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Rabbit Hole Road Trip: McDowell County

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Aug 19, 2025

Rabbit Hole Road Trip: McDowell County

We spent a Saturday rolling around the mountains. Here's the itinerary for a quick trip with a waterfall, an orchard, an old train station, and a turnkey campsite.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
Bad Weather Isn't Enough To Make Power Companies Bury Their Lines. So What Is?

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Jan 9, 2024

Bad Weather Isn't Enough To Make Power Companies Bury Their Lines. So What Is?

After storms and widespread outages, electrical companies and experts always say it's too expensive to put all overhead power lines underground. In the 1960s, they buried them for different reasons.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
When a Venezuelan strongman ate barbecue at a guy's house in Hickory

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Nov 23, 2020

When a Venezuelan strongman ate barbecue at a guy's house in Hickory

We're talking about Hugo Chávez again for some reason, so we might as well talk about the time when he came to a small city in North Carolina in 2001.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich

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