The Yellow Pine Harmonica Festival is a free, three-day event July 31-August 2 in Yellow Pine. Featuring 28 bands, family activities and harmonica classes, the festival helps support the Yellow ...

The short answer: no. According to experts at North Carolina State University, that same yellow pine pollen that has coated almost everything recently is too large of a grain to be allergenic.

While other trees, grasses and weeds add to the mix of particulates, it’s pine pollen that descends like a yellow curtain across central and Eastern North Carolina in late February to early March.