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Carolina Stories

The people, places and history that make our state great

Jacob’s Log

Our best-laid plans

Carolina Gardens

Sting fire ants before they sting you

Methods — chemical and non-chemical — for controlling fire ants

First Person

The Lavender Project Cooperative

By Kathryn Kruse

Carolina Living

The Mill Town That Never Closed

How Cooleemee retained the heritage that defined its character

Carolina Gardens

Two-Minute Tomatology

Plus garden to do’s for June & July

A Classic

Angela Robertson

Carolina Living

Amazing Sheds

These are not your garden variety potting sheds. These are amazing!

A classroom

Dwight A. Dickinson, Murphy, Blue Ridge Mountain EMC

Carolina People

American know-how

helped avoid disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant

Back home

Susie Fishel, Lexington, EnergyUnited

Christmastime

Jim & Teresa Buelin, Granite Falls, Blue Ridge EMC

Cowboy needed

Lynn Amann

Our Irish shed

Gary and Louise Rascoe, Bahama, Piedmont EMC

Memorial shed

Sam and Sara Adams, Rutherfordton, Rutherford EMC

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The steeple shed

Sandy Hicks, Todd, Blue Ridge Electric

I Remember

Doing our part

Garden grandeur

Joan Gillis, Waynesville, Haywood EMC

Fresh air

Saundra Springer, Youngsville

Carolina Living

Henry River Mill Village

An abandoned mill village in eastern NC sets the scene for the film “The Hunger Games”

Feature Story

Man cave

Michele Williams, Waxhaw, Union Power Cooperative