This Old State

Somewhere along in the middle innings, when the Durham Bulls were well on their way to a 16-hit, 11-run hammering of the Charlotte Knights i...

Former state Rep. Maggie Keesee-Forrester of Greensboro died the other day, and a lot of folks remember her gentle, graceful style – and the...

My friend Burke Davis, the former Charlotte News editor and writer of scores of terrific books about the American Revolution and the Civil W...

It’s hard to believe now, but at one time, conservation officials hoped to boost the resident population of Canada geese and somehow get the...

When Gov. Dan Moore (1965-69) asked then-state Rep. Jim Exum of Greensboro in 1967 if he’d like to become a Superior Court Judge, Exum had h...

Thing I love about this business is that you never know what you’re going to learn next – but there’s always something. So it was at the N.C...

Needham Bryan Cobb (1836-1905) was a minister, Confederate chaplain, editor, teacher and writer who edited the North Carolina Almanac for ne...