— In the Pilot of Southern Pines, Stephen Smith finds a silver lining in the theft of the historical marker identifying the Weymouth Center as the former home of novelist James Boyd.
— Volunteers in Eden retrieve a sunken 40-foot bateau replica from the Dan River.
— Ben Steelman answers a reader’s question about the checkered tenancy of downtown Wilmington’s old Masonic Temple, aka St. John’s hall.
— Is North Carolina’s official state horse really unAmerican?