

Step back in time at retro Mother Earth Motor Lodge in Kinston, NC
Fun and funky describe the work of love that Kinston, North Carolina, entrepreneur Stephen Hill completed downtown: turning the long-vacant Kinston Mid-Town Motor Lodge into the hip, new yet retro Mother Earth Motor Lodge, where guests who pull up can’t help but smile. The lodge is a new icon in this small, resurgent city in southeastern North Carolina, lately best-known as home to Chef and the Farmer Restaurant of PBS-TV’s “A Chef’s Life” fame before the show wrapped its fif