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Mrs. Nelia Hyatt of Asheville has hosted a traditional music jam on her property for more than fifty years. The jam, which is held every Thursday night year-round, features bluegrass, old time, and early country music. Her husband, a talented musician and instrument maker, started the gathering. After his death, she continued it. What is remarkable is that Mrs. Hyatt is not a musician, but continues the tradition because of her love of the music and the people who perform it.
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Bryson City, county seat of Swan County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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The Enterprise Waters Program, started by the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians as a way to bring fishermen to the waters around Cherokee, is forty years old. The program consists of thirty miles of well-stocked trout streams and three trout ponds. Tons of trout are raised each year in the tribal hatchery, including over 360,000 rainbow trout and hundreds of other species.
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In Sedalia in 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown founded a unique private school for African-Americans, the Palmer Memorial Institute. By doing so, she single-handedly changed African-American in North Carolina. Now a state historic site, the Institute is the first site to honor not only an African-American, but a woman of any race.
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10128
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Rutherfordton, the county seat of Rutherford County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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10142
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The STATE magazine's first issue was published on June 3, 1933, and its publisher, Carl Goerch, was from New York. Goerch was born in Tarrytown in 1891 and came to North Carolina in 1913. Hodge recounts how Goerch started the magazine, which would become one of the top regional publications in the nation, and discusses other individuals, including Billy Arthur and Bill Sharpe, who were closely connected with it.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 1, June 2008,
p126-128, 130-133, il, por
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10169
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The year 2008 marks the 145th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. Thirty-three North Carolina regiments containing over 12,000 soldiers fought there. Hodge describes three of the regiments--the 26th, 6th, and 55th.
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For seventy-six years, the culinary favorites of the Mecca Restaurant have satisfied the lunchtime crowd in downtown Raleigh. Located on East Martin Street two blocks from the state Capitol, the Mecca is in its third generation of ownership by the same family. Nick Dombalis founded the restaurant in 1930. Diners run the gamut from old friends gathering for lunch to North Carolina legislators. The jumbo hamburger is a favorite meal among the Mecca's regulars.
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In the 1950s and 60s, Hattie Leeper broke new ground in radio broadcasting when she became the state's first black female disc jockey at Charlotte's radio station WGIV. She spent twenty years at WGIV, before moving on to several other Charlotte stations. In 1973, she began a career of teaching communication at a number of colleges, including Johnson C. Smith University and Gaston College. She retired in 1998 and then ran her own communications school in Charlotte until 2004. She has received numerous awards, including induction into the Black Radio Hall of Fame in Washington D.C. in 1989 and induction into the North Carolina Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 10, Mar 2007,
p122-124, 126-127, il, por
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The Historical Cooking Guild of the Catawba Valley base of operations is the James K. Polk Memorial near Pineville, and they demonstrate cooking techniques and foods of the 18th- and 19th-centuries. One of the group's main goals is having the food taste like it would have over 200 years ago. To add authenticity to their demonstrations, Cooking Guild members dress in period costumes. They also train interpreters at other historic sites. When doing a demonstration, guild members use only those fruits and vegetables that would have been in season and available to colonial cooks.
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North Carolina was the leading gold-producing state before the discovery of gold in California in 1849. Another vein of ore attracted miners when silver was discovered in southern Davidson County in 1838. Roswell King of Connecticut purchased the mine from a man named Byerly in the same year. For years the Silver Hill Mine was the only silver mine in the country. Deposits of copper, zinc, lead, and carbonate ore were also found. Total production of all types of minerals at the mine during the 19th-century amounted to over $1 million. Hodge lists the users of the mine up to the last days of the 20th-century.
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Shelby, the county seat of Cleveland County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town incorporated in 1843 and was named for Colonel Isaac Shelby, a Revolutionary War soldier. The town's current population is 20,000, and in 1980, it became one of the first places to be designated a national and North Carolina Main Street Community. The town supports historic preservation. Among the structures in the historic district are a 1919 Herschell-Spillman carousel, the 1907 Cleveland County Courthouse, the 1924 Masonic Temple, and the 1916 U.S. Post Office. Other attractions include the Shelby City Park, The Cleveland County Fair, and the Rogers Theatre.
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The history of Kannapolis in Cabarrus County during the 20th-century is closely tied to the Cannon Manufacturing Company. James William Cannon started construction of his mill in 1906. At his death in 1921, 12 plants in the Kannapolis complex employed 15,000 workers, who were producing over 300,000 towels a day. The mills employed several generations of mill workers. In 1985, the plants were sold, and after passing through several owners, closed permanently in 2003. Nearly 4,800 workers in Cabarrus and Rowan counties were laid off. County leaders began a search for new projects. Since 2003, over 350 new jobs have come to Kannapolis, along with $25 million in new investments. The biggest project is the North Carolina Research Campus. This $1 billion biotechnology center, opening in 2010, will be one of the most advanced facilities of its type in the world.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006,
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Jerry Wolfe, an elder in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, has spent many years storytelling and promoting Cherokee culture. His stories are drawn from his own experiences, including World War II and the Job Corps program, and from Cherokee animal tales. He is well-known as an expert on Indian stickball and as a carver of special sticks used in the game. He received the North Carolina Arts Council Heritage Award in 2003.
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The Riverview Inn opened for business in 1946 on the banks of the Catawba River at the Gaston and Mecklenburg county line. It was started by Irwen W. Burns, Sr., and sixty years later, the restaurant is still family-owned. Seafood is the specialty of the house, and the restaurant is one of the oldest of its types in the Metrolina region.
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