Culpepper is leaving some big shoes to fill, but we have a lot of talent here in northeastern North Carolina. White and Spears are both extremely qualified.

Absent a legend, they have very big shoes to fill,

I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.

....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday life and shelter it from useless. dreads. In june they are walls of white rhodendron blossom. In autumn the forests set themselves afflame with color. Even winter has its icy charms.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.