North Carolina

A tribal council of the Cherokee Nation has voted to ask the U.S. Board of Geographic Names to restore their traditional name for the highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, one which has spiritual and historical significance to the tribe. Now called Clingman's Dome, it was renamed in 1859 after a North Carolina senator who was later expelled from the Senate and fought against the U.S. as a Confederate general. Its original name was Kuwahi, meaning 'mulberry place.' The...

A museum in her hometown pays tribute to a home-town girl who made it big as one of the top names in Hollywood history

America's favorite National Park takes the top spot again; surprisingly, even in the Covid era last year set a new record.

Marilyn Jones visits the gateway city for Smoky Mountain National Park, with attractions in and near the park and a great place to stay.

Jonathan L drives through the south stopping in Petersburg VA and Greenville SC

Marilyn Jones enjoys a break in an unusual hotel created where once textile looms spun out fabric.

Marilyn visits a wide-ranging museum, created when North Carolina became the first state to buy art with public funds.

Lester has the opportunity to visit the fabulous Biltmore Estate when it was all decorated for the Christmas holidays!

Marilyn Jones enjoys a few days in an area that seems to have everything—including the ability to seem like somewhere else for the movies!

Here's your chance to learn to fly the glider the Wright Brothers few before they added an engine.

Join Marilyn Jones on a tour of a plantation that shows a past way of life, and whose labor actually built it.

Marilyn Jones takes us to the lavish North Carolina gardens created at the turn of the last century by Sarah Jones.