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The North Carolina Arboretum, located on the outskirts of Asheville, contains a unique garden called the Heritage Garden. The garden contains plants that the early Appalachian settlers used to create and enhance the necessities of life. Broomcorn was used by Indians, settlers, and now present-day artisans to make brooms. Marigolds, yarrow, and butterfly weed were sources for natural fabric dyeing.
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In the town of Brevard, located in Transylvania County, the whole community participates in the Halloween spirit. Orange and black colors decorate the downtown areas. Merchants put up elaborate window decorations. Cornstalks, pumpkins, and scarecrows appear all over the town, and citizens put ghostly displays in their yards. For the past quarter of a century, October has culminated in a community celebration called the Halloweenfest.
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Stephen Jackson of Brevard is the founder, owner, and curator of the one-of-a-kind aluminum Christmas tree museum. These shiny trees were popular in the mid-20th-century. Now in its ninth year, the mobile seasonal display contains nearly 100 trees. Foster has compiled an extensive list of around 40 manufacturers of this type of tree, their production dates, and descriptions of over 30 different kinds of branches.
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John and Terry Graedon of Chapel Hill are a health conscious couple. Their popular People's Pharmacy series of books, a thrice-weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a weekly radio call-in program on National Public Radio reach millions of people each week. Joe Graedon has a master's degree in pharmacology, and Terry has a Ph.D. in medical anthropology. On the radio and in their books and columns the Graedons deal with questions about common health concerns.
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7873
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When George Vanderbilt purchased 125,000 acres near Asheville to build his home, Biltmore, he also hired landscape architects and forestry experts to restore land that had been eroded and poorly harvested. He hired the well-known forester Gilford Pinchot to implement sound forestry practices. When Pinchot left to head the U.S. Forest Service in 1895, Vanderbilt replaced him with Carl Schenck, a forester from Germany. Schenck founded the Biltmore Forest School in 1898, the first forestry school in the nation. During the school's fifteen years of operation, 350 foresters from all over the country graduated. What they learned and later practiced in their home areas laid the foundations for forest management practices that we take for granted today. The school and 6,500 acres surrounding it were designated a national historic site in 1976.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 1, June 2006,
p168-170, 172, 174, 176-177, il
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Pottery has been a tradition in the Seagrove area dating back to Native Americans and later to the first European settlers who moved there. In 2006, around one hundred potters live, work, and sell their creations in the surrounding four-county region. Foster describes a weekend visit there, starting with a stop at the North Carolina Pottery Center, places to eat and stay, and where the potters are.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 2, July 2006,
p100-102, 104, 106, 108, il
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