Music
Posted on February 16, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Charlotte, Charlotte dining, Charlotte weather, Dating, Entertainment, Family, Food, Life, Music, NC cities, NC travel, North Carolina, People, Review | Tags: NC, Music, Maestro restaurant, Pineville NC, Charlotte dining, restaurant reviews, Maestro Bar & Bistro, Carolina Place Mall, outside seating, restaurant porch |
I am getting to be a regular at Maestro Bar & Bistro, a great restaurant in Pineville NC, just south of 485 in Charlotte. My lady and I started out riding our bicycles from Park Crossing and rode around the back side of Carolina Place Mall. We ended up in Pineville and were close to [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2008. Filed under: Charlotte, Charlotte dining, Entertainment, Family, Food, History, Leadership, Life, Music, NC cities, NC homes, NC real estate, North Carolina, People, culture, real estate | Tags: coffee shops, Habit Restore, Habitat for Humanity, Julia Maulden, Julia's Coffee Shop, live music, NC, North Carolina |
I just read this incredible story and wanted to pass it along. Julia Maulden was an incredibly giving person and very active in Habitat for Humanity. The coffee shop adjacent to the Habitat Restore on Wendover Ave in CharlotteĀ NC is named for her. Help continue her legacy of giving by visiting Julia’s Coffee Shop and [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Family, History, Life, Literature, Music, NC cities, NC tourism, NC travel, Nature, North Carolina, People, TV, Television, culture, travel | Tags: North Carolina, Ray Hicks, Rosa Hicks, Beech Mountain, jack tales, story telling, UNC TV |
If you want to know about the real people of North Carolina, the old times, of struggles to stay alive, and of the oral traditions of story telling, passed down and transported from the British Isles, study the life of Ray and Rosa Hicks. Ray passed away a few years ago. I had an opportunity [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Family, History, Life, Media, Music, NC cities, NC news, NC tourism, NC travel, North Carolina, culture, travel | Tags: North Carolina, bluegrass, Music, old time, Frank Profitt, Tom Dooley, Tom Dula, Kingston Trio, ballads, Frank Profitt Jr |
North Carolina has a rich music tradition that goes back hundreds of years and evolved from music traditions from the old world in places like the British Isles and Africa. My own love of music began in my childhood and covers a broad range of styles from Bach to bluegrass. I play a little guitar, [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2008. Filed under: Books, Education, Entertainment, Family, Food, History, Life, Literature, Media, Music, Reading, School, Writing, culture, shopping, travel | Tags: book stores, Books, Everett, Mukilteo Booksellers, Mukilteo WA, Seattle, used books, Washington |
Ok, I know, this blog is all about North Carolina. However, we are still in Everett Washington and I am going to post one more article about this area. We just got back from Whidby Coffee Shop, which overlooks the Puget Sound across from the ferry landing. This is one of my favorite coffee shops [...]
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Posted on December 27, 2007. Filed under: Family, Food, History, Home, Life, Music, NC tourism, NC travel, News, culture | Tags: Fries Virginia, VA, benefit concert, bluegrass, Galax, gas explosion |
Ok, I know, this blog is about North Carolina. Well, I am writing this from Everett WA and from this distance, Fries Virginia seems like home. Fries is just north of North Carolina and near Galax Virginia and our heritages are intertwined.
There was a propane gas explosion there earlier this month that killed and injured [...]
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