A blend of oral history and memoir with a good dose of quirky humor, the Tar Heel Traveler is a celebratory look at the people and places of North Carolina. Mason is the TV reporter-the Tar Heel Traveler-who journeys across North Carolina profiling colorful characters and out-of-the-way places.

Celebrated veteran television reporter Scott Mason loves nothing more than being on the road in North Carolina. Which is why he almost bounced right out of his boss's office and skipped back to the newsroom a few years back when told, "We'd like you to be the Tar Heel Traveler . . . Do the stories you love to do. The state is your oyster." He has now done more than five hundred such stories, and Tar Heel Traveler brings together thirty of the best. This is an unforgettable collection of colorful people, things, and places-from a sacred mailbox perched on a sand dune at Sunset Beach to the most wicked cinema villain of all time, Cowboy Coward of Deliverance fame, who, as it turns out, is in fact a scraggly backwoodsman who still knows how to play his part.