You can explain almost anything if you try hard enough. A trick of the light. A tall tale that grew in the retelling. A hoax nobody ever owned up to. California has a whole collection of legends that shrug off every explanation and keep right on going. Here are the ones that sound made up,…
If you ever drank Tang on a hot Kentucky summer day or stuck to a plastic-covered couch in your grandma’s living room, you probably grew up in the 1970s. It was a colorful, quirky time when kids played outside until the streetlights came on, and nobody ever heard the word “Wi-Fi.” While a lot has…
None of us got a notice in the mail when certain words fell out of favor. We just kept saying what we’d always said, the way our parents said it, until one day a grandkid winced and we couldn’t figure out why. Here are the everyday sayings that slipped from normal to touchy in Virginia…
Grow up in Texas, you grow up on stories. The lights in the desert. The thing under the bridge. The rider with no head. They get told at sleepovers and around campfires, dared into existence on Friday-night drives down dark country roads. Here are the Texas legends that still don’t have a tidy ending. The…
Sheetz was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1952. If you’re from Central PA, it’s been woven into your daily life for as long as you can remember. There are habits that come with growing up in Sheetz country that people from other regions simply don’t have a frame of reference for. Here are eight of…
Food Lion has been a North Carolina fixture since 1957, when it opened in Salisbury as plain old Food Town. Generations later, that red lion sits on every other corner, and most folks still leave money on the table every single trip. Here are the MVP tricks the savviest shoppers use and rarely share. Activate…
You can track a Florida hurricane two ways: One is the spaghetti models on the news. The other is the Publix water aisle. Once a storm gets named, the second method never fails. The shelves tell you everything. Here’s what Floridians grab the instant a hurricane gets its name. Water, and Lots of It The…
From Idaho’s suburbs to big cities across the country, Gen Z has faced school shootings, climate anxiety, and digital overload before they were old enough to vote. That kind of upbringing shapes a person. So, while they may not write checks or know how to use a landline, they’ve got wisdom to share with older…
Some of the best foodie things about a California childhood in the ’70s no longer exist. You can’t order them, you can’t drive to them. You can only remember them. Here are the California foods that vanished, and the memories that didn’t. Pup ‘N’ Taco Only in California could a stand sell you a taco,…
There’s a day every spring when Florida exhales. The snowbirds pack the Lincoln, point it north, and head home for the summer. And the very next morning, your Publix is a different store. Here’s everything that changes the second the winter crowd clears out. The Parking Lot Clears The first sign snowbird season is over…
