- Title
- Our State
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- Date
- September 2001
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Our State
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interstate .
eateries
Wouldn't you love to have a
list of restaurants that are
near the interstates and
serve home cooking? The
fourth in a series, this story
takes you from the Yadkin
River to Concord via
Interstate 85 — and takes
your appetite right off the
highway.
M D.G. M.AKIIN
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HARRIS
On this morning, nty friend Dick I iuffman and I
arc feasting on a country breakfast of sausage, eggs,
grits biscuits, toast, fruit, coffee, and juice. We arc
eating at Rufty Market, in one of those very old
buildings in historic downtown Salisbury. Dick
practices law here. I le can walk to work from the
beautiful home he and his wife. Dale, restored a few
years ago.
Tile building in which we’re eating hasn’t
changed much in many, many years. For a moment,
I feel as though we have been transported back a
century, to a time when most people worked and
shopped close to where they lived.
Next door, O.O. Rutty’s General Store is open
for business — just the way the Rufty family has
been running it since 1905. Before breakfast. I
rummaged around the general store for 10 or I 5
minutes, putting my hands into the multiple buck¬
ets of colorful seeds, examining the marbles and
other simple toys, resting out the tools, and seeing
many other old-time "dry goods” that I hadn’t seen
for sale m years.
When I saw a pair of long john underwear hang-
86 Our State September 2001