Editor Emeritus Bill Poteat looks back on the midlife crisis that gripped him nearly 30 years ago. He didn't buy a flashy sports car; he picked up a pair of Asics trainers. 

A lot of history can be seen on the surface of Quaker Meadows Cemetery in Morganton. But... what secrets lie beneath the ground?

Columnist Bill Brown recounts what a great storyteller his ancestor Joseph Dobson Jr. was. 

Publisher Allen VanNoppen thought he was in charge of his life. And then a little gland the size of a walnut showed him exactly who's the boss.