If you venture to Southern Pines, NC on Thanksgiving Day, and stand with horses and hounds on Hobby Field, you will hear the Episcopal priest begin his blessing: “Bless, O Lord, we beseech You, rider and horse and hound. Shield the rider from danger to life and limb, and may the chase bring to him… Read more
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It’s strawberry picking time in eastern North Carolina Strawberry picking is popular in eastern North Carolina in April and May. We have Strawberry farms here in Martin County, but they are already picked when you buy the At Big Mill B&B we feast on “just picked” strawberries in the months of April and May. If… Read more
2026 marks forty-seven years that the folks of Piney Grove Baptist Church in the Farm Life Community near Williamston, NC, have been performing this 90-minute outdoor drama of the life and death of Jesus Christ in the small Eastern North Carolina community of Farm Life, not very far from Big Mill Bed and Breakfast. This… Click to read more about the Outdoor Drama
Lake Mattamuskeet and the Pocosin Lakes of eastern North Carolina come alive every winter as thousands of tundra swans and snow geese make the journey from the Alaska tundra to our Inner Banks. Both refuges are an easy day trip from Big Mill Bed and Breakfast. Photo of Tundra Swans by Guy Livesay of Livesay… Click to read more about the Birds of Lake Mattumuskeet and Pocosin Lakes in eastern NC
Updated: 10/08/25 War wages every year on the first weekend in November as the Confederates attempt to defend Fort Branch against the Union Army. Fort Branch is located in Hamilton, North Carolina — just about 12 miles from Big Mill Bed and Breakfast. Reenactment is November 1 & 2, 2025 Yankee reenactor Mike Kerriker… Click here to read more about the Battle of Ft. Branch
(Updated October 2025). Sunnyside is an eastern North Carolina tradition and folks from all over the country come to taste these special, just-shucked oysters……………..OPENS September, 18, 2025, at 5:30!! They do it the same way they have been doing it since 1935, when Charles Roberson, Sr. first opened his restaurant and called it Sunnyside. As… Click to read more about Sunnyside Oyster Bar
SAD NOTE: We lost this wonderful eastern North Carolina treasure in 2018 to a devastating fire. The Cypress Grill is a place you just don’t want to miss; even if you don’t like fish. Sitting precariously on the banks of the Roanoke River in eastern North Carolina, it has welcomed diners for over fifty years… Click to read all about this fun Mom and Pop eatery
‘Bet you never even heard of Dinner on the Ground. Sadly, it has been called a fading tradition. It seems these days I look up and things I thought would always be there are gone or leaving. Dinner on the Ground is one of them. But for now they are still with us. For many years it has… Read more
