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Doc Watson, from Deep Gap in Watauga County, is an internationally famous musician who performs country, blues, folk, and old Appalachian tunes. He is one of the world's best flat-pickers and has won four Grammy awards during his career.
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Wilmington's Oakwood Cemetery is one of the most historic cemeteries in the South. The first person buried there was on February 5, 1855--Annie, daughter of the cemetery's president. Since then over 20,000 have been buried there, some extraordinary, others ordinary people. The cemetery still has about a hundred funerals a year. Eric Kozen, who has twenty-seven years in the horticulture business and who has been a site manager at Arlington National Cemetery, is the cemetery superintendent. In his article Rowe relates how Oakdale became the first cemetery in the state to be part of a Rural Garden Cemetery Movement and what relatives of the deceased did on Sundays.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 11, Apr 2013, p132-136, 138, 140, 142-144, il Periodical Website
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The Uwharrie Mountains National Forests is one of the country's smallest. Yet among the trees, shadows, and darkness lurks another creature similar to Bigfoot. Over the past forty years there have been reported sightings and footprints four inches across the heel and eight across the toes. Michael Greene, who oversaw 250 investigators as Chief of Welfare and Food Stamp Fraud Investigation in New Jersey and who also is a \"court qualified expert witness\" on fraud, captured the best piece of evidence seen in 40 years. In 2009 he set up a thermal imager and digital video recorder in the woods and left. When he returned, the device had recorded a lumbering figure with long arms. Bigfoot? Mystery as yet unsolved.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 11, Apr 2014, p78-80, 82, il Periodical Website
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15281
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The Snowbird Mountain Lodge, located near Robbinsville in Graham County, was built in 1941 and sits on a ridge at nearly 3,000 feet. Naturalists, birdwatchers, honeymooners, and hikers all frequent the lodge which offers the comforts of home in beautiful surroundings. Alabamian Robert Rankin fell under its spell thirty years ago, and in 1995 he and his wife became the owners. Now divorced, Rankin operates the lodge with the help of his daughters in the summer and on school vacations.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 5, Oct 2011, p130-132, 134-136, 138, 140, il, por Periodical Website
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12931
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Our State magazine features Cashiers, located in Jackson County, in its Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 5, Oct 2010, p26-30, 32, 34, 36-37, il Periodical Website
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Located in a former hotel on South Elm Street, Table 16 offers diners a view of the resurrection of downtown Greensboro.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 6, November 2015, p202-210, por, map Periodical Website
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Rowe describes dinners held across the state to honor veterans of various service branches who are members of an exclusive club--they all are recipients of the Purple Heart.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 6, Nov 2013, p143-146, 148, 150, 152, il Periodical Website
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12933
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Rowe discusses the work and creations of Greensboro songwriter, playwright, and performer Laurelyn Dossett.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 5, Oct 2010, p48-50, 52, 54, 56-58, il, por Periodical Website
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Ralph Epperson is a rarity in the world of radio. He stills owns the station he founded, WPAQ, in 1948 in Mt. Airy, while nationwide a few companies own most of the stations. The station has a permanent format of bluegrass, gospel, and old-time mountain music, and its most popular show is the \"Merry-Go-Round,\" a weekly live music program. The show is the nation's third longest- running live music show. WPAQ is also one of the nation's top bluegrass stations.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 69 Issue 1, June 2001, p100-104, il Periodical Website
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Rowe describes the work of Peter Blum III, a third generation tinsmith, who can turn a piece of tin into a work of art or a tool. At age 76, he is believed to be the state's only tinsmith, and his talent earned him the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 9, Feb 2011, p120-122, 124, 126-128, 130, il, por Periodical Website
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Located in Alamance County, Saxapahaw is featured in Our State magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 77 Issue 12, May 2010, p32-34, 36,38-41, il Periodical Website
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TS Designs in Burlington is a corporate company that prioritizes social benefits over maximizing profits. Following the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, TS Designs lost many customers to overseas producers, which forced the company to cut jobs. Now, the company is coming back strong and focuses on using American-made material for its products.
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The highway as North Carolina’s colonists knew it was the primary pathway for many. Covering 700 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to August, Georgia, this road largely traveled by foot played a pivotal role in creating some of the state’s metros and major cities. Commemorating the importance of the Great Wagon Road are items in the Rowan Museum such as a wagon made by John Israel Nissen, descendant of original travelers of the road. A personal sign of the road’s importance is on display at the Knox Farm: the rim of one of The Great Wagon’s wheels. John Knox’s eighth generation descendants can’t attest the rim was on their ancestor’s wagon; they only know it’s always been part of the farm’s landscape.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 2, July 2011, p32-34, 36-37 Periodical Website
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Snappy Lunch, opened in 1923, sites in Mount Airy, North Carolina and boasts the state's most famous pork chop sandwich. And with the help of the Andy Griffith Show, Snappy Lunch became a tourist destination.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 9, February 2015, p96-98, 100, 102, il Periodical Website
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Rowe discusses the furniture creations of Don Wright, who started his company, the Wright Table Company, in 1971, near Morganton.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 5, Oct 2008, p152-154, 156158, il, por Periodical Website
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