Walker Golder grew up in Wrightsville Beach and found himself shaped by the pristine barrier islands. Now as the deputy director of the National Audubon Society's North Carolina State Office, Golder oversees the North Carolina Coastal Islands sanctuary system--nineteen fragile islands scattered along 180 miles of shore.
You don't hear much about the music scene in Hendersonville but once you hear Lizz Wright's soulful voice, you'll be drawn to the gospel inspired jazz being brought to the area.
Earlier this year, Andrea Reusing besting five of the nation's culinary elite to claim the James Beard Foundation's prestigious Best Chef in the Southeast award with her Chapel Hill-based restaurant and cuisine.
In his professional life, musician Jim Mills spent fourteen years as a Grammy-winning, banjo-playing sideman to bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs. But in his personal life, Mills is known for the banjo room in his Durham home--the world's largest collection of Gibson historic banjos.
Assembled over the last nine years, the Balentine's Southern Highlands Reserve cloaking the top of Toxaway Mountain, Cashiers, North Carolina is a mountain Eden dedicated to conserving unique habitats.
Although with no university or exciting night life, historic Hillsborough possibly claim to have more critically acclaimed authors per capita than any other city in the region.
In 1979, Kroghie Andresen's wife brought home an antique wooden duck decoy for decoration. Today, Andresen is single-handedly preserving the lost art of down east North Carolina duck carving with a decoy collection of over 1,110 blocks.