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At the time of my birth, on December 10, 1928, to Weston and Mary Walch, a winter storm caused Little River to overflow its banks, flooding the valley and the road between Highway 101 and Crannell. My grandmother, Mae Fields, had driven up from Eureka in her high-wheeled Buick Roadster -- the o
As Women’s History Month celebrations continue throughout the month of March, students and staff at East Carolina University discuss the accomplishments and influences women have had on the university throughout
Courtesy of Preserving the Pit The most recent barbecue cookbook by a Black author wasn’t published this century. Bobby Seale, a man far better known for cofounding the Black Panther Party than for his barbecue chops, released Barbecue’n with Bobby in 1988. For pitmaster Kevin Bludso, that depressing gap is what makes this moment in barbecue so important. He and coauthor Noah Galuten just submitted the first draft of his manuscript for Bludso’s Family Cookbook, to be released in the spring of 2022. By then, two more barbecue books by Black authors—Adrian Miller’s Black Smoke and Ro...