— Click away a leisurely afternoon with these 206 images of Asheville from the Library of Congress.
— “The Nylon Capital of the World… need not embellish its past with a bogus story about Leonidas Polk.”
— The distinctive architecture of Gaston County’s oldest building “came down the Great Wagon Road.”
— Hugh McColl Jr. recalls “the most boring city I’d ever seen in my life.” (Relax, Raleigh, he’s not talking about you.)