In front of them, dark clouds of smoke rose up from an area choked with willows and alders, the site of the old Moravian Children’s Home. Most of the structures that remained were being burned ...

The tribe still maintains a cemetery there, although it is owned by the Moravian Church in America. The Munsee hope to set up a nonprofit organization to take over ownership of the cemetery.

Forsyth County Rep. Donnie Lambeth is co-sponsoring House Bill 124, which aims to designate the Moravian cookie as North Carolina's official state cookie. The bill passed its first reading today ...