Breaking Bread: 60 incredible stories that are literally just around the corner

What makes a great profile story? Maybe it is the chance to slow down and spend time with a person in an age when we all seem to be living at ever-faster speeds, or maybe it is as just as simple as hearing a great story that has the double benefit of being completely true.

We meet some truly interesting people in the journo-trade. Artists, politicians, tradespeople, musicians, writers, athletes and they're just the ones that fit easily into a category. Of course, the great trade-off is that oftentimes the meeting part feels too short to really understand someone's story. Maybe that's what's so great about these longer yarns from Herald journalist Scott Bevan.

Each week, Scott sits down to break bread with the Hunter’s most interesting people. Like so many profile stories, these ones are intriguing, complicated, and illuminate the people working away quietly (and sometimes not-so-quietly) to make Newcastle and the Hunter what it is.

Over the past several months, the Herald has mapped out where these stories happened, and what it shows is that sometimes there really is an incredible story just around the corner.