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for "Tomlin, Jimmy"
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The perceived peaceful presence loomed large in St. Jude of Hope, Little Chapel of God’s Love, and an unnamed chapel that seats four. The authored trusted in finding the divine in Trust, Gibsonville, and near Trinity. Chapels the author noted were sometimes sought, other times found, were named after the patron saint of lost causes; erected from wood part of a Lutheran church built in 1745; and once a smokehouse.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 10, March 2015,
p166-168, 170-172, 174
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21788
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Tomlin looks back to the 1970s when, for a short period of time, college students cast aside their inhibitions (and clothes) and became streakers across their college landscapes. It appears that Western Carolina University has the honor of having the first streakers.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 11, Apr 2014,
p42-44, 46, 48, 50, 52, il
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22088
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Steven Miller, a carpenter and crafter of musical instruments, makes fiddles--unusual, century old-fiddles. Cigar-box fiddles have been around for a long time. Miller takes them and transforms them into fiddles he calls Carolina Fiddles. It takes forty hours to make one by hand, and he charges $750 per fiddle. He hardly makes any money off the fiddles, but as he says, \"I just do it because I really like them. I enjoy making musical instruments.\"
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22089
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Old-time music played on fiddles, banjos, mandolins, and dulcimers has for decades attracted North Carolinians to festivals. Tomlin describes perhaps the oldest festival that was held in the Iredell County township of Union Grove in 1924. It now hosts two a year. A younger festival is the Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention held in Mt. Airy since 1972.
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22090
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Tomlin seeks an answer to the question--\"Is there a difference between the fiddle and the violin?\" He consults Jamie Laval, of Tryon, the 2002 US National Scottish Fiddle Champion for an answer.
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Tomlin recounts the history of the June German, which was held in a large tobacco warehouse in Rocky Mount. It was a yearly dance that began in 1880 to celebrate the harvest of the tobacco crop and attracted thousands of dancers along with many spectators. By the 1950s they had disappeared from the Eastern North Carolina social scene. Although African Americans and whites held separate dances, it was a highlight of both their social seasons and it brought in big bands like the Dorseys and Count Basie, the national press, and prominent people nationwide, like movie stars.
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22624
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From Barbie dolls and G.I. Joes to the east coast's largest Shirley Temple collection, The Spencer Doll and Toy Museum is presented in memory of Amy Morris, a native of Rowan County, North Carolina, whose nearly 300 doll collection inspired the museum.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 7, December 2014,
p156-158, 160, 162-164, por
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19315
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In the late mid to late 19th century, many North Carolinians vacationed at one of several hotels built near mineral springs. One of the grandest of them all was the White Sulphur Springs Hotel, built in Surry County by Rufus Roberts. Governors, world-famous actresses, and people from the eastern part of the state came there. They didn't come for the fancy accommodations or great food, rest or relaxation. They came to drink the mineral spring waters which were reputed to have curative powers. Tomlin recounts the hotel's history and what eventually happened to it.
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After building a dollhouse with her ten grandchildren, Meredith Michener of High Point decided in 1990 decided to continue the craft. She went to Seattle to study with a nationally renowned miniaturist and learned to use tools she had no experience with. Over the years she has constructed thirty intricately designed rooms. Each one required a month to ten months to complete. In 2001 she donated her rooms, now known as \"Meredith's Miniatures,\" to the High Point Museum where they are a permanent exhibit. It is considered one of the largest collections of its types made by one person in the country.
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The Mayberry Ice Cream Restaurants at one time numbered forty-two half a century ago; now only seven remain in the state. The bean-and-bacon soup is legendary; banana splits are delicious. Tomlin visits the one in High Point which is owned by Rita and Mike Rankin. Mike went to work with the restaurant as a dish washer at age fifteen and worked his way up to owner. When the chain still had a large number of restaurants, he was the troubleshooter for it. He and Rita have a loyal clientele that comes to their restaurant to enjoy their homemade food.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 1, June 2013,
p206-208, 210-212, 214, il, por
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20140
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With its unique cherry flavor and bright red color, the history of Cheerwine is inextricably linked with its home state of North Carolina.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 3, Aug 2013,
p144-146, 148, 150-151, f
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Letters From Home is a tribute show to the Andrews Sisters, a 1930s and 40s singing group, popular among soldiers during World War II. Erinn Diaz, Serah Haley, and Chelsea de la Cuadra perform the songs, originally done by LaVerne, Maxene and Patty Andrews, in venues across the country--theatres, air shows, parades, VA hospital, and VFW conventions.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 6, Nov 2013,
p154-156, 158, 160, 162, por
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Salem Moravian Graveyard, known as God's Acre, is a unique burial place. John Birkhead was the first Moravian settler buried there in 1771, and the burial tradition continues to this date. There are no great headstones, prominent crosses, or majestic statues, for the Moravians believed that all are equal in death. Over 7,000 are buried there under simple, flat markers of white marble--20x24 inches, standing four inches high, pointing east. Nor are blood relatives buried together because the people are considered part of one family--the church family and are therefore buried chronologically.
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Approximately one mile long and 1,800 feet wide, the quarry at Mount Airy, the world's largest open-faced granite quarry, has provided stone for notable monuments and structures nationwide. The quarry has been worked for 120 years, and there is enough granite there for another 500 years.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Sept 2012,
p166-168, 170, 172, 174, 176, il
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17763
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The citizens of Shelby have been on a mission to revitalize their town. The State Theatre is one legendary spot site they are honoring with a new name.
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