This summer, The News & Observer roamed North Carolina, searching for extraordinary stories in an extraordinary state.

A Traveler's Journal

Julie Ann Powers and her Explorer, Barlowe.

Photos by Roger Winstead and Chris Seward/The News & Observer

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Sept. 4 -- From border-to-border, Discoveries ventured around North Carolina this summer and succeeded in its mission: to find extraordinary people and places. By JULIE ANN POWERS.

Also in this series

• Splendid isolation (MASONBORO ISLAND, May 2 9).
• Cheap burgers in paradise (ORIENTAL, June 2).
• Home sweet hanger (LAKE NORMAN, June 9).
• The tiniest town (DELLVIEW, June 16).
• History in th making (SNOW CAMP, June 23).
• The mini pages (TRYON, June 30).
• Emerald City (HIDDENITE, July 7).
• Carolina cascades (SAPPHIRE, July 14).
• Lotus Land (FRANKLIN, July 21).
• THE Top Ten List (SUIT, July 28).
• Shrine of Trees (ROBBINSVILLE, Aug. 4).
• Branded by the past (LOVE VALLEY, Aug. 11).
• Fossil Finder (GARYSBURG, Aug. 18).
• Somerset Place (CRESWELL, Aug. 25).
• Ocean Drive (CAROVA BEACH, Sept. 1).

  About this series

  North Carolina Discoveries was a series that appeared throughout the summer of 1994 in several formats and media: in the printed and online editions of The News & Observer, in The N&O's CityLine audiotext service, and on WTVD television news b roadcasts.
  • Internet users around the world can access North Carolina Discoveries with supplementary material in hypertext form, via the World Wide Web. Those with Mosaic or Cello will also receive photographs, graphics, and audio and v ideo files.
  • The series is reported by Julie Ann Powers and edited by Ben Estes. Other chief contributors, all from The News & Observer staff, include photographers Chris Seward and Roger Winstead, news researcher Brooke Ca in, artist Charles Apple, online editor Bruce Siceloff and web content manager Eric Harris. Don Ross is the reporter for WTVD News Channel 11. Adam Hochberg of WUNC-FM serves as audio consultant and engineer. N&O mat erial is (c) 1994 The News and Observer Publishing Co.
  • Readers are invited to discuss the North Carolina Discoveries series with its creators and each other. Want to suggest a subject for a future story? Got a question? Let us hear fro m you:
  • Internet email: Julie Ann Powers of The N&O (juliep@nando.net), or Don Ross of WTVD (donr@nando.net).
  • NandO.net forum: NandO.net members can post comments to the DISCOVER forum.
  • Phone: Leave a voice mail message for Julie Ann Powers at 919-829-8964 or 1-800-365-6115, extension 8964.
  • Mail: The mailing address for Powers and her N&O colleagues is The News & Observer, P.O. Box 191, Raleigh, NC 27602 USA. < /ul _