Today, I’m sharing a bonus episode of Made in Carolina—a moment to pause before we begin the Lake Norman series. This episode is about the Catawba River. About the people who lived alongside it. And about the vision that would eventually reshape it into something entirely different. Before Lake Norman became what we know today—a place for boating, fishing, and lakefront living—it was something else entirely. A river that sustained lives. A landscape filled with farms, roads,