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36545
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Playwright Gary Carden composed two monologues from true events of murder. One was from Lewis Redmond, a renowned bootlegger and killer of a federal marshal, and the other from Nance Dude, who did not defend the accusations of abandonment leading to the death of her toddler grandchild.
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35532
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A poem about a legendary monster of the Maori people, the Taniwha.
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1166
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The J&E Toy Run in Greenville is a ten-years-running charity event that brings out bikers of all types (mostly Harley-Davidson owners) who deliver toys to the needy and other items to the Salvation Army.
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35144
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This article features several haints, or ghost stories, that the author had heard while growing up in Wilkes County.
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35145
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This is the origin of UNC Chapel Hill’s official song. It is set to the tune of Amici, and was originally sung by a glee club, although many of the lyrics are different now. Several of the verses are included.
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35150
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This is the author’s take on the origin of the phrase “he ought to be bored for the simples.”
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35745
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Music from South Turkey Creek is a record that features performances by Bascom Lamar Lunsford and two of his protégés.
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1735
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Wilkes County native Otis \"Otto\" Wood is one of the more colorful and famous lawbreakers in the state. His exploits, one of which was the murder of a popular Greensboro store owner, inspired the ballad \"Otto Wood the Bandit.\"
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35718
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Built upon the rivalry between UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University, well-known jokes have arisen over the years. Samplings of these jokes have been included, categorized by agricultural orientation, stupidity, boorishness, backward sexual and social behavior, and miscellaneous.
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35293
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The author lists ingredients commonly found in drugstores that were included in people’s home remedies. Along with the ingredient, Wilson lists what it was ailments it was used for.
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1658
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Thomasville resident George SerVance, one of North Carolina's most accomplished woodcarvers, and his wife Donnis, who paints George's carved dolls, were honored with the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award.
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35160
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A song inspired by the true event of a woman, Lottie Yates, getting murdered by her husband in Kentucky, 1895. Complete with the lyrics and sheet music.
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35195
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Silas McDowell collected these two stories, “A Forced Marriage” and “Circumstantial Evidence,” from Mrs. Nancy McEntire, the woman whom he boarded with in Morganton, NC.
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16239
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Ruchala takes on the history and culture of the Blue-Ridge string-band tradition of the Blue Ridge and Piedmont sections of North Carolina. By focusing on the story of \"Sally Ann,\" Ruchala explores the issues of tradition and revival, continuity and change, insider and outsider, and music and dance.