6-minute Stories

This story of a North Carolinian living a century ago reminds us that some challenges are timeless and persistent..

I’d feel like I was sleeping--North Carolina writer Karen Luke Jackson reads her own story about giving her mother one of the best days in her life.

Our stories, our history, are out there--sometimes hidden, sometimes on prominent display--all waiting to be remembered and retold. A name? It begins a good story. .Take "Cumberland" for example.

A North Carolina writer shares cherished memories of a favorite aunt with a special trick for baiting fish and kneading love into young lives.

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Learning the Appalachian culture is just part of the job of delivering home health care

A North Carolina writer remembers vividly his boyhood tromping around in the now-disappeared forbidden woods adjacent to his neighborhood.

The second oldest Revolutionary War monument in the country was dedicated on July 4, 1814 and stands today in a place quite surprising to most Americans.

A reluctant North Carolina writer recalls the freedom of her tomboy childhood through her memories of an adventure in the “wilds” of South Carolina one hot July, made special in it remembrance six decades later.

Come in, y’all, and welcome--A transplanted New Yorker discovers the secret of good home-cooked hospitality and a lot more in Asheville, North Carolina.

A North Carolina writer reflects on her delight of annually picking cherries for 40 years at one special orchard of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.