North Carolina is My Home

Charles Kuralt (right) and Loonis McGlohon photographed together by Hugh Morton sometime near the debut of their album titled North Carolina Is My Home. The photograph appeared in the November 1985 issue of The State accompanying an article written by Charles Heatherly.
Charles Kuralt (right) and Loonis McGlohon photographed together by Hugh Morton sometime near the debut of their album titled North Carolina Is My Home. The photograph appeared in the November 1985 issue of The State accompanying an article written by Charles Heatherly.

On July 4, 1997, North Carolina lost a talented favorite son when Charles Kuralt died in New York City during the early morning hours.  Kuralt is well known for his work in television.  He also wrote and co-wrote about a dozen books, including North Carolina is My Home published in 1986.  Kuralt described that book as “an adapted and expanded and revised and revamped and amended and improved