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31293
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Hurricane Floyd hit the North Carolina coast on Wednesday, September 15, and was one of the most costly storms the state has ever experienced. This article discusses how eastern North Carolina communities and electric cooperatives endured the impacts of Hurricane Floyd.
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31107
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Research and the passing down of family stories have revealed many aspects of the secret signaling used to help slaves flee to freedom. One of the secret communication systems is the Underground Railroad Quilt Code. Symbols such as flying geese or monkey wrenches represented directions and tools required for the journey.
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30659
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The North Carolina Birding Trail covers 310 locations to observe birds. This article highlights several bird watching sites on the trail, and discusses how birding benefits local economies. Also provided is information on birding guides and links to birding resources.
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North Carolina's Highway Historical Marker Program, which celebrated its seventieth anniversary in 2006, is one of the oldest and most respected of its kind in the country. There are markers in all one hundred counties, over 1,440 currently. Gery describes twenty-eight markers that highlight the important role rural people and places have had in the state's history.
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This article reviews the rich history of oystering in North Carolina, details its contemporary problems, and reports on projects that are helping to restore the fishery. The North Carolina Coastal Federation is working to improve habitat and water quality.
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30645
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Electric cooperatives across North Carolina are engaged in making economic development loans, and proposing others, that amount to more than three-hundred million dollars. The funds are for community projects that include expanding local industries, extending sewer lines, installing energy-sufficient systems at schools, assisting medical and fire department facilities, and converting landfill gas into electricity.
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Some people still wonder if Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, might have been born in Rutherford County, North Carolina, rather than in Kentucky. This article discusses several theories regarding Lincoln’s birth place, his mother Nancy Hanks, and her relationship with Abraham Enloe.
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Known as “The Good Roads State,” North Carolina maintains the nation’s largest state highway system. Governor Locke Craig in the early 1900s set up the first highway commission, and in the 1920s, the so-called “mud tax” spurred widespread road construction. This article presents historical and personal accounts on the finest roads in North Carolina, from the Four Mile Desert Road in Perquimans County to Tatum Gap Road outside Andrews and Robbinsville.
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31164
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On the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers work on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a member of the organization, Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Internationale, flies an airplane across North Carolina and discusses how people can learn to fly at First in Flight Aviation at the Franklin County Airport. There are also fifty-five Be A Pilot flight schools in North Carolina.
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Over 8,000 representatives of the nation's electric cooperatives were present at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's 73rd Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida in February 2015. North Carolina participants were in the spotlight on multiple occasions as board members, sponsored students, and prize winners.
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3749
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Deregulation of electric utilities will have an effect on services. Concerns of consumers include who will supply the power and control transmission, what the rates will be, and how safety and reliability will be affected.
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31286
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North Carolina’s electric utilities show substantial progress in their Year 2000 (Y2K) readiness efforts, and most will be ready well in advance of the Y2K date rollover. Millennium-related date problems in most of the electric utility industry will be tested and fixed by June 30, 1999 to ensure that electric systems and computer programs remain on after January 1, 2000.
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On January 6, the village of Rodanthe in the Outer Banks of North Carolina celebrates Old Christmas. This is a tradition based on when the Gregorian calendar replaced the Julian calendar, changing the date of Christmas. Part of Rodanthe’s traditional festivities is a visit from Old Buck, a character based on the legend of an old wild bull that terrorized the village until a hunter got rid of him.
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This article features citizen reports of sightings in the North Carolina wilderness. Among the sightings are stories of a golden eagle, bald eagle, wild boar, bottlenose dolphins, bears, and red fox.
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Gery covers the route taken by General Edward E. Potter and some 800 Union soldiers on a six-day raid in July 1863 from New Bern to Rocky Mount and back, leaving a path of destruction and looted homes and businesses in their wake.
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