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Old Salem by Candlelight

Share the seasonal traditions with this historic North Carolina community.

Tanner C. Latham

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Holiday Time Machine

Our tour group silently shuffles over cobblestone streets. The ambient light from the windows of centuries-old buildings boosts the glimmer of the guide’s lantern. Throughout the rest of Winston-Salem, brake lights burn red in traffic lines and asphalt parking lots fill to capacity. Not here in Old Salem. Here, I have gone back 200 years--temporarily removing myself from the fray.