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Believing that you can see more of the state on foot than from a car, photo-journalist Marty Harris walked 1,600 miles over three years and covered eighty counties in creating this pictorial essay.
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Curtis Ingram of Thomasville has a dream - to create a North Carolina Music Hall of Fame to honor the music and memory of the state's musicians. Although the hall incorporated in 1994 and received a $50,000 legislative grant in 1997, there is still no building in which to put the hall. Organizers hope fund-raisers and more publicity will generate funds to build the hall in 2001. The first seven inductees of the hall were inducted on September 25, 1999. They are Kay Kyser, Charlie Daniels, Billy Scott, Victoria Livengood, Loonis McGlohon, Bill Griffin, and the Chairmen of the Board beach band.
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The nation's two largest political parties share their names with two North Carolina communities, Democrat in Buncombe County and Republican in Bertie County. While one expects Democrat to be full of Democrats, it doesn't work that way in Republican, which is also full of Democrats. Of the 859 voters there, only 54 are registered Republicans. Tomlin recounts interesting anecdotes about the towns.
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Nancy Bartholomew, real name Nancy Long, is a successful mystery novelist living in Greensboro. Success did not come easily. Long, 45, had tried writing in college without much success and took a degree in social work. However in 1994, she got the writing urge again. She has published four books in the past two years; a fifth is due out in May 2001.
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Andy Scott, a retired University of North Carolina professor, has a lifetime love affair with water. So it was natural when he founded his publishing company, Carolina Coastal Press, the subjects would be about coastal North Carolina. Recently the company has added a new imprint, Carolina Women's Press, which will publish stories by and accomplishments of women in North Carolina.
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Tomlin compiles some of the state's most interesting records, including the largest collard, the longest string of chili pepper pods, the heaviest cantaloupe, and the world's longest sentence.
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Waxhaw resident Haskell Eargle has been in the florist business over fifty years, twenty-five of them as owner of Monroe Florist in Monroe. He has traveled extensively as a presenter and floral designer. For the past twenty-one years he has been connected with the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California, and more recently as a floral arranger for the Academy Awards. Among his awards is the coveted Award of Distinguished Service from the American Institute of Floral Designers.
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The Cypress Grill is a beloved seafood restaurant in Jamesville that attracts people from in state and without. The grill is open just three months a year, mid-January to late-April, which corresponds to the herring run on the Roanoke and other eastern Carolina rivers. Herring is the grill's main draw.
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Editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette of Hillsborough has been skewering public figures for thirty years. Along the way he has received the Pulitzer Prize (1988) and a number of other awards. He also created the popular comic strip \"Kudzu,\" which is syndicated in hundreds of newspapers worldwide.
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When his father died at the start of the 20th century, W. B. Aydelette dropped out of school and began selling ice cream in Greensboro to help support his family. In the 1930s he added hot dogs to his menu at his restaurant Yum Yum Better Ice Cream and his fortune was made. The restaurant soon became a Greensboro institution. Now owned by Aydelette's son and run by his grandson, Yum Yum's sold over 440,000 hot dogs in 2000.
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Forrest Mendenhall has 48 years' experience as a professional auctioneer. He also has a North Carolina state auctioneering championship title and has been inducted into the state and national halls of fame for auctioneers. He is the founder of the Mendenhall School of Auctioneering in High Point, which over the past 33 years, has graduated hundreds of first-rate auctioneers.
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How you like your barbecue depends on where you live in the state, east or west of Raleigh. Easterners like it chopped, vinegary-sauced, and whole-hog used. Westerners prefer it from the shoulder, tomato-sauced, and sliced. Tomlin discusses the two sides and their passionate supporters.
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Founded in Fayetteville in 1954 by Don Clayton, Putt-Putt Golf Courses of America, Inc., has about 140 franchises in this country and overseas. The course layout is copyrighted, insuring that players always play the same course wherever they are. There are 18 franchises in North Carolina, but strangely the city of its birth doesn't have one.
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North Carolina has a number of museums ranging from the North Carolina History Museum and North Carolina Art Museum to some that are just plain quirky and offbeat. Tomlin describes some of the latter, including the Belhaven Memorial Museum in Beaufort County and the Cowan Museum in Kenansville.
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Ashby Frank of Lexington is a mandolin prodigy. Still a teenager, he has won top honors in several mandolin competitions, including the Galax, Virginia Old Fiddler's Competition in 1997 and 1999, as well as the one at the 1999 MerleFest. He has also released a critically acclaimed CD and toured nationally and internationally.
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