“’Tis hard to break the tender cord, when love has bound the heart. ’Tis hard, so hard, to speak the words, ‘We must forever part.’ ” ’Tis also hard to stroll Ocracoke Island’s pat… See more

Although the bricks and columns of some cabins and many towering plantation homes survive, the human parts of our heritage, and those parts made of things less tangibl… See more

Yonder through the trees outside Carthage, you might could get a window to a world not often remembered. Before the Revolutionary War, many from the Scottish Highlands … See more

Look through the big steel arch stretching from the green at Fort Nooherooka in Snow Hill. Try to picture the agricultural fields that once rolled across the grass where the monument … See more

It’s called “The Road to Nowhere,” but it leads to what’s left of a drowned world and the loving dedication that has persisted for more than 70 years. In the 1930s and ’40s, to facilitate … See more