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The Miss North Carolina Pageant began in 1937 and this year celebrates its 75th anniversary. The pageant began as a swimsuit contest but has since evolved into a scholarship contest. Maria Beale Fletcher is the only North Carolinian to win the Miss America Pageant. Hughes recounts highlights from the seventy-five years.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 6, Nov 2012,
p67-70, 72, 74, 76-79, il, por
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38276
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What makes a farm work, according to the author, is the relationship between farmers and tractors. Another relationship discussed by Hughes reflects the tractor’s enduring importance in North Carolina. An illustration for this relationship is the anecdote about a farmer, his tractor, and child he trusted to operate it. Illustrations of the tractor’s importance in North Carolina is many counties having multiple tractor dealerships, her comparison between tractor and car dealerships, and assertion tractor dealerships are often community centers and places of business.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 5, Oct 2012,
p174-176, 178-184, 186-188, 190, 192
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38278
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Cleveland Regional Medical Center’s path isn’t laid out like its ancient Greek counterpart. Cleveland Regional’s garden, labyrinth style, is not designed to make visitors get lost. However, it often yields being lost in thought, as well as the intended perception of being healed.
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Hughes describes the Second Street Lunch in Roanoke Rapids where a customer can order a hamburger anyway they want it. Bill Haislip started the business in 1949, and his son Danny has been running it since 1965.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 1, June 2011,
p112-114, 116-117, il, por
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15012
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Jeff Miller and his wife Missy operate Luella's Bar-B-Que located in Asheville. The restaurant opened in 2007, and Luella's top seller continues to be the pork barbecue sandwich with slaw and a side of macaroni and cheese.
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15593
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Hughes explains why the persimmon, which grows wild, is loaded with natural sugar, is delightful to the taste, and can't be eaten till it falls to the ground, is our most peculiar fruit.
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38290
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Concord’s First Presbyterian Church has a garden contained items not normally associated with such as place: tombstones. Because of this, Memorial Garden had more to offer to visitors than fragrant flora. It offered insights into the town’s history and stories of the town’s honored dead, with tombstone dates spanning between 1804-1999.
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12935
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Sutton's Drug Store has occupied an old brick building in Chapel Hill since 1923. Located near the University of North Carolina campus, the Franklin Street store is designated \"A Town Heritage Site.\" It is an old-style drugstore complete with grill.
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Conrad Hill Feed & Seed has been operating in Lexington, North Carolina since Gene Smith and Billy Bowers opened the mill in 1962. Conrad Hill is one of the few remaining mills in the area grinding feed for cattle, hogs and chicken.
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