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North Carolina voters can choose among 13 candidates for Governor in the May primaries--six Democrats, six Republicans, and one Libertarian, including 90 year old Dr. Bruce Blackmon.
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Cader Harris of Elizabeth city has been awarded the Nancy Susan Reynolds Award. Harris, 84, received the award, which is given to \"unsung heroes\" annually, for his work in promoting good race relations in his community.
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Airlie Gardens is a virtual paradise of almost 70 acres owned and operated by New Hanover County, on the eastern edge of Wilmington on Bradley Creek. It boosts 100,000 azaleas and some 50,000 camellias, and now a new butterfly house.
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Collards have been maligned over the years. This staple of Down East and the rural South since the memory of man has been ridiculed and relegated to the status of lowly side dish. At the same time, people of the rural South have held collards in high esteem due to their hearty character, nutritional value, and taste. However, in the new Southern cuisine they are raised to an iconic level becoming the center of gourmet dishes.
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Leggett discusses the most unlikely places to find the best southern food: convenience stores.
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Leggett discusses the nuances in harvesting soft shell crabs in North Carolina.
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Leggett examines the many dimensions of Asheville abstract artist Kenn Kotara.
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WNC Magazine (NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 6 Issue 8, Oct 2012, p20-21, il, por Periodical Website
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Leggett discusses how the oyster reigns in eastern North Carolina, from recipes to restaurants.
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Paul Green, born on a farm in Harnett County on March 17, 1894, grew up to write such dramas as THE LOST COLONY and the 1927 Pulitzer Prize-winning IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. Green is profiled in this Leggett article.
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Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 4 Issue 1, Feb 2003, p43-45, por Periodical Website
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16705
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Leggett muses about North Carolina's small communities and the importance of volunteer fire departments to these communities.
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Campbell University has not had a football team in 56 years, but it is getting ready to change that. Its announcement in April of last year that it would field a team shocked the sports community. And the speed with which it has proceeded to develop a program and build the first phase of a stadium has been little short of astounding.
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Leggett discusses the history of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.
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16664
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Although Harry Golden's name is little known, he was a Charlotte writer whose book, ONLY IN AMERICA, made the best seller list in the 1950s and transformed Golden from a small-town newspaperman into a national personality.
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Although Jessie Rae Scott married into North Carolina's most prominent political family when she married Gov. Robert W. Scott, this Alamance County mill village girl worked her way through Woman's College, now UNC-Greensboro. She also came within a handful of votes of winning the Democratic nomination for State Labor Commissioner and was a key player in Jimmy Carter's North Carolina presidential campaign. She was a strong advocate for women's rights and fought in vain to get the Equal Rights Amendment adopted in North Carolina.
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The author reflected on the value that wood stoves, existing before the widespread adoption of electricity Down East during the 1940s, had for the region’s people. Leggett offered illustrations such as the better tastes of wood stove cooked foods, stories featuring family members like the author’s mother, and the important role these stoves played during holidays such as Christmas.
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