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Train rides just may be one of the best ways to experience the mountains, especially if you want to see as much as you can in a short amount of time.
In Georgia, hop aboard for a trip on the Blue Ridge Scenic Railroad . Departing from Blue Ridge, this three- and-a-half hour ride includes a […]
If you are headed to North Carolina for your holidays, you might want to keep your eyes open for Brown Mountain. It’s not all that spectacular, but something strange is going on there and no one knows why! Even the government has gotten involved and they can’t figure it out either!
Apparently lights have been appearing […]
I can remember getting ready to go back to school and how exciting it was to stock up on a new wardrobe. Unfortunately, in those days, we weren’t treated to sales tax holidays, so we really missed out. But you can take full advantage of the offerings. I was amazed to see just how many […]
I don’t know about you, but a lot of amusement park rides… quite frankly, scare me. Granted, most of the time, the rides are well serviced and nothing goes wrong, but then you read about rides when things DO GO WRONG. All I can say is that I hope that this horrible accident will […]
“The nation’s best place to get a tan and enjoy the ocean’s waves in 2007 is North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island, a place so remote that even people in the offices of “Dr. Beach” _ Florida International University professor Stephen Leatherman — didn’t know where to find it on the map.
“It’s not the […]
The North Carolina Maritime Museum on Roanoke Island is one of three regional sites of the state’s maritime museum. There are also facilities in Beaufort and in the Town of Southport. The Roanoke Island facility was added to the system in 1998, twenty-five years after the founding of the museum in […]
“In North Carolina, global warming isn’t a future worry. It’s already lapping ashore.
Nags Head Mayor Renee Cahoon sees all the proof of climate change she needs at the end of Old Oregon Inlet Road. The street once led to rows of oceanfront houses. Now it ends suddenly in bulldozed piles of sand.
Some beach erosion occurs […]
”This red-brick, 5,349-square-foot house inside the Ballantyne Country Club is filled with interior Corinthian columns and has a view of the course’s fairway and lake. Hardwood and tile floors run through its five bedrooms and three bathrooms.”
If you are a golfer, you would love this, but what grabbed my attention is the view of the […]
“RIEGELWOOD, N.C. - Survivors picked through the rubble of their flattened homes Friday after a tornado killed eight people in this riverside town, the area hardest hit by a devastating storm system that later swept through the Northeast.
Gov. Mike Easley toured the devastated area as disaster assessment teams surveyed what was left of a […]
In North Carolina, elephants may not be used to plow cotton fields.
You have to wonder how these laws ever came to be. The stories behind the laws are probably funnier than the laws themselves! And there are a lot!
Wacky Laws, Weird Decisions, and Strange Statutes
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Written by Apryl Chapman Thomas [email], and Katherine Lynch [email] for b5media.
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