Friday, January 4, 2008
Milepost 176.1
Story and photos by Janet Lockerby McCoig
This experience began with the simple suggestion that it would be nice to have a delicious piece of chocolate cake. When a craving such as that presents itself, there can only be one destination, the source of that most spectacular chocolate cake is the restaurant at Mabry Mill.
The Blue Ridge Parkway holds cherished memories for all who travel it. I am
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Seagrove, North Carolina from Winston Salem Living Magazine
By Janet Lockerby McCoig
Seagrove, a small town south of Greensboro, has become the unofficial pottery capital of the southeast. With more than one hundred potteries operating in the area, a day in Seagrove is a pottery lover’s dream. Pottery is such an important facet of the area, both historically and economically today, the North Carolina Pottery Center built an educational facility in the
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Coalwood, West Virginia
A short drive up the mountain from Bluefield, West Virginia sits a small, seemingly abandoned coal town called Coalwood. We wove our way up to visit the town. We drove through several small coal towns, Bramwell, Maybeury, Switchback, and Keystone just to get started. Then continuing on like we were picking up bread crumbs from Hansel and Gretal, there was Vivian, Kimball, Superior, Maitland,
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Aunt Melissy’s Cabin
I suppose this story starts or begins at the McCoig Family reunion a couple of years ago at Panther Creek State Park in Morristown TN. The usual cast of characters were there, my Mom and Dad, Aunt Mary and Uncle Charles, my brother and his wife and daughter, and many UN-named cousins. There were even a few distant relatives from Nebraska, South Carolina, Indiana, but mostly from
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Confederates, NASCAR and Shopping in Hillsborough, North Carolina
We traveled out to a very cool and historic town this past weekend called Hillsborough, North Carolina. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The town boasts of having the last house (Visitors Center) which served as Gen. Joseph E. Johnston’s headquarters when he surrendered the largest of the Confederate armies to Gen. William T. Sherman, leading to the Civil War’s end.
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