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for "Tomlin, Jimmy"
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7264
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James Emory Gibson of High Point is one of North Carolina's greatest success stories. In 1931, in debt $75,000 during the Depression and with a family of six to provide for, Gibson parleyed a 10-cent paddleball game into a company that would sell in 1972 for $1.6 million. He repaid the debt. The game was Fli-Back, a game that challenged players to continuously bounce a sponge-ball that was attached to a small wooden paddle with an elastic string.
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John McElwrath built the brick house on his Iredell County cotton plantation in 1753, and it is one of the oldest residences still standing in North Carolina. McElwrath died in 1785. Tomlin traces the ownership down to the present owners, Susan and Meredith Hall, who live on the plantation as they restore it. The Halls purchased the property thirty-six years ago and renamed it Darshana Hall Plantation. In 1973, the property was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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The story of the mysterious hoof prints near Bath in Beaufort County has been told for over 200 years. Sometime between 1802 and 1812, depending on the version of the story, Jesse Elliott, a profane, hard-drinking man, challenged someone to a horserace. The race took place on Sunday, and it was sinful to race on the Sabbath day. During the race, Elliott's horse, Fury, dug his hoofs into the soil and reared, throwing Elliott against a tree and killing him. The hoof prints remain to this day. Anything placed in them - sticks, stones, dirt, even sticks pushed deep into the ground - will be gone the next day.
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On January 30, 1932, in the town of Bladenboro, at the Elm Street home of Council H. Williamson and his wife Lydia, a series of fires occurred in five different rooms of the house. A window shade and a curtain would burn. After this fire was put out, another window shade would catch fire. The most serious happening was when a young girl's dress suddenly ignited. She escaped injury. Later a pair of trousers hanging in a closet took fire. There were twenty fires in all, the last occurring on February 1, 1932. Tomlin discusses the theories that surrounded the fires, from the scientific to the paranormal.
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Americans are great collectors of all kinds of items. Dr. Manny Rothstein, a Fayetteville dermatologist, has one of the more unique collections. Given a back scratcher as a promotional item in 1975, he began to acquire more on his own. Today he has nearly 600 back scratchers in his still-growing collection, and according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the collection is the largest in the world.
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Volunteer efforts are restoring the long-forgotten Jackson County Cemetery with gravesites dating back to 1870. The work began 20 years ago when the county proposed clearing the land for a recreation center. The volunteers invoked an early 20th-century law passed in the General Assembly that makes it illegal to desecrate a cemetery, no matter how old. Originally a pauper cemetery, the site is believed to be the final resting place of Native Americans, slaves, and one Confederate soldier. The volunteers have organized the Jackson County Cemetery Society to continue restoration work at other historic cemeteries in Sylva and Whittier.
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The Dovetail Garden, located in Charlotte's historic Fourth Ward neighborhood, is an eclectic garden, with roses, collard greens, tulips, and tomatoes growing side by side. The Fourth Ward is divided between residents of Edwin Towers, a Charlotte Housing Authority high-rise where low-income, mostly elderly and mostly African Americans live, and the affluent, mostly white residents who make up the rest of the ward's population. These two groups rarely interacted. Tomlin discusses how this unique 100-foot-wide circular garden brought a closer connection with people in the neighborhood.
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Furniture manufacturing began in High Point in the late 1880s. The High Point Furniture Manufacturing Company was the first to ship furniture beyond the city, though soon other furniture manufacturers, attracted by a good supply of lumber and a strong regional market for inexpensive furniture, opened for business. High Point hosted the first Southern Regional Market in 1909. From this date, the shows evolved into the International Home Furnishings Market, a semi-annual furniture event.
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Many North Carolinians are collectors of standard objects, like coins, stamps, or baseball cards. Tomlin introduces four individuals whose collections are a bit different. They are Marie Lawrence of Morehead City, who collects deviled-egg plates; Mace Quidley of Camden, a collector of vintage gas pumps; Bill Michal of High Point, who collects antique banjos; and Jerome Gundrum of Snead's Ferry, a collector of root beer memorabilia.
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Renowned wildlife photographer Bill Lea resides in Franklin and has been photographing wildlife since 1978. He estimates that he has had almost 6,000 of his photographs published. His photographs have been showcased in two coffee table books: GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS WILDLIFE PORTFOLIO and GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS WONDER. A third book will be published in the spring of 2007.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 5, Oct 2006,
p150-152, 154, 156, 158, il
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Tomlin takes the reader on a photographic tour of some of North Carolina's historic churches, ranging from a grandiose cathedral to a humble meetinghouse. A brief sketch of each church's history accompanies each photograph. Churches include St. Philips Anglican Church (Brunswick); Machpelah Presbyterian Church (Lincoln County); and West Grove Friends Meeting House (Alamance County).
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In 1949, two broadcasting stations, WBT in Charlotte and WFMY in Greensboro, competed to be the first station in the state to broadcast in a new medium--television. Both stations filed applications with the Federal Communications Commission in 1947. harlotte was the winner by a close margin. WBT began televising on July 15, 1949, and Greensboro's WFMY followed on August 18. Tomlin recounts those early days of the new broadcast medium.
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North Carolina is home to many talented musical groups. These include the Twin City Choristers, a group founded in Winston-Salem in 1957; the Sea Notes Choral Society, founded in Brunswick County in 1974; at Duke University The Pitchforks (men's) and Out of the Blue (women's) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the Clef Hangers (men's) and the Loreleis (women's) a cappella groups.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 4, Sept 2007,
p132-134, 136, 138, 140, il, por
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Wilkes County, located in the western part of the state, is Our State magazine's featured Carolina county of the month.
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Mount Airy, located in Surry County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 12, May 2008,
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