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Among the Cherokees and other tribes, the game of stickball has been for generations part ceremony, part organized combat, and a true test of athletic skill. Native Americans count it as one of their favorite and most revered recreational activities. The game brought tribes together for a competitive game of skill and strategy. Hodge discusses the pre-game ceremonies and how the Cherokees played the game.
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Cramerton, in Gaston County, is THE STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Originally called Maysworth when the town was founded in 1906, it became Cramerton in 1915 after Stuart Cramer, who owned the textile mills. Hodge recounts the history of this unusual mill town and life there today.
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Bill Payne, called North Carolina's number one outlaw, and his sidekick, Wash Turner (alias Jack Borden) escaped from the Halifax County's Caledonia prison camp on February 1, 1937. The two went on a crime spree that included car theft, kidnapping, and murder. The pair robbed a number of banks across the state, but it was the robbery the Bank of Candor, in Montgomery County, September 29, 1937, that many people remember. Brought to justice in Sanford by G-Men under the supervision of J. Edgar Hoover, the two were executed in 1938 for murdering a state trooper.
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Eight working lakes, providing services including power generation and flood control, span the foothills from Wilkes County to the South Carolina border. One of the most well-known is Lake Lure. The lakes also provide such recreational activities as boating and fishing.
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Discovery of gold near Eldorado in Montgomery County in the late 19th-century drew hundreds of speculators to the area. With 47,000 acres of Uwharrie Forest and 6,000 acres of water nearby, tourism is Eldorado's new gold rush.
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The delicate art of taxidermy is profiled as seen through the eyes of the artist, Bob Driver; the instructor, Ralph Garland; the biologist, Jim Williams; and the collector, Nancy Hall.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 16 Issue 33, Aug 1998,
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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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Because North Carolina's coastline has so many penetrable openings, a number of wartime forts were constructed to protect the interior. Hodge describes a number of these forts, including forts Branch, Raleigh, Anderson, Macon, and Fisher.
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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,
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Originating in the 1920s when some friends dug a pond and stocked it with frogs, Frog Pond, in Stanly County, maintains its small-town charm.
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Created with General Assembly funding in 1974 and having 5,500 acres of forest and fourteen miles of mountain streams, South Mountain State Park in Burke County offers many activities for the adventurous young or old.
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Once known as Baird's Forge and later as Lovelady, Granite Falls, in Caldwell County, was incorporated May 1, 1889. It is marking its one hundredth anniversary with a year full of special festivities and ceremonies.
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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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Each of the state's one hundred county courthouses is filled with stories of fascinating events that occurred there. In Jackson County, in 1914, for example, a local car dealer drove a Model T Ford up the building's 107 steps to prove that his product could climb the mountain roads.
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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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