‘‘Where should I send you to know the Soul of the South? I’ll send you to the Mast General Store.” So wrote Charles Kuralt in a 1986 column. Do you miss the old country store? If you do, you’ll love the Mast General store in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. It has a storied history and it anchors a chain of old timey general stores like “community centers” of days of yore. Eleven other Mast Generals revive memories of the general store down South,

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