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The actors are not superstars. The budgets are often shoestring. Yet the creators of independent films within the state and without produce bold, original, and audacious shorts, features, and documentaries on topics Hollywood often avoids. Many independent films are showcased at the state's film festivals. Comer profiles the DoubleTake Film Festival at Durham's Carolina Theater, the Cucalous Film Festival in Wilmington, and the RiverRun International Film Festival in Brevard.
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The Qualla Arts and Crafts Museum in Cherokee is one of the best centers of Native American art in the country. Creations by Cherokee craftsmen are displayed and sold. Also available is work by other Native Americans, including Navajo and Pueblo.
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The Mountain Heritage Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee contains over 10,000 items pertaining to folk songs and dance, handicrafts, and oral traditions of the Southern Appalachian region.
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“Unto These Hills†is a popular historical pageant performed in Cherokee, North Carolina. Begun in 1950, the pageant is one of fourteen outdoor dramas in the state. California places a distant second with eight outdoor dramas. “Unto These Hills†attracted an audience of 107,000 in its first year and 151,000 by 1953. The production is so popular because it sheds light on an area of American history that is often forgotten: the forced removal of Indian tribes in the east.
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Throughout the mountains of Western North Carolina, craftsmanship collided with folk music to create a unique sound. At the oldest folk festival, started by Bascom Lamar Lunsford in 1928, one can hear the styling's of these artist whose folksongs not only provide entertainment but carry on traditional stories. Examples of the state's most famous folk artist are Marilyn McMinn McCredie of Asheville and Jim Trantham of Canton.
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\"American Cameo\" pottery was a highly prized art pottery produced by Asheville native Walter B. Stephen at his Pisgah Forest Pottery. The cameo style of pottery uses raised paintings applied with a sharp brush and then glazed. Stephen's work was well known throughout the United States before his death in 1961. The art form is not being lost, as other pottery artists are producing cameo work. Marjorie Pittman and Judy Petrie produce \"Carolina Cameo\" in their Catawba County studios, while Rodney Leftwich produces cameo pottery at his Asheville workshop.
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The Homespun Museum was recently opened on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. The museum focuses on Biltmore Industries, which was founded in 1901 by Mrs. George Vanderbilt. She organized the business to produce traditional handmade mountain crafts and to provide employment for those living on the estate. Mrs. Vanderbilt sold Biltmore Industries to Fred Seely in 1917. Seely moved the company to his Grove Park Inn in Asheville. Seely's firm produced high-quality, hand-spun woolens that were worn by three different First Families: the Coolidges, the Hoovers, and the Roosevelts. In addition to its display on Biltmore Industries, the Homespun Museum exhibits other mountain arts, such as Cherokee Indian crafts, mountain baskets, Appalachian folk art, blown glass and pottery.
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The Appalachian Consortium was formed in 1971 to preserve the Appalachian mountain heritage of music, speech, literature, and traditions. The original members of the consortium were Appalachian State University, East Tennessee State University, Mars Hill College, and Lees-McRae College. The consortium now has a board of directors and five committees: administration, regional, cooperation and development, heritage and folklife, publications, and Appalachian studies. The most important accomplishment of the organization is the creation of the Appalachian Consortium Press, which has published more than twenty-five books, fueling enthusiasm for the cultural and history of the area.
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The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown is known primarily for its instruction in handcrafts, particularly wood-carving. Campbell went to college in Massachusetts and worked as a teacher in Alabama and Tennessee, and later served as president of Piedmont College in North Georgia. His work in rural Southern communities convinced him that schools were not preparing students to remain in their communities. While traveling through western North Carolina with his wife, Campbell heard about folk schools in Denmark and came to believe an adaptation of these schools would work well in the Southern mountains. Campbell died suddenly in 1919 but his wife continued his work, visiting the schools in Denmark and other European countries and locating a site on which to build his school. Brasstown was chosen and a merchant there, Fred O. Scroggs, gave ninety acres of land including a farmhouse which is still in use today.
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Civil War governor, Zebulon Baird Vance, was born in Reems Creek Valley outside Asheville in 1830. The Vance Birthplace was built around 1795, and has been a state historic site for twenty years. The outer walls of the main log house have been reconstructed, but most of the interior of the house is original. There are also six log outbuildings on the site. The house has workshops for students and teachers, including how to dip candles, cook over an open fire, and hand weave.
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The Shelton House in Waynesville is home to the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts. The museum group purchased the house from Charles E. Ray, Jr., in 1978. Cherokee Indian crafts and artifacts are on display, as are handicrafts from well-known artisans of the state. State grants funded restoration of the house, and the museum is open from May 1st to November 15th each year.
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North Carolina has been one of the nation's leaders in the production of homemade pottery for more than two centuries. In Catawba Valley, only one pottery craftsman remains. Burlon B. Craig of Henry opens his kiln only three or four times a year, and collectors come from all over the country to buy his pieces. Five-gallon jugs that now sell for $20 once sold for only $.50. Craig still digs his own clay and refuses to use commercial glazes on his pottery. An entire chapter of the POTTERS OF THE CATAWBA VALLEY, published in 1980 by the Ceramic Circle of Charlotte, is devoted to Craig.
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Working on her turntable, Betty Kendall of Haywood County makes small lifelike animals out of clay. Her husband, Jim, makes jars and bowls on which Betty mounts her animals. Currently, the Kendall's work can be purchased at fifteen sales outlets in five states.
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Founded in 1901, and originally called the Biltmore Estate Industries, Biltmore Homespun still turns out hand-woven cloth. Now owned by Harry Blomberg, Biltmore Homespun�s wool is sought after by America�s elite. U.S. Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, and Roosevelt all wore cloth made at Biltmore Homespun, as did John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Administered by the Travel and Tourism Division of the State Department of Commerce in Raleigh, North Carolina currently has five Welcome Centers on its borders. Called information specialists, the women who work at the centers dispense information regarding tourist sites and distances to various attractions. They estimate about half of the out-of-state visitors are visiting North Carolina for the first time.
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