A Preview of Away Message: Season 2

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A Preview of Away Message: Season 2

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In the next season of Away Message, we're heading out on a scavenger hunt of sorts. We're looking for hard to find places, lost artifacts, secrets, missing people, and forgotten stories. New episodes begin April 3, 2018. Find all of Season 1's episodes and information about Season 2 at away.ourstate.com.

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Mar 29, 2018

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A podcast that goes the distance to reveal hard-to-find stories across North Carolina. Join Our State magazine's Jeremy Markovich as he travels across the state to uncover remote places, lost artifacts, overlooked people, and forgotten stories.

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Episode 3: As High As You Can Get: We go way up above the ground on a television broadcast tower, the tallest structure in North Carolina, to meet the surprisingly down-to-earth man who regularly climbs to the top. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 5: 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. Along the way, we meet the woman who kept hope alive, and kept a sacred spot from being forgotten. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 6: Remote or Knott: Host Jeremy Markovich travels to Knotts Island, North Carolina -- a unique place with colorful characters -- where nobody can seem to agree about whether it's a remote place, or not. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 2: Wave If You Can See Me: We travel to a remote place, only a quarter-mile off of the North Carolina coast, that kept a Civil War shipwreck hidden for a century. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Coming Soon: "Away Message": What happens when you travel to North Carolina's most remote spots? Our State magazine's Jeremy Markovich traveled to eight destinations across the state, from mountaintops to islands, from swamps to shipwrecks to see what you find in hard-to-find... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 3.5: Out On The Outer Banks: The weather's perfect, but a power outage has driven all of the visitors and vacationers off of the southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. This week, people on Ocracoke Island talk about what happens when their tourist destination suddenly becomes... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 4: Dismally Yours: A trip into the Great Dismal Swamp reveals a lot of biting bugs, black water you can drink, and secrets about the runaway slaves who once called this remote place home. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
25 min listen
S2 E3: The Riches Underneath Charlotte: In this supersized episode, host Jeremy Markovich goes looking for Charlotte's original gold mines, and then gets inside a vault that's full of billions of dollars to understand how North Carolina's biggest city ended up being the place where the... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S2 E2: The Unsinkable Floating Houses of Fontana: On Fontana Lake, in far western North Carolina, sit hundreds of floating cabins, meant for fishing and weekend getaways. But when the homes were threatened with removal, the owners banded together and took their fight to Washington, DC, where they... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 8: Short Trip, Long Walk: In the final episode of the season, host Jeremy Markovich tries to figure out whether his own home is a remote place by walking 14 miles from his house to his office. Along the way, he discovers the people and places that are overlooked from his car. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S3 E8: The Rookie: Jeff Postell was a 21-year-old police officer when he made an arrest in the middle of the night in a small North Carolina town. That arrest ended a five year manhunt for the Olympic Park Bomber, Eric Rudolph, and changed Postell's life in an instant.... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 1: The Most Remote: Host Jeremy Markovich sets his sights on Western North Carolina in search of the state's most remote spot. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 5.5: Total Eclipse of the Tar: In this bonus episode, we talk about what we're left with after a brief, maybe once-in-a-lifetime event in North Carolina: A total solar eclipse. Plus, we gathered up the best reactions to the event. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S2 E1: The Dream Returns: Dr. Martin Luther King once gave a speech in Rocky Mount, North Carolina that energized the city and changed the lives of the people in attendance. Now, after more than 50 years, a forgotten recording of that speech has resurfaced, and the discovery... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Episode 7: Blurred Lines: In this episode, host Jeremy Markovich visits the small brass disc at the western edge of the state that's become a strange tourist attraction, and finds out how remote terrain caused all sorts of problems for the people who drew North Carolina's borders. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
28 min listen
S2 Bonus: Deck Your Halls With Rauch Balls: In this special holiday episode, host Jeremy Markovich meets the man from Gastonia who became the world's largest manufacturer of Christmas ornaments and used his power to make North Carolina more tolerant of all religions. This story was adapted... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
27 min listen
S2 E7: Stealing Bill: North Carolina's priceless copy of the Bill of Rights is kept out of sight in a secure underground vault, and for good reason: It was once stolen, hidden away for more than 100 years, then recovered in a spectacular FBI raid. In this extended episode,... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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A Preview of Away Message: Season 2: In the next season of Away Message, we're heading out on a scavenger hunt of sorts. We're looking for hard to find places, lost artifacts, secrets, missing people, and forgotten stories. New episodes begin April 3, 2018. Find all of Season 1's... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S2 E4: How To Get Away With Murder (In 1892): What would happen if you stood in one state, then shot and killed someone in another? That scenario actually took place along the Tennessee-North Carolina border more than 100 years ago, and the murderer got away with it. But what's the real story?... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
34 min listen
S2 E8: 32 Miles Off The Coast: In the finale of Season 2, host Jeremy Markovich takes a trip to a remote place he's been trying to visit for years: Frying Pan Tower, a decommissioned Coast Guard light station that sits far out in the Atlantic Ocean. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S2 E6: The Round of Golf That Changed A City: In 1955, a dentist and five of his friends played a round of golf. They were black. The course was white-only. What happened next changed the course of one man's life, and in turn, helped integrate an entire town. "His Eye Is On The Sparrow" by Peter... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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Bonus: The Voyager Who Didn't Call Back: In this bonus episode, host Jeremy Markovich finally hears back from a guy who never returned his call, and gets the greatest excuse he’s ever heard. Plus, we find out what the future holds for this podcast. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S3 E7: An Island Of Your Own: Davis Island wasn’t always an island. In the early 1900s, a hurricane cut a path through a peninsula that stuck out into Core Sound, separating a stately home from the mainland. Years later, a man achieved his childhood dream of living in that... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S2 E9: Florence: One month after Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina, we bring you three stories of strength, resilience, and perseverance in the face of the storm. If you'd like to help victims of the hurricane, we suggest: American Red Cross:... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S2 Bonus: The Bridge To Nowhere: In this bonus episode, host Jeremy Markovich visits a majestic bridge that, for years, was never connected to any road, and finds out why its construction almost led to riots. Read more about the bridge in this paper from Dr. Barak Richman. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
11 min listen
A Preview of Away Message: Season 3: In the new season of Our State magazine's podcast, host Jeremy Markovich travels across North Carolina in search of the strange, the weird, the unknown, and the forgotten. Highlights include a strange political fight, the effort to find a mythical... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
2 min listen
S3 E6: Searching for Squatch In All The Wrong Places: A New Yorker named Stephen Barcelo moved to a small town in northeastern North Carolina. Then he started seeing ghosts. Then bigfoot showed up. In this episode, we visit Littleton, go on a search for a hard-to-find creature, and find out what it... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
29 min listen
Replay: What Once Was Lost: From Season 1: A trip to a cemetery that's only reachable by boat reveals a story about progress, a national park, promises made, and promises broken. Along the way, we meet the woman who kept hope alive, and kept a sacred spot from being forgotten. by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
22 min listen
S2 E5: The Nuke They Left Behind: In 1961, a U.S. Air Force bomber crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina, and the two thermonuclear bombs on board fell to the ground. Host Jeremy Markovich talks with the man who was sent to make sure those bombs didn't explode, and finds out why the... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
30 min listen
S4 Bonus: The Voice of George Simkins (Replay): In 1955, a dentist and five of his friends played a round of golf. They were black. The course was white-only. What happened next changed the course of one man's life, and in turn, helped integrate an entire town. This originally premiered in July... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
32 min listen

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A Holiday Story: Deck Your Halls With Rauch Balls: In this special holiday episode, host Jeremy Markovich meets the man from Gastonia who became the world's largest manufacturer of Christmas ornaments and used his power to make North Carolina more tolerant of all religions. This episode was originally... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S4 Bonus: How to Hike, with Jennifer Pharr Davis: In this bonus episode, host Jeremy Markovich talks with long-time hiking guide Jennifer Pharr Davis about how anyone can prepare for and pull off a trip on a trail, from day-trippers to thru-hikers on North Carolina's Mountains-to-Sea Trail. Read ... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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S4 E6: A Trail Town Without A Trail: In this episode, we travel to Roseboro, a small eastern North Carolina town that sits on the route of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail but doesn't actually have any good places to hike. Yet. We also meet the trail angels that hikers depend on to get to the... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
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