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Hudson is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Located in Caldwell County in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town will celebrate its centennial in less than three years. Comer discusses the history of the community and its current economic status.
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Grifton, in Pitt County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the town's history, its surviving the flood in the wake of Hurricane Floyd, and its well-known Shad Festival.
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Mebane, a town on the Alamance/Orange County line, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. For over one hundred years the now-closed White Furniture Company bolstered the town's economy. Today Mebane flourishes because of its location between the Triangle and the Triad.
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Benson is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town was incorporated in 1887 and began as a farming community and mule-trading center. This part of town history is remembered each September as the town celebrates Benson Mule Days. Today, location at the junction of interstates 40 and 95 gives the town a solid economic base and makes it attractive to businesses seeking to relocate.
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Winston-Salem native George Hamilton IV has performed around the world for nearly fifty years. He was on his way to becoming a pop star but gave it up for his real love, country music. He is a member of the Grand Old Opry in Nashville and has received many music awards.
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James Taylor's fame as a singer/songwriter is worldwide. In North Carolina his roots stretch back to Scottish immigrants in 1790 New Bern. Comer profiles the career of this musician whose song \"Carolina on My Mind\" has become \"the unofficial anthem of the state.\"
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Comer examines the lives of the Trantham family of Haywood County and the Cockman family of Catawba County, two families who are carrying their music, stories, and traditions into the twenty-first century.
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Manns Harbor is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town was named for a German sea captain, Charles Mann. The Dare County town is known for its custom boatbuilding.
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Union Grove in Iredell County is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The community is the site of North America's oldest running old-time fiddler's contest.
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South Mills, in Camden County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the history of the town, which is situated on the historic Dismal Swamp Canal.
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Fontana Village in Graham County is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the history of the town, the building of the dam, and the town's popularity as a tourist destination.
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The North Carolina Sea Turtle Protection Program, which is run by the Wildlife Resources Commission, seeks to protect sea turtle nests and hatchlings and to collect mortality data. Comer describes how the Holden Beach Sea Turtle Watch caries out this mission and how stranded, sick, and injured sea turtles are handled.
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Thousands of North Carolinians who listen to and enjoy jazz are unaware that many world-famous performers are from the state. They include Percy Heath, Billy Taylor, Maceo Parker, John Coltrane, and Thelonius Monk.
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Comer recounts the past and present history of the county seat of Union County. In this town founded in 1844, William Henry Belk founded a department store and the high school drum major was Jesse Helms.
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Rowan County in the 1700s was a junction of two major roads: the Great Pennsylvania Wagon Road and the Warrior's Trading Path. Records of who passed through, who settled, then moved on, were stored in the courthouse at Salisbury. Through the single-handed efforts of Mary Elizabeth Gaskill McCubbins, who amassed over 150,000 pieces of genealogical information, the records were made more accessible to the public. Today the Rowan Public Library's genealogical section, with 4,000 microfilms, 20,000 books, and the McCubbins' Collection, is one of the nation's top genealogical research libraries.
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