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Playing in the Dirt: PlantFest 2024!
97.9 The Hill and Chapelboro.com have partnered with NC State Extension Master Gardener℠ volunteers of Orange County for “Playing in the Dirt,” a monthly column providing information and inspiration to gardeners of all skill levels! Check back on Chapelboro each month for a new subject – from our gardens to yours!
A laughing matter: Local comedian to record album from Hillsborough shows
All joking aside, Jeremy Alder’s early dalliances in comedy nearly ended up in a bad place. “I was very sarcastic as a teenager,” Alder recalled. “It was a sort of defense mechanism. I think I took it a little too far. When I was 16, a bunch of my friends got together and had a sarcasm intervention with me. They told me I needed to dial it back.”
In the Spirit: Cook’s Mill Whiskey | Listen
If you ask most American whiskey fans where the spirit has its deepest roots, you’ll likely hear a resounding call for Kentucky. But it’s actually North Carolina that serves as the birthplace of American whiskey, since the first documented whiskey production took place there in the 1630s—Kentucky and Tennessee didn’t see their first distilleries open until the 1790s. Even into the late 1800s, North Carolina had the largest concentration of whiskey distilleries, but Prohibition knocked the state’s production down to almost nothing.
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