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North Carolina is many things to many people. First, it is big and diverse--especially in the urban areas. The latest census lists NC as the 10th largest state in the country with 9.3 million people.

NC is Southern, it is Mountains, the Hurricanes (hockey), Charlotte and the banking business, the coast, the Outer Banks, the Smokies, Blue Ridge Parkway, basketball, Duke, the Tar Heels, more basketball, the Bobcats (NBA), Asheville-the-new-Boulder, the new South, growing, traffic, beautiful, coast-plains-mountains all in one, Blue Heaven,  tall pines, Pinehurst and golf, NASCAR, the Research Triangle Park, growing Hispanic population, retirement in the Highlands, just plain Heaven, the only place to live and work: say it one more time: the ONLY place to live and work.

And definitely the ONLY place to play, shop, trek, browse, spend the night, sample restaurants... to live!

North Carolina Ramble is for residents and visitors alike. Every two weeks we'll update the blog and focus on one particular aspect of the State--the old North State--so that when you want to travel and visit and explore, your first stop will always be North Carolina Ramble.

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Golf on Bald Head Island

July 27, 2010 0 Comments

Bald Head Island is sort of like the Caribbean in NC. It's a short ferry ride from the quaint and beautiful town of Southport. Once on the island there are many things to do, including playing golf on a spectacular course.

The Bald Head Island Club's 18-hole seaside golf course winds its way over dunes, around lagoons, along the ocean, and through a maritime forest. Course designer George Cobb, who for 20 years was the lead consultant at Augusta National, left much of the terrain the way he found it, creating a course of almost unparalleled wild beauty. Many of the holes are so undisturbed, they are bordered by the still lively natural habitats of herons, egrets, foxes and alligators.

Awarded a coveted 4.5 stars from Golf Digest's Places to Play, the Bald Head Island Club Course has a slope rating of 139 and course rating ...

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The Mother of All....Vines

July 19, 2010 0 Comments

Located at the northern end of Roanoke Island, the Mother Vine and its grapes may have been among those that Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe spotted in 1584 during their American expedition, sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh.  Having already toured the most abundant grape-growing regions of Europe, the explorers observed that North Carolina was “so full of grapes, as the very beating and surge of the Sea overflowed them. . . .” and pointed out that “in all the world the like abundance is not to be found.”

What the two saw was probably the agricultural work of Croatoans, who reportedly made wine from the white grape or vitis rotundifolia.  These grapes undoubtedly provided sustenance for the early settlers of the Lost Colony.  

When Ralph Lane served as Governor of Roanoke Island (1585), the settlement was divided between “planters” and “the colony.”  The planters unquestionably cultivated grapes where the Mother Vine now stands ...

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One Man's Art is Another's...Legs!

July 6, 2010 0 Comments

It is truly hard to believe—not so much in the way it looks (it looks just as its creator intended, semi-lewd) but hard to believe that the residents of Henderson allow Ricky Pearce’s “Legs” sculpture “represent” the town, located about 45 minutes north of Durham

 

Pearce, using concrete as his medium, has created a set of female legs, spread brazenly apart, that extend outward at angles for 40 and rising to 17 feet at the knees.  And, to fulfill the image, the shrubbery around  were the legs part is always neatly trimmed so that, seen from directly above, there’s no mistaking the ground work for anything but what it represents---you know what I mean.

 

Across the street, oddly, is a pair of high heel shoes. A trellis bridging the woman’s thighs says Reminiscing.

 

It must be seen to be believed.

 

It is in a rural part ...

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One Man's Art is Another's...Legs!

July 5, 2010 0 Comments

It is truly hard to believe—not so much in the way it looks (it looks just as its creator intended, semi-lewd) but hard to believe that the residents of Henderson allow Ricky Pearce’s “Legs” sculpture “represent” the town, located about 45 minutes north of Durham

 

Pearce, using concrete as his medium, has created a set of female legs, spread brazenly apart, that extend outward at angles for 40 and rising to 17 feet at the knees.  And, to fulfill the image, the shrubbery around  were the legs part is always neatly trimmed so that, seen from directly above, there’s no mistaking the ground work for anything but what it represents---you know what I mean.

 

Across the street, oddly, is a pair of high heel shoes. A trellis bridging the woman’s thighs says Reminiscing.

 

It must be seen to be believed.

 

It is in a rural part ...

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