We had five aircraft fly from Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to Charlotte [North Carolina] just carrying bags, no passengers, so that they could be sorted and returned to passengers.

North Carolina is the place you fly over on the way to Florida. Ohio is the flat place between Hoboken and Malibu.

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.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

When I was 8 years old, I saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.