Thomas Wolfe's 1929 novel turned his Asheville boyhood into 'Altamont,' and the town recognized itself at once. It took years for the anger to cool.
Read the storyGovernor William Tryon's brick mansion in New Bern was among the grandest buildings in colonial America. Its price angered taxpayers, and it burned in 1798.
In November 1753, a small party of Moravian men reached the North Carolina Piedmont. They built a planned, craft-based community among the backcountry farms.
In a small North Carolina valley, a tiny college put the arts at the center of education and drew artists who reshaped American culture.
For 24 years a small, broke college in the Blue Ridge hosted the Alberses, Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Fuller, and changed American art.
