S1 E3: As High As You Can Get

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S1 E3: As High As You Can Get

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Jul 27, 2017

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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.

Released:

Jul 27, 2017

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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
24 min listen
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 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
14 min listen
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
4 min listen
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
26 min listen
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
11 min listen
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
22 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
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
21 min listen
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
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
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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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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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
23 min listen
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
2 min listen
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 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
33 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
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
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
35 min listen
S3 E5: The Concert on Powder Horn Mountain: Curtis Johnson fell in love with music while growing up in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. But when he gave up his job as a disc jockey to support his family, he held on to his dream. Now, he puts on small house-style concerts in an out-of-the-way place,... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
33 min listen
S4 E1: 1,175 Miles: The new season of our award-winning podcast begins with some fairly basic questions. What is the Mountains-to-Sea Trail? How was it created? Who were the first people to hike the whole thing? And who would hike all 1,175 miles of it today? In this... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
36 min listen
S3 E1: Symbolism: In 2001, some state lawmakers were engaged in a less-than-sweet debate: Which berry should be named the official berry of North Carolina? We tracked down the teacher and fourth-graders who started it all with a class project and got a lot more than... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
32 min listen
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
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
48 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
S3 E4: How To Get To Space: Christina Koch was once a kid growing up in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Now, she's living on the International Space Station. In this episode, we go back to school to find out how she turned her dream of becoming an astronaut into reality. Some... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
27 min listen
S3 Bonus: Moving To Mayberry: What do outsiders see when they look at North Carolina? In this bonus episode, host Jeremy Markovich turns to The Andy Griffith Show for answers, and talks to a woman who worked on the series, then moved to the real-life town that the fictional... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
10 min listen
S3 E3: Stop Making Cents: A woman from Mooresville, North Carolina became Mecklenburg County’s first black nurse. Then she became a prolific and well-respected artist. Along the way, she got President Franklin D. Roosevelt to sit for her, and the relief sculpture she created... by North Carolina Rabbit Hole
30 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

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S1 E3: As High As You Can Get

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