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 -Chocolate Chess Pie |
Here is the hub of North Carolina - the official center of government,
education, history, art, music, medicine, research and, in some seasons,
college basketball.
The Triangle reaches from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill into the surrounding countryside where citizens remain only as connected to the spokes as they choose. The collective population is about 1 million.
Anointed recently as one of the nation's best places to live and work, the Triangle also attracts a steady stream of visitors to its museums, handsome capitol building and government halls, fine universities, historic districts, renowned hospitals, competitive sporting events, the state fair, and cosmopolitan restaurants and shopping centers.
Just beyond the urban centers is an enviable collection
of protected parks and wild areas - Eno River, Haw River, Falls Lake,
Jordan Lake, Kerr Lake, Umstead Park, Duke Forest.
Some determined natives lament the fading of a North Carolina accent from
the Triangle, while others embrace the mixing of cultures that has occurred
here for two centuries. But if you look and listen long and hard - at
a legislative committee hearing, or the Hillsborough court house, or the
state farmers market, or a Franklin County church supper - you'll understand
where you are.