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for "Hughes, Leah"
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19412
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Morehead City, the hub of Carteret County, is featured in Our State Magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section. Among the things to see there are Floyd's 1921 Restaurant; Dee Gee's Gifts and Books, the oldest independently owned bookstore in the state; and the Ruddy Duck Tavern.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 11, Apr 2013,
p34-36, 38, 40, 42-46, il
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When dining out, most people understand that the food is produced on farms and that the restaurants then prepare it for your dining experience. The step they don't think about is the middle one--the people who deal with the food before it reaches the restaurant from the farm. Hughes recounts the history of Southern Foods, a Greensboro-based family-owned business that for almost sixty years has been delivering the best meats, cheeses, and chocolates to restaurants.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 12, May 2013,
p218-220, 222, 224, 226, 228, 230, il, por
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19650
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The Maypop, or Passiflora incarnate, is a native vine that has intricate flowers and pods that pop. It is known by another name, passionflower, and grows in every county in the state.
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20106
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Shearline Boatworks, located in Morehead City, builds custom-made boats. Depending on the size, the boat's completion can take from one to three years. The company began in 2000 and is currently at work on boat number 31.
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21381
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Denton, a small town (population about 1,700) located in Davidson County, is Our State Magazine's featured Tar Heel Town of the Month.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 7, Dec 2013,
p42-44, 46-48, 50, 52, il
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38150
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The cold gold began to appear as means to keep produce chilled in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. Families purchasing ice from wagons and local icehouses made it a common way of life by the late nineteenth century. Wm. E. Worth and Company, the first artificial ice factory, paving the way of predominance for artificial ice production. Today, Harris and Rose Ice Company provides ice for much of Southeastern North Carolina, assuring the continuation of a long tradition started in Wilmington.
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38282
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Since its onset, the state’s pageant has transformed from focusing on beauty, as a swimsuit contest, to balancing attention to beauty and brains, by including a scholarship grant. The group gathered for the event’s diamond anniversary represented career paths traveled after their journey down the Miss North Carolina runway. They included movie stars, songwriters, lawyers, and physicians. The alumna earning the distinction all crowned Miss North Carolina hope for was Maria Beale Fletcher, voted Miss North Carolina and Miss America.
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16812
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The Atlantis Lodge, an institution among North Carolina's seaside motels, is a three-story motel located at Mile Post 5 in Pine Knoll Shores. A. C. and Dot Hall currently operate it, and it was started in 1963 by Dot's mother, Ruth Bray. Their daughter, Donna Hall Nally is the general manager and the third-generation in her family to look after the property. The Atlantis is unique because instead of ripping up the natural environment during construction the structure was built to blend into the maritime forest.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 1, June 2012,
p130-132, 134-136, 138, 140, il, por
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17056
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The historic Carolina Inn, located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is marking its eighty-eighth year. Hughes recounts some of its history and the amenities it offers.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 3, Aug 2012,
p110-114, 116, 118-119, il
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17058
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Mitchell Minges began Hospitality Mints as a family business in Boone in 1976. These are the little mints customers find as they pay their bills on leaving the restaurant. The company uses 50,000 pounds of sugar to produce seven million mints each day, which adds up to over a billion each year.
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17761
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Greene County is only 170,200 acres, and fifty-four percent of that land, or 92,000 acres, is farmland. Farmers in Greene County grown a variety of commodities from sweet potatoes, grains, and peaches to prawns.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 5, Oct 2012,
p154-158, 160-162, 164-166, 168, 170, 172, f
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17762
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A native reed to North Carolina, river cane is both utilitarian and decorative.
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17773
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The pawpaw, a native fruit to North Carolina, is hard to explain. It grows on tree like an apple, grows in bunches like grapes, and ripens like peaches in late summer--but it has a flavor and other characteristics all its own.
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17775
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The Golden Alexander is a member of an elite club. The native plant is the current North Carolina Wildflower of the Year.
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17787
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Most people might not think much about their table salt, but salt from different locations has different textures and flavors. Take, for example, the unique sea salt from the Outer Banks of North Carolina--a special occasion ingredient.
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