of electric lighting and his North Carolina wife rest in Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery, their stories entwined with industry, innovation and philanthropy.
EDNEYVILLE, N.C. (828newsNOW.com) — In the open farmland of rural Henderson County, two oversized […]
A story that runs from Asheville’s tuberculosis era to Thomas Wolfe’s fiction and early American horror.
Meet Amos Owens, the Cherry Bounce King of North Carolina, whose moonshine legacy and infamous mountain parties made him a folk legend on Cherry Mountain in the late 1800s.
A Revolutionary War pension file and a Canton gravesite connect Thomas Abel’s Virginia enlistment to his final resting place in Haywood County.
A roadside marker near Brevard recalls a vanished Cherokee village and a legend that still raises questions.
A marble figure, lost to ivy in summer and revealed each winter, is tied to a Southern literary legacy.
On Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what would become one of the most famous speeches in American history. “I Have a Dream,” King’s address to the 200,000–300,000 attendees of The March on Washington, remains a signature rallying cry for civil rights over 60 years later.