Did you know buffalo once roamed North Carolina? It’s true.

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A couple weeks ago, I pointed the car toward Winston-Salem to record a podcast episode with C. Elmon Meade.

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Growing up in the misty hollers of Western North Carolina, Papaw would toss me into the cab of his old pickup and point us toward the gemstone mines tucked into the hills around Canton. It was our yearly ritual. Our pilgrimage. We’d spend hours at those roadside panning spots, shoulders sunburned, hands gritty, sifting through buckets of dirt. Every once in a while,...

A couple of weeks ago, we got unintentionally marooned in Raleigh for a few hours. Not the dramatic, flip-a-table kind of delay—just the slow, soul-sapping variety. My baby cousin got tangled up with TSA and missed his flight because he was traveling with a high school ID. None of us were dressed to explore a city, and absolutely nobody wanted to sink into another airport cha...