title: Amazing North Carolina: Fascinating Facts, Entertaining Tales, Bizarre Happenings, and Historical Oddities about the Tarheel State (Amazing America)
author:  Theresa Jensen Lacey 
description: <DIV><DIV>"Lacey captures the stories and facts that help paint a colorful picture of life in the Old North State."&#160; &#151;North Carolina Governor Mike Easley</DIV></DIV>
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  _**A Walk To Remember**_
  
  
  _**Nicholas Sparks**_
  
  
  _**Chapter 1**_
  
  
  In 1958, Beaufort, North Carolina, which is located on the coast near Morehead
  City, was a place like many other small southern towns. It was the kind of
  place where the humidity rose so high in the summer that walking out to get
  the mail made a person feel as if he needed a shower, and kids walked around
  barefoot from April through October beneath oak trees draped in Spanish moss.
  
  
  People waved from their cars whenever they saw someone on the street whether
  they knew him or not, and the air smelled of pine, salt, and sea, a scent
  unique to the Carolinas. For many of the people there, fishing in the Pamlico
  Sound or crabbing in the Neuse River was a way of life, and boats were moored
  wherever you saw the Intracoastal Waterway. Only three channels came in on the
  television, though television was never important to those of us who grew up
  there. Instead our li