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Ahoskie, located in Hertford County, is NORTH CAROLINA magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The name is Native American in origin, although it is not exactly known from which tribe it derives. The name first appeared in official records in 1722, and the town incorporated in 1893. Ahoskie is home to the Atlantic District Harness Racing Track, the only legally sanctioned harness racing track in the state. Significant revitalization is taking place in the downtown section. Mug Shotz, a café and coffee shop, has opened. The historic Garrett Hotel is partially renovated and houses new shops and service businesses. Built in 1906, the historic Gallery Theatre has been completely restored, and three or four shows are performed here each year.
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The Sanderling Resort & Spa in northern Dare County opened in 1985 and is a showcase for nationally acclaimed wildlife sculpture artists. The Sanderling contains the largest private collection of works by Grainger McKoy, a set of eighteen original Audubon prints, and a collection of Doughty Birds created in porcelain by English artist Dorothy Doughty.
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Dr. John Shelton Reed, who has made a career studying what it means to be a Southerner, helped found and direct UNC's Center for the Study of the American South during 1993 and 1994.
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Edenton is one of the oldest towns in the state. Kopp describes some of the gardens grown there, including the Cupola House, the Homestead, Mary's Garden, Rose Cottage, Beverly Hall, Paine House.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 11, Apr 2008,
p118-120, 122, 124-125, il
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Powell & Stokes, a farm supply business, was founded in Windsor in 1915 by brothers-in-law Luther Powell and Jonathan Stokes. After World War II, two Powell brothers took over the business, and now, a third generation of Powells runs the company. Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Jack Powell, Sr., created a recipe for frying what he called blister-fried peanuts. The business started as an off-season project, but the local demand for the peanuts became so great that Bill and Jack Powell, Jr., founded Bertie County Peanuts in 1994. The peanut business now accounts for 15 to 20 percent of the farm supply business.
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Hyde County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. It is one of the state's largest counties in land area, at 643 square miles, but with only 5,413 residents, it has the second smallest population of North Carolina's one hundred counties. Hyde is one of the oldest counties and was named for Edward Hyde, a colonial governor of North Carolina. There are no incorporated towns in the county, and the area remains dotted with small communities and tiny crossroads. The county has abundant wildlife and four National Wildlife Refuges are located entirely or partially within its borders. A number of significant historic buildings are located there, including the Octagon House in Engelhard and the Lake Mattamuskeet Lodge.
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Kopp discusses the creative writing program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The program has been in operation some seventy years, and well-known authors such as Michael Parker and Robert Morgan staff it.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 10, Mar 2008,
p96-98, 100-101, il, por
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Murfreesboro, located in Hertford County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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In the 19th-century North Carolina had dozens of sound and river lighthouses, besides its more famous coastal ones. Standing 12 feet above the water, these two-story, four-sided structures of a 1,000 square feet functioned like today's highway markers. The Roanoke River Lighthouse originally stood at the mouth of the river near Plymouth. This lighthouse was relocated to Edenton where it awaits restoration.
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Begun in 1967 and once housed in a small brick building, the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City has room to grow in its newly opened 50,000-square-foot facility. The four-story building draws upon the historic Outer Banks United States Life Saving Service buildings for its design. The museum portrays the customs and values of the people who settled and sustained the Albemarle region. Two historic buildings that were moved to the museum and restored on-site are the Jackson House (1755) and an 1840s smokehouse.
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For the past twenty-two years, Dottie Netherton of Edenton has been practicing scherenschnitte, or the art of cutting an image into paper, generally cutting away the background and leaving the shape of the paper to form the desired image. The art, which dates back 1,000 year to China, evolved in Europe, and came to America in the 1700s. The craft was popular in North Carolina's early colonial towns. Netherton originally cut from patterns, but as her skill progressed, she made her own designs, incorporating traditional elements, such as hearts, flowers, birds, and Biblical themes. Her work is sold in about twenty stores from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and beyond.
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Born in Harnett County, Jim Swinson grew up in Greenville where he attended East Carolina University. He now lives on Chocowinity Bay. Swinson creates environmentally themed songs that he performs with his wife and son at venues ranging from festivals to elementary schools. His stage name in Pamlico Joe. The songs are designed to help teach children and adults about the importance of caring for the earth and its resources. The family has performed across the state, up and down the East Coast, at the White House, and as far away as Texas.
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Williamston, county seat of Martin County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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Hope Plantation, Bertie County's finest historic home, was built in 1803 by David Stone, who was governor from 1808 to 1810. In 1965, a group called the Historic Hope Foundation set out to save the abandoned house. By 1972, Hope Plantation had been restored, entered on the Register of Historic Places, and opened to the public. Visitors to the stately plantation can experience rural life in the northeastern part of the state as it was lived in the late 18- and early 19th-centuries.
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