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10/29/2026

He started by sweeping the floors for $10 a week. By 1960 he owned the counter. 🥪

Charles Dowell began working at the Snappy Lunch in Mount Airy in 1943. The lunch counter has been open since 1923 at 125 North Main Street, and by 1960 Dowell owned it. The house specialty is the pork chop sandwich, which Our State magazine has credited as the draw, and the "Tenderator," the machine used to tenderize the cutlets, is part of the lore.

The counter also has a place in television lore. A local legend ties the name to a Mount Airy story, and the Andy Griffith Show mentioned the lunch counter in an episode that aired November 14, 1960. 🍽️

Dowell died in 2012 at 84. A town counter that old is not just a restaurant. It is a place where the same story gets passed across the same stools.

What counter or diner in your town has its own legend?

10/12/2026

08/31/2026

The rock you are looking at spent most of its existence underground. It only came up because everything on top of it wore away. 🪨

Stone Mountain sits on the northern edge of Wilkes County and reaches into southeastern Alleghany, about seventeen miles northeast of North Wilkesboro. The state describes it as a dome shaped granite mass rising seven hundred feet above its base, made of light grey medium grained biotite granite, and calls it the largest plutonic monadnock in North Carolina. The granite formed from magma several miles down in the earth during the Paleozoic. As erosion stripped away the rock above it, the release of pressure let the mass push upward and intrude into the older rock around it. The curving sheets peeling off its shoulders are that same pressure still unloading.

It was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974. Wolf Rock and Cedar Rock inside the park are built the same way, and having three of them sitting this close to the Blue Ridge escarpment is what makes geologists take the place seriously. 🌲 There are four waterfalls, with Stone Mountain Falls dropping more than two hundred feet down Big Sandy Creek, seventeen miles of trout water, better than two hundred species of vascular plants, and thirteen rare plant and animal species recorded in or near the park.

The human part is just as good. Families of English, German, Irish, French and Scots-Irish descent farmed these coves and built their own mills, churches and schools, and the restored Hutchinson Homestead still stands at the base of the mountain. The park itself started in 1969 with 1,463 acres, some of it donated by local people whose land value became the state's matching money for federal grants. It is 14,351 acres now.

08/12/2026

08/12/2026

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08/08/2026

Mount Airy is open and ready to welcome you. ❤️

Like many communities across our region, we experienced flooding in some areas, and the cleanup continues. We are incredibly thankful for the first responders, public works crews, volunteers, and neighbors who have worked tirelessly to help our community recover.

The good news is that Downtown Mount Airy is open, and our shops, restaurants, lodging properties, museums, and many of the attractions you know and love are welcoming visitors. While a few areas remain temporarily closed as recovery efforts continue, the flooding was localized, and there are still plenty of ways to experience the charm of Mayberry.

If you've been thinking about a visit, now is a wonderful time to support our local businesses and the people who make this community so special. Every meal, overnight stay, and purchase makes a difference.

08/08/2026

Girls Just Want To Have Fun!! They certainly did💖Enjoying their shopping day at Ofelia’s🛍️👒from hats to wraps, tops and more….it was great meeting you ladies🤗🤩🤗🤩🤗🤩🤗🤩Thank You for shopping with Us💖

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