Mysteriously pregnant stingrays! A crumbling newspaper building! An egregiously racist statue! Here are a few stories that gave me a lot to think about lately.
Why A Stretch of Interstate 85 is Backward in North Carolina
For a few miles, the lanes on the right flip over to the left and vice versa. This happens almost nowhere else in the country. Why here? We tracked down the designer a half-century later to find out.
A Billy Graham statue! Steven Spielberg's yellow hat! A puppy! A goalie helmet! Here's a ton of new information on some old stories that might have left you hangin'.
Northerners are mystified that Southern homes don't have any space underground, and vice versa. So, uh, what's up with that? We delve deep into history and data to try and figure it out.
A decade ago, a congregation in Taylorsville took over a space that was once used for fixing up and selling Fords. Now its pastor is pondering the nature of a church in a post pandemic world.
Browns (or Brown) Summit and the Disappearing Apostrophe
A decision from more than 130 years ago changed the way that we refer to places. That doesn't stop people from calling things whatever the hell they want.
A reader pointed out a road sign for an Eastern North Carolina town that seems to be missing a letter. We found the truth. It's not a particularly deep truth, but we found it anyway.
Bojangles has nationwide aspirations. We've heard this story before.
North Carolina's most beloved chicken and biscuit chain has been around since 1977. It's been owned by out-of-towners and private equity firms for a big chunk of its life.
Sure, it's easy to split hairs over whether Cary is a "town" or a "city," but it and many other North Carolina places grew exponentially in population because of a law few other states had.
