THE PLACES YOU'LL GO
1. Boone, NC - 204 miles 2. Charleston, SC - 216 miles 3. Lake Lure, NC - 225 miles 4. Beaufort, SC - 238 miles 5. Charlottesville, VA- 245 miles 6. Savannah, Ga.- 262 miles 7. Asheville, NC- 263 miles 8. Washington, DC-320 miles
some time, you'll want to visit the Ava Gard- ner Museum. The legendary actress was born just seven miles east of Smithfield. While you're in the area, take a short detour north of Selma to Atkinson's Mill, where cornmeal is ground to make the hush puppy mix used at some of the area's barbecue restaurants.
Continue east to Goldsboro, home to Wilber's Barbecue, where two U.S. presidents have eaten. Also popular is McCall's Barbecue and Seafood Restaurant. Farther east still, in Kin- ston, stop at King's Restaurant, home of the "pig in a puppy", a barbecue sandwich in a hush puppy bun. Mmm...
WINSTON-SALEM More than a century before Richard Joshua Reynolds came on horseback from Virginia to start his tobacco factory here in 1874, the area was settled by German-speaking Moravians. The persecuted Protestants called their new home Die Wachau, later called Wachovia, and they established the villages of Bethabara and Bethania. You still can see how they lived at Historic Bethabara Park, site of the area's first Moravian settlement, and at Old Salem, which was founded in 1766. H
