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21784
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Charleen Swansea graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1956, taught there for one year, then at Queens College in Charlotte until 1964. She was fired from the college for being \"too courageously creative.\" She and her students then formed a writing group and created the Red Clay Reader, a magazine for writers with deep roots in the Southern soil. It had a run of seven years. She then founded her own publishing company, Red Clay Publishers, which has printed 32 books by Southern writers.
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The place with distinction statewide and national began in 1891 as Women’s College. Known now as the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, its alumni have earned distinction as Pulitzer Prize winning historians, NASA astronomers, and acclaimed artists. Distinction earned from local sources came from alumni like Alice Irby. Information about Irby noted her marks of distinction such as involvement with the 1960 Woolworth’s sit-ins.
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Irby, Alice J.; University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Women's College in Greensboro; Guilford County--History; Public education--North Carolina; McIver, Charles Duncan, 1860-1906; Frost, Robert, 1874-1963; O'Connor, Mary Flannery (1925-1964); Woolworth's 1960 sit in; African Americans--Education, Higher
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Jockey's Ridge, located at Nag's Head on the Outer Banks, is the East Coast's tallest sand dune. Now a state park, it is the only one that moves. Over the years, its shifting and moving sands have swallowed a hotel, miniature golf course, a cemetery and a fishing village. It is also North Carolina's most visited state park.
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Pittsboro, county seat of Chatham County, is featured in Our State Magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section. One thing that makes Pittsboro distinctive is that it has its own currency. Places to visit there include the Carolina Tiger Rescue, Starlight Mead, the Oak Leaf Restaurant, Circle City Books & Music, and The Woodwright's School and Tool Shop. Owner Roy Underhill is known by everyone and he is featured on his PBS show.
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Victoria Livengood grew up on a farm near Thomasville. She began her education at UNC-Chapel Hill in pre-law, but after a course in choir, her professor convinced her to switch her major to voice. She later won the Metropolitan Opera auditions and began her career as an international opera star.
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Where the Wright Brothers once flew, hang gliders now soar from Jockey's Ridge on the Outer Banks. In all began in 1974 when John Harris opened Kitty Hawk Kites in the garage of the old Nags Head Casino. Now, forty-one years later, there are fifteen retail stores along the state's coastline with plans to open more across the Southeast. Besides the flying school at Nags Head, he has another in New Hampshire, and he has taught over half a million people how to fly.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 12, May 2013,
p160-164, 166, 168-171, il, por
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20802
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Transylvania County is featured in Our State's magazine pictorial essay.
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20818
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Perry recounts how two deep sea divers and underwater welders, Tim Ferris and Bob Weihe, started The Blue Ridge Distilling Company, located twenty miles south of Morganton, and are revolutionizing the way whisky is made.
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20858
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Shelby, located in Cleveland County, is featured in Our State magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section. Among the things not to miss while visiting are the Owl's Eye Vineyard and Winery, Buffalo Creek Gallery, the Carousel and Rotary Train at City Park, NiFen Dining, and the Lily Bean Coffee Shop.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 4, Sept 2013,
p40-42, 44, 46, 48, 50, il
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During the Great Depression, the federal government purchased unused farmland in the Piedmont region. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy named this land the Uwharrie National Forest. It occupies parts of Montgomery, Randolph, and Davidson counties, and it is one of the nation's smallest national forest. It contains a mountain range older than the Rockies or Appalachians and lakes. Perry describes the forest and the people who live in and around it.
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Perry describes the beginnings and growth of the John C. Campbell Folk School which was founded in 1925 by Olive Dame Campbell and named in honor of her husband. Located in Brasstown in Cherokee County, the school offers classes including blacksmithing, pottery, weaving, dyeing, knitting, and dulcimer instruction to over 5,500 students yearly.
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When George Vanderbilt chose Frederick Law Olmsted, the nation's most famous landscape architect, to design his grounds at Biltmore Estate, the two men differed over the direction of the project. Olmsted wanted an arboretum; Vanderbilt wanted a park. They eventually settled on restoring the forests and setting aside some lands for gardens. Olmsted died in 1903. One hundred years later his dream of an arboretum was realized with the construction in Asheville of the North Carolina Arboretum.
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17030
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Chip Holton has created sketches, landscapes, watercolors, portraits, murals and sculptures and had built houses and designed buildings. Twenty years ago he met Dennis Quaintance, an hotelier from Greensboro who owned the Proximity Hotel and the O. Henry Hotel. When he was building the Proximity in 2006, Quaintance hired him to do all the artwork for the rooms--500 works of art--to be finished by summer's end. When he finished, Holton was hired to paint for the O. Henry and given the title Artist-in-Residence. To date, he has completed over 800 works of art for Quaintance.
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Gertrude Carraway led the campaign to reconstruct Tryon Palace. Carraway, who was a preservationist, historian, journalist, and a force to be reckoned with, gave fifty years of continuous service to the state through the N.C. Historical Commission. She died in New Bern, May 7, 1993, at age 96.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Sept 2012,
p48-50, 52, 54, 56, il, por
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In the 1960s, Robert Hart, a Hickory physician and preservationist, purchased 200 acres outside the city limits. There he collected ninety-two buildings from Catawba and surrounding counties and created a place that imitates village life. With the help of his wife, he decorates the buildings with furniture from the time period in which they were built.
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