Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
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29574
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This article highlights fifty things people should see, do, cook, read, and drink when visiting the southern states. Among the suggested experiences in North Carolina are hang gliding in Kitty Hawk, square dancing in Waynesville, surf-fishing in Cape Hatteras, watching a solar eclipse in the Smoky Mountains, and visiting a craft brewery.
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 11 Issue 2, Apr/May 2017,
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17841
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Charlotte, a 20th-century center of cotton mill enterprise, is making a name for itself as a twenty-first century center of culinary arts.
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23101
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In 2006, chef Vivian Howard and her husband Ben Knight opened their restaurant Chef and the Farmer near Kinston, North Carolina. After spending years in New York City, the couple returned to Vivian's hometown and have now built a unique farmhouse in Deep Run.
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 8 Issue 4, August/September 2014,
p60-64, il, por
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34510
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Haw Hill Raceway in Winnabow, North Carolina holds its first Wilmington Crash Derby, a semiannual demolition/racing event. Drivers in a full-contact race have two strikes to stay through until the last heat, and only one winner will stand at the end of the night.
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23107
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Unlike other North Carolina cities, Raleigh's identity has been difficult to pinpoint. However, a new group of creative minds is changing that, as Raleigh becomes a center for clothing and graphic designers, architects, as well as artists.
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 9 Issue 1, February/March 2015,
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34509
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In Mount Airy, North Carolina, a couple decides to collaborate with a landscaper to design the perfect gardens to match their quirky house. The front side of the house shows a red brick façade from 1834 that requires a tame, structured garden. The other side is a 20th-century stone addition that requires a whimsical, free-flowing Victorian style garden to go with the kitchen garden.
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29570
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Each year, Garden & Gun magazine publishes an issue featuring a photograph of a dog on the cover. The dogs are part of the magazine’s “Good Dog” column and have included noble retrievers, proud pointers, and regal setters. To celebrate the magazine’s tenth anniversary, this issue’s cover features a photograph of three of their favorite canine cover stars in Garland, North Carolina.
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43688
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Mike Hester, a Mebane, North Carolina native " has spent decades turning his family's farm into a into a hotbed of wild quail and champion birddogs."
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23103
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This article showcases the best field guides in the South, varying from those who specialize in hunting, fishing, and navigating the landscape. Three guides from North Carolina are featured, including Craig Byers from Weaverville, Matt Maness from Boone, and Seth Vernon from Wilmington.
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 8 Issue 6, December/January 2014,
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24769
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Born in Southwestern Virginia, Lee Smith is an American fiction author who has won a number of awards, including the North Carolina Award for Literature. In this autobiographical piece, Smith discusses her influences—including Appalachia, Eudora Welty, and James Still—and her journey as a writer.
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29577
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In November 2016, a widespread fire ignited in the Great Smoky Mountains, a region located on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. Residents of Gatlinburg, Tennessee describe their experiences during the fire and it impacted their lives.
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 11 Issue 3, June/July 2017,
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43753
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"A pilot and novelist recalls his most memorable airborne misadventures." Clyde Edgerton talks about "lost bad" experience as an ROTC cadet in college, flying a Piper Cherokee140 small civilian aircraft/
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29580
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In the hills outside Asheville, North Carolina, Bob and Judy McLean cultivate six thousand dahlia flowers covering three acres of what they call, Poppins Posies. Originally cultivated by the Aztecs, dahlias are perennial mountain flowers that survive until frost. The McLeans have grown hybrids of dahlias and their garden is now a small family business.
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43704
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A former North Carolina Plantation known as Snow Hill, now lies as land conservancy that was pioneered by two sisters, Delphine Sellars and Luclle Patterson. The two want this new beginning to resemble "a model for providing land to African American gardeners and farmers."
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31544
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Celebrate the south’s bivalve renaissance at one of these new oyster bars. This article features two North Carolina restaurants, Sea Level in Charlotte and The Kathrine Brasserie and Bar in Winston-Salem.
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 10 Issue 5, Oct/Nov 2016,
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