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Denton, a small town (population about 1,700) located in Davidson County, is Our State Magazine's featured Tar Heel Town of the Month.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 7, Dec 2013,
p42-44, 46-48, 50, 52, il
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Ashley Christensen is one of the busiest chefs in Raleigh. She opened her first restaurant, Poole's, in 2007 and has been a semifinalist for the James Beard Award in 2013 and 2014. Since 2007, she has opened five more venues in Raleigh with three more planned for 2014.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 3, Mar 2014,
p6, 8-9, por
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17761
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Greene County is only 170,200 acres, and fifty-four percent of that land, or 92,000 acres, is farmland. Farmers in Greene County grown a variety of commodities from sweet potatoes, grains, and peaches to prawns.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 5, Oct 2012,
p154-158, 160-162, 164-166, 168, 170, 172, f
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17775
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The Golden Alexander is a member of an elite club. The native plant is the current North Carolina Wildflower of the Year.
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17058
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Mitchell Minges began Hospitality Mints as a family business in Boone in 1976. These are the little mints customers find as they pay their bills on leaving the restaurant. The company uses 50,000 pounds of sugar to produce seven million mints each day, which adds up to over a billion each year.
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"Absent from North Carolina’s landscape for 80 years, the plant with a hundred uses finds its way back to the fields." Ryan Patterson currently farms 1,000 acres in the Broadway community near Sanford and along the Harnett County line. In 2016, he began investigating hemp production and a year later secured one of the first hemp-growing licenses in North Carolina. He is co-owner of Broadway Hemp Company. David Suchoff with North Carolina State University says a plus to tobacco with hemp production is that the infrastructure requirements are nearly the same.
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The Miss North Carolina Pageant began in 1937 and this year celebrates its 75th anniversary. The pageant began as a swimsuit contest but has since evolved into a scholarship contest. Maria Beale Fletcher is the only North Carolinian to win the Miss America Pageant. Hughes recounts highlights from the seventy-five years.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 6, Nov 2012,
p67-70, 72, 74, 76-79, il, por
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Since its onset, the state’s pageant has transformed from focusing on beauty, as a swimsuit contest, to balancing attention to beauty and brains, by including a scholarship grant. The group gathered for the event’s diamond anniversary represented career paths traveled after their journey down the Miss North Carolina runway. They included movie stars, songwriters, lawyers, and physicians. The alumna earning the distinction all crowned Miss North Carolina hope for was Maria Beale Fletcher, voted Miss North Carolina and Miss America.
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The Hillsborough BBQ Company is not your traditional barbecue restaurant. Walk in the door to a place with stained glass windows, hardwood floors, and a full bar, then smell the smoky, wood-fired barbecue, and you know you're in the right place. Joel Bohlin and Tommy Stann own the restaurant.
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19650
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The Maypop, or Passiflora incarnate, is a native vine that has intricate flowers and pods that pop. It is known by another name, passionflower, and grows in every county in the state.
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19412
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Morehead City, the hub of Carteret County, is featured in Our State Magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section. Among the things to see there are Floyd's 1921 Restaurant; Dee Gee's Gifts and Books, the oldest independently owned bookstore in the state; and the Ruddy Duck Tavern.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 11, Apr 2013,
p34-36, 38, 40, 42-46, il
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15593
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Hughes explains why the persimmon, which grows wild, is loaded with natural sugar, is delightful to the taste, and can't be eaten till it falls to the ground, is our most peculiar fruit.
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17787
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Most people might not think much about their table salt, but salt from different locations has different textures and flavors. Take, for example, the unique sea salt from the Outer Banks of North Carolina--a special occasion ingredient.
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Honda Aircraft, a subsidiary of Honda Motors, was founded in 2006 and is headquartered at Greensboro's Piedmont Triad International Airport. The HondaJet is the company's first general-aviation aircraft and Honda anticipates FAA certificate early in 2015 with delivery for the first 100 orders to begin thereafter. The plane can carry up to seven, including crew, and costs $4.5 million. Hughes explains why Honda chose Greensboro and what they expect to produce in the coming years.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 34 Issue 2, Feb 2014,
p70-75, il
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Shearline Boatworks, located in Morehead City, builds custom-made boats. Depending on the size, the boat's completion can take from one to three years. The company began in 2000 and is currently at work on boat number 31.
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