by Jeremy Markovich | Jul 4, 2024 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina
The time in 1994 when Dennis Anderson and the Grave Digger crossed a body of water. At precisely 10:28 a.m on July 4, 1994, Dennis Anderson drove up to the Poplar Branch Landing boat ramp in Currituck County to attempt something that hadn’t been tried before or since....
by Jeremy Markovich | Jun 13, 2024 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina
This place is not nearly as great, dismal, or swampy as it once was. In 1763, long before he became president, George Washington became an investor in the Dismal Swamp Company. The goal? Cut down trees, sell the logs, drain the swamp, turn it into farmland, and grow...
by Gwen Frisbie-Fulton | Jan 20, 2024 | Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, North Carolina, Reclaiming Rural
Jason Dunkin lives out in the country on the same small plot of land he grew up on. When I met him at his house recently, the rain was beating down hard on the metal roof. He looked out the window toward the road. “I remember my dad and my uncles would pick me...
by Jeremy Markovich | Oct 24, 2023 | Jeremy Markovich, North Carolina
There are at least two statues of Dale Earnhardt (that we know of). The first sits outside of the Daytona International Speedway, where he died in a crash in 2001. The second sits in a little plaza in downtown Kannapolis, surrounded by bricks and trees. It’s a bit...