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Roderick Funches discussing farming in the Delta.
"Machines replaced people which led to unemployment meaning less jobs for the community but the port and the Mississippi River have provided jobs for the people in Rosedale."
The Power of the Port
Coffee Cupping
"There's a lot that goes into a cup of coffee."
S&D Coffee Cuppers
"Cabarrus Creamery started out all local."
The Way We Worked in Cabarrus County
"So whole families were engaged in raising the sheep, sheering the sheep, washing the wool, dyeing the wool, spinning it."
The Wheel Never Stops Turning
"The importance and prevalence of pottery in our Southern culture has molded a history full of clay and hard work."
Below the Pottery Line
"I can't imagine a world without butter."
A Butter Mold
How the Cole Single Hopper Plain View Planter Became Part of a Revolution
"We didn't have machines, we had horses and plows. We did everything by hand."
Planting Through History
Track & Field
"Even on the hardest days of practice, you always know that your team has your back."
Track & Field Teams Unite in Iowa
Eugenia Powell Deas sits in her chair.
"I was the only black woman welder. I wanted to do something besides clean and cook so I wanted to weld."
Life as a Female Welder During World War II
"Water defines us, it cleanses us, it rejuvenates us."
Mythmakers: Performance Inspired by Water
"I was born at home not in a hospital."
Life Line: All About Dorcas Hodges
"My dad was a builder and part-time farmer, as most people were here. "
Stone Mountain Store: Center of the Bethel Community

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