Category: North Carolina Historic Sites

  • Wildacres Fiber Retreat, Part I

    Monday-Tuesday, Sept 9-10, 2024 Edwina Bringle, that fascinating and multi-talented artist who has been a teacher and mentor to so many fiber artists, held a second fiber retreat at Wildacres Retreat, a mountaintop retreat facility near Little Switzerland, North Carolina. I attended last year, and jumped at the opportunity to go again this year. Because…

  • It took me a while to get around to this, but Sandy and I spent a much too short weekend at the beach on Oak Island, NC with friends. We ate a lot of great food and played games and made some fine new friends. The house was next to the Intracoastal Waterway on the…

  • Yesterday Sandy and I drove south to Town Creek Indian Mound, a state historic site in Montgomery County, North Carolina. I had never been there, and Sandy had gone many years ago. Unfortunately, the visitor center with the museum and gift shop was closed, but we could walk around the reconstructed mound and buildings and…