Mast General Store Blog

Each year, Columbia Sportswear teams with Mast General Store to gather gently worn coats and jackets for our neighbors who need them for the coldest part of the year. Columbia...

My grandmother was a teacher, and she used the word primer, pronounced “primmer,” a lot. There were math primers to get the basics of operations, English primers to learn the...

While all Mast Store locations are intentionally placed in historic structures, several of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Columbia itself is one of the oldest...

There are so many questions to wonder about these days. Like, who was the first person brave enough to eat a chicken’s egg? Or why do some people think cilantro...

Whether you come from near or far, fall festivals offer the occasion to take in local flavor – sometimes in the literal sense at, say, a fair or an apple...

Did you know the State of North Carolina’s official folk dance is clogging? Yep, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted clogging as the state’s folk dance and shagging as the...