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Linville Caverns lie below Humpack Mountain between Marion and Linville. It opened formally in 1939 by Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Collins who leased the property. The couple installed electric lights and hired guides to make the caverns accessible to the public. Historically the caverns were used for more than tourism. During the Civil War, Confederate soldiers deserting the army hid out in the cavern. Slaves would meet in the caverns to sing and dance in the safety of the caves.
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11606
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Seay discusses the Carolina Aluminum Company which is located at Badin in Stanly County.
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15242
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Miss Ella Butler of the Moravian settlement of Old Salem is making candles, a definite harbinger of Christmas. For about two months before Christmas, Miss Ella busies herself with her annual task of making by hand, in exactly the same holds and in the same manner as they were made in 1766, the more than 10,000 candles used for the Moravian Christmas Love Feast observed by all the churches of the Southern Moravian Province comprising North Carolina and Virginia.
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15927
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Dr. Joseph Halstead, better known as \"Dom Placid,\" is North Carolina's poet laureate, although he was born in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the state in 1921 as teacher of English and Greek at Belmont Abbey College. His writing is not limited only to poetry; he has written plays, book reviews for the Charlotte Observer, and has a radio show called \"Poetry Corner.\" The duties of a poet laureate are to extol the virtues of his state in poetic form and encourage the writing of poetry.
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Ivey describes the aims and purposes of Penderlea, a planned farm community being built in Pender County to improve poor living conditions of people brought on by the Depression. The first one hundred families will be in residence within the next three months.
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15978
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Many people recognize the name of Sidney Lanier, the famous Georgia poet who was born in 1842. Fewer people know, however, that he died in 1881, at Lynn, near Tryon in Polk County, where he had moved seeking relief from the tuberculosis he had contracted while being held in a Federal prison during the Civil War.
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The story of Frances Silver is retold along with a reprint of a ballad composed by Silver while in jail for murder. Silver lived near Burke with her husband and child, and while her husband lay sleeping on the floor, she used an ax to murder him, burning his body to hide the evidence. Silver was convicted and hanged on July 12, 1833.
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11528
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Seay describes how Biltmore Industries grew from a small business to the largest hand weaving industry in the world.
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11635
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Seay discusses the influence Frederick Koch had on the dramatic arts in North Carolina in the early part of the 20th-century. While a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Koch founded the Carolina Playmakers, one of the most influential repertoire groups of its time.
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15509
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Mrs. Paul Webb, Sr. cared for the historic homestead in Shelby. The Old Southern Homestead was transformed into a museum of southern antiquities. Mrs. Webb Sr. collected art, artifacts, and folk crafts representative of the state's history. Along with these pieces, Mrs. Webb Sr. also renovated the interior of the homestead to reflect the historic character of a typical plantation 'big house.'
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Born in Connecticut in 1777, Lorenzo Dow, moved to North Carolina to become a preacher. Scheduling appointments statewide as well as performing at various public locations, Dow was able to amass crowds of up to 1,500 people and issue sermons lasting for some four and one half hours. Dow was known for his ability to recover lost or stolen items, his powerful influence in the religious life of North Carolina, as well as his role as an eccentric pioneer Methodist evangelist.
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15526
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The shortia, so far as known, grows nowhere else in the world except in certain area of the state's mountains. The flower was found by Andre Michaux, the famous French botanist, on a trip through the state's mountains in 1787. It remained unnamed until Dr. Asa Gray, the American botanist, discovered it on a trip to Paris in 1838 and named it in honor of Professor Short of Kentucky. It was rediscovered in the mountains in 1877.
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15485
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Indigenous tobacco plants satisfied early settlers' appetites but in 1852 the first \"bright leaf\" tobacco was grown and started the state's tobacco boom. The popularity of J. L. Green's tobacco with Civil War soldiers created the world-famous \"Bull Durham\" brand. The Duke's became prolific tobacco farmers and the \"Duke's Mixture\" helped J. B. Duke form the American Tobacco Company. The tobacco industry was not limited to the 'Triangle' and places like Winston-Salem became cigarette manufacturing locales.
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There were many interesting events in connection with the early development of railroads in North Carolina; also quite a lot of opposition on the part of certain people.
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High atop a hill just off the main thoroughfare of the little mountain city of Tryon, is located one of the most original and interesting enterprises - the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood Carvers. It was after the World War and George W. Vanderbilt's death at Biltmore that the novel industry had its beginning. Miss Eleanor Vance and Miss Charlotte Yale, the originators and owners of the shops, were also originators of the handicraft work of the Biltmore Industries, where they worked for fourteen years. At this shop they not only make toys but teach handicraft, weaving, wood carving, and toy making.
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