North Carolina Rabbit Hole newsletter:
Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him
September 2021 | One of the world’s most recognizable men walked into a beer joint and nobody recognized him. Here is how that happened, according to the people who were there and the owner who’s mad that he wasn’t.
The story behind an Outer Banks house that collapsed into the ocean
May 2022 | Who owned it? Why didn’t anybody move it or tear it down? Why is it there? And who has to clean it up? We’ve teamed up with the Island Free Press to answer questions big and small about a viral video.
Clogger, TikTok Thyself
May 2022 | Zeb Ross works the overnight shift and didn’t use social media. Then someone shot video of him clogging with his dance team at a festival. Millions of views later, he’s just trying to keep it real.
An obituary for the man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
January 2023 | Dr. Jack ReVelle disarmed two hydrogen bombs that accidentally fell near Goldsboro during the Cold War. But a military career of cleaning up nuclear accidents may have cut his life short.
Award Winning Work:
A Long Way To The Sea: 200 Miles. Eight Days. One River.
Our State | November 2016 | Winner: 2017 National City and Regional Magazine Award for Multiplatform Storytelling. Listed as a notable story in Best American Sports Writing 2017
Elegy of a Race Car Driver: The Good Times, Hard Life, and Shocking Death of Dick Trickle
SB Nation | July 2013 | Featured in Best American Sports Writing 2014, longform.org‘s Best of 2013: Sports
Blind Faith: What does it take for a blind man to hike the 2,175 mile Appalachian Trail?
Charlotte magazine | January 2009 | Winner: 2010 National City and Regional Magazine Award for Personality Profile, 2011 Green Eyeshade Award for Magazine Feature Writing, 2010 Clarion Award, Magazine Feature Article (Circulation 100,000 or less)
Podcast:
What Once Was Lost: A trip to a cemetery that’s only reachable by boat reveals a story about progress, a national park, promises made, and promises broken.
Away Message | August 2017
The Most Remote: in search of the state’s most remote spot.
Away Message | July 2017
Notable Writing:
Our State magazine
The Final Voyage of the Agnes E. Fry
Our State | June 2017
Don’t Stop Bo’lievin’: How Bojangles’ Went From a Chicken and Biscuits Joint to a Southern Obsession
Our State | April 2017
The Unlikely Ornament King of Gastonia
Our State | December 2016
A Chef’s Life, A Chef’s Town
Our State | November 2015
Politico
I Ran the Worst 5K of My Life So I Could Explain Gerrymandering to You
Politico | November 2017
The Mainstreaming of Nikki Haley
Politico | February 2016
Wharton Magazine
Inside the Curious Mind of Jonah Berger
Wharton Magazine | Spring/Summer 2017
CBS Sports
Lost Dawgs: Twenty years after Art Modell’s public betrayal, has Cleveland moved on?
CBS Sports | November 2015
President Tressel: The man who rebuilt Ohio State football is back where he first built his legend.
CBS Sports | December 2015
SB Nation
Ghosts of North Wilkesboro: One place gave us NASCAR, moonshine and Junior Johnson. So what happened when they all left?
SB Nation | March 2015
Over The Edge: Once a year, hundreds of people voluntarily jump off one of America’s largest bridges and into West Virginia’s New River Gorge.
SB Nation | November 2013 (Photographs and writing)
Charlotte magazine
Frayed Pride and Fried Pickles
Charlotte magazine | April 2011
Other Outlets
How I Convinced A Powerball Jackpot Winner That He Lost
The Billfold | January 2016
An In-Depth Look At The Picture That Killed The Dab
The Cauldron | December 2015