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38284
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The big band leader who found fame in Hollywood and New York faded into obscurity once he returned to his home state. Kay Kyser, at the height of his fame during the Great Depression and World War II, scored 35 top ten hits, despite not being able to read sheet music or play an instrument. He earned fame by the zaniness and sense of humor displayed during his band performances.
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Students attending the Governor Morehead School for the Blind experience a garden in Raleigh in a way many of its visitors do not. Inspired by Helen Keller, Martha Franck created a garden she intended to be experienced most fully through its smell, sound, and touch stimuli. Started in 1960 in Butner, it is in operation through a partnership between this school and the Garden Club of North Carolina.
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The American Meltdown foodtruck has earned its reputation as one of Durham's top foodtrucks, and the chef, Paul Inserra, has brought back several awards for his locally sourced sandwich creations.
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Hugh Morton, the “state’s unofficial photographer” according to many, began photographing North Carolina landscapes and everyday life when he was a child. Throughout his lifetime, Morton took over 25,000 images, had a handful of them grace the front of “The State” magazine (precursor to "Our State"), and used his photography to bring awareness to causes such as protecting Grandfather Mountain and preserving the USS North Carolina.
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Ayden, located in Pitt County, is featured in Our State Magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section. Among the things to see are the Ayden Collard Festival, held each fall; two barbecue establishments--the Skylight Inn and Bum's; the Ayden Flower Shop; Cindirene Southern Emporium, which serves good food; and the Gallery on Third.
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Elizabeth \"Libba\" Cotton grew up in Carrboro around the turn of the 20th Century. She bought a guitar with money she made cooking, cleaning, carrying water, and chopping wood. She learned to play the guitar, but held it upside-down, playing it lefty. She wrote songs about the life she experienced. Those songs would later be performed by the likes of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead. It was a chance encounter in the late 1940s with folk specialist Ruth Crawford Seeger that brought her talent before the world. Her appearances included Carnegie Hall and the Newport Folk Festival. Cotton died in 1987 at age 92.
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The Cherohala Skyway runs from North Carolina's border with Tennessee to Big Santeelah Creek, a distance of eighteen miles. Lying in the remote southwestern part of the state, it provides drivers spectacular views of the Great Smoky Mountains. The total length of the road is forty-three miles, and it took forty years and $100 million to construct in what was long thought impassable country.
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In 1995 the NC General Assembly passed a bill designating the sweet potato as the state vegetable. It was done not because the legislators admired its versatility or its tastiness, but because of the persistence of a Wilson fourth grade teacher and her students. Shaffer recounts how Celia Batchelor and her fourth grade class at Wilson's Elvie Street School began a campaign in 1993 to make the sweet potato the state vegetable. It was not without opposition from newspapers and the Legislature, but persistence won out.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 6, Nov 2012,
p140-142, 144, 146, 148, il, por
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Shaffer describes Whitley Furniture Galleries, operated by Charles Estes and his sister Nelle Carroll. They are the fourth-generation to run the business, which is still located in the red brick building where it began in Zebulon over one hundred years ago.
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Shaffer describes seasonal beers produced by three mountain brewing companies--Catawba Valley Brewing Company (Morganton), Highland Brewing Company (Asheville) and Pisgah Brewing Company (Black Mountain).
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Charles Dickens' story, A Christmas Carol, is one of the most beloved Christmas traditions for the past 167 years. Shaffer describes the unique approach Raleigh's Theatre in the Park takes each season to bring Dickens' character to life.
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Jennifer Watlington, a retired postal employee, couldn't find any greeting cards for veterans in her hometown of Reidsville. So she did the next best thing--she made her own, and a graphic artist friend illustrates them. She's currently working on a plan to sell them online.
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Frances Apple had a career as a radiologic technologist. Now retired, she uses X-rays to peer inside flowers, revealing a hidden world in shades of black and gray. Shaffer discusses her creations, and those of her mentor, Jane Cox.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 4, Sept 2010,
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Considered a fixture at Raleigh’s Capitol Square is a local whose identity became synonymous with the birds who followed him, ones considered more of a novelty than irritant. Jesse Broyles’ peanut vending, as much as his companionship with these pigeons, merited his obituary in News and Observer and enduring reputation in this part of the state capital.
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The Peanut Man--Raleigh; Broyles, Jesse; Raleigh--Capital and capitol; Pigeons; Peanut vendors; Legends--Wake County; Legends--Raleigh; Legends--downtown Raleigh; Veterans, Disabled; World War (1939-1945); California military bases--Camp Pendleton; California Marine bases; News and Observer (Raleigh); News and Observer columnists--A.C. Snow ; Snow, A.C.
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John Montgomery came to Raleigh in 1983 and opened a shop on Hillsborough Street where he makes hand-crafted violins and repairs other stringed instruments. A graduate of the Violin Making School of America, located in Salt Lake City, he tries to make a quartet a year--two violins, a viola, and cello.
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