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Milepost 176.1

Fri, 4 Jan 2008 11:10:10 -0500

Story and photos by Janet Lockerby McCoig This experience began with the simple suggestion that it would be nice to have a delicious piece of chocolate cake. When a craving such as that presents itself, there can only be one destination, the source of that most spectacular chocolate cake is the restaurant at Mabry Mill. The Blue Ridge Parkway holds cherished memories for all who travel it. I am no

Seagrove, North Carolina from Winston Salem Living Magazine

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:30:50 -0500

By Janet Lockerby McCoig Seagrove, a small town south of Greensboro, has become the unofficial pottery capital of the southeast. With more than one hundred potteries operating in the area, a day in Seagrove is a pottery lover’s dream. Pottery is such an important facet of the area, both historically and economically today, the North Carolina Pottery Center built an educational facility in the cent

Coalwood, West Virginia

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:26:59 -0400

A short drive up the mountain from Bluefield, West Virginia sits a small, seemingly abandoned coal town called Coalwood. We wove our way up to visit the town. We drove through several small coal towns, Bramwell, Maybeury, Switchback, and Keystone just to get started. Then continuing on like we were picking up bread crumbs from Hansel and Gretal, there was Vivian, Kimball, Superior, Maitland, a

Aunt Melissy’s Cabin

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:06:08 -0400

I suppose this story starts or begins at the McCoig Family reunion a couple of years ago at Panther Creek State Park in Morristown TN. The usual cast of characters were there, my Mom and Dad, Aunt Mary and Uncle Charles, my brother and his wife and daughter, and many UN-named cousins. There were even a few distant relatives from Nebraska, South Carolina, Indiana, but mostly from Tennessee.

Confederates, NASCAR and Shopping in Hillsborough, North Carolina

Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:47:03 -0400

We traveled out to a very cool and historic town this past weekend called Hillsborough, North Carolina. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The town boasts of having the last house (Visitors Center) which served as Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s headquarters when he surrendered the largest of the Confederate armies to Gen. William T. Sherman, leading to the Civil War’s end. After