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Hendersonville's Tom Fazio is one of the world's top golf course designers.
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Primitive and almost uninhabited forty years ago, Ocean Isle Beach, a barrier island off Brunswick County, is now one of the rising stars of North Carolina tourism.
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The citizens of New Bern have successfully balanced the city's past with its present to create a progressive city with a strong sense of its heritage.
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Hookerton resident Franc White has hosted the \"Southern Sportsman\" outdoor program for the past twenty-three years.
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Boone, nestled in the high country of Watauga County, is a picturesque town of 13,000 residents, and the home of Appalachian State University.
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James K. Polk, born in Pineville, is being reconsidered by historians and is moving up the ladder of presidential rankings.
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The Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr. Library in Morganton, a replica of Ervin's home library, is a 7,500-item collection that includes books, family and professional memorabilia, awards, and political cartoons.
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Dissatisfied with inordinate taxation and a lack of representation on the town council, a group of Sunset Beach property owners is attempting to secede from the town of Sunset Beach and to establish the island of Sunset Beach as an independent town.
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Founded in 1726 as a business venture by Maurice Moore, Brunswick Town prospered as a sea port but declined after the American Revolution and was in ruins by 1830. Now a state historic site on the Cape Fear River, it attracts over 50,000 visitors a year.
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Carol Timblin, a Charlotte writer, is the author of BEST PLACES TO STAY IN THE SOUTH, a review of over 300 inns, 85 percent of which have been visited by the author.
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The barrier island of Topsail is divided between Onslow and Pender Counties with Surf City, the commercial hub, located in the island's center. Two factors, a lack of commercialization and environmental preservation, attract vacationers to the island.
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Smithville, founded in 1792, changed its name to Southport in 1889 because it was the state's southernmost port. Originally a fishing village, the Brunswick County community now attracts many tourists and retirees.
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Born in New Garden in Guilford County, Joseph \"Uncle Joe\" Cannon spent 46 years in the United States House of Representatives. Cannon served eight years as Speaker of the House, and is noted for his iron-fisted reign.
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After serving as an adviser to four American Presidents - Nixon, Reagan, Ford, and Clinton - David Gergen has returned home to Durham to become a visiting professor at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
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The state has the nation's second-largest ferry system, next to Washington state. For tourists who want to sail and sightsee, a three-day trip along the Outer Banks incorporates ferry riding and car travel, with stops at island towns, like Ocracoke.
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