Trying new foods is something that intimidates a lot of people. Living in the country and being a hunter allowed me to respect animals and
Category: Environment
A Culture of Food: Spots for spot?
It happens to me every year around this time. On the side of almost every rural North Carolina coastal town, I see a sign: fresh
The Masks We Wear – Part 1: Crime and History
There are hundreds of different prisoners who could have been the Man in the Iron Mask. In the 1998 Leonardo DiCaprio movie entitled The Man in the
The History and a Song: Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons”
People have been coming to America, for some reason or another, for a very long time. Some sought freedom of religion. Some yearned for economic
So you want to survive a bear encounter?
Map showing black bear populations in the US. I didn’t really think about bears living in eastern North Carolina until one ran out in front
The History and a Song: Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
I was born in the early 1980s when the popularity of Canadian born folk-rock/folk-pop singer Gordon Lightfoot was still high. He had many hits in
