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Rocky Mount has opened a new theater called The Playhouse.
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The ancient game of wickets and mallets is making quite a comeback in the Tar Heel state.
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1024
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Past state lotteries in North Carolina have helped finance roads, schools, and churches.
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The annual Uncle Eli's Quilting Party is a 61 year-old quilting festival in Alamance County.
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Flay Terres of Gastonia, a retired machinist, has developed his own art form, creating unique wooden vases from a wide variety of wood types.
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Over the years, cities and towns across the state have adopted slogans and nicknames to identify their communities and foster economic development.
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1471
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Friday looks at the public service aspect of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discussing health programs, programs for children and families, public school support, cultural programs, and programs for promoting business and technology
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The Wake County town of Fuquay-Varina has made a successful transition from a tobacco crossroads to a vibrant, high-tech industrial center.
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Buncombe County artist Norma Bradley creates uniquely decorated gardens called earth quilts, which use the earth as their fabric and rocks and plants for color and texture. Since 1986, she has created 26 quilts across the state.
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2018
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With its 210-foot tower and grand Gothic spires, Duke University's world-famous chapel has been an integral part of student and campus life since the laying of the last stones in 1932.
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2019
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Approximately thirty times a year in the state's three regions, Native Americans hold powwows, or gatherings, to celebrate their cultures and recreate tribal traditions.
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Since 1902 the North Carolina Museum of History lacked a permanent home; but in 1994 the Museum opened a new, 55,000-square-foot building in Raleigh for exhibiting art and artifacts of North Carolina and its people.
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2025
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The tombstones and markers in North Carolina's 75,000 cemeteries, burial grounds, and grave sites are a treasure trove of the state's history and ethnic and cultural diversity.
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2071
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To encourage the Christmas mood, North Carolina offers a number of seasonal events each year. They include Christmas at the Biltmore Estate, Festival of Trees in Wilmington, the Historic Oakwood Tour in Raleigh, and a Christmas Candle Tea at Old Salem.
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Support for the arts in North Carolina is a rare blend of public and private monies and individuals. This has encouraged the growth of a diverse community of creativity in such areas as filmmaking, music, painting, literature, and folk crafts
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