This Old State

In 1989, Bill Ferris and Charles Reagan Wilson delivered a monumental work. Published by UNC Press, the 1,634-page Encyclopedia of Southern ...

Dr. Hope Williams (and not UNC-G Chancellor Patricia Sullivan, as I mistakenly reported earlier, after simply getting them mixed up), presid...

Last week Observer Travel Editor John Bordsen had a fun piece on the Seven Wonders of the Carolinas. It reminded me of a list that Asheville...

When former political candidate and businessman Erskine Bowles was sworn in last week as the 16th president of the University of North Carol...

For going on six decades now I’ve had a love affair with my home state. I’m biased, I’ll admit right up front, but I think we’ve been blesse...