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The Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge's open house in December is a great chance for people to rediscover nature and small \"critters\" of all kinds.
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Rev. Charles H. Dickey, a Baptist minister from Williamston, presents his arguments against the repeal of prohibition.
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Jerry Bledsoe writes state interest columns for the GREENSBORO NEWS AND RECORD and the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. Recently, he published CAROLINA CURIOSITIES. This book serves as a guide to almost all of North Carolina's festivals, tourist attractions, and curiosities. Included is information on such things as the Spivey Corner Hollering Contest, the Ayden Collard Festival, and Belhaven's flea marriage.
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Daniel Kanipe, born 1853, in McDowell County, enlisted in Troop C, 7th U.S. Cavalry at Lincolnton in 1872. While stationed at Yankton, South Dakota, he was under the command of General George Custer during the pursuit of Sioux and Cheyenne at Little Big Horn. Discovering the vast encampment of Indians, Custer dispatched Sergeant Kanipe with orders for Captains McDougall and Benteen to return at once with their respective companies. Kanipe, avoided the fate of his fellow soldiers and lived to fight in the 1878 campaign against the Northern Cheyennes. Kanipe worked for the U.S. Revenue Department and during World War I, Governor Bickett commissioned him captain of the 19th Company.
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\"Ecce Homo\" means \"Behold the Man\" and a painting entitled Ecce Homo captured a portrait of Christ and hangs in St. James Episcopal Church in Wilmington. Its arrival in Wilmington involved a classic swashbuckling tale. The portrait was reported to be stolen from a Spanish pirate vessel in 1747 when the pirates attempted an attack on Brunswick along the Cape Fear River but lost and one of their four ships sunk. Colonists retrieved goods, including the portrait, from on of the abandoned vessels for use in Brunswick and Wilmington churches.
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Since 1976, the Town of Halifax has performed the play \"First for Freedom.\" The summer production includes both fact and fiction in telling the story of Halifax's role during the Revolutionary War. The Halifax Resolves, signed a few months before the United States Declaration of Independence, was the first official declaration of independence from Great Britain. The play, written by Maxville Burt Williams, includes scenes from historic Halifax as well as scenes from the Fourth Provincial Congress that met at the Halifax courthouse on April 12, 1776.
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Pigeon Roost resident, Harvey James Miller, was sole contributor to the Winter 1974 edition of FOXFIRE MAGAZINE, a publication dedicated to preserving the knowledge of folkways, folklore, and crafts of southern Appalachia. Miller's homespun writing style and grassroots reporting provide an authentic and thorough account of a vanishing lifestyle.
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Hinsdale, a well-known attorney and legislator of Raleigh, presents his arguments in favor of repealing prohibition.
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Jane McKimmon was the first director of the North Carolina Home Demonstration Clubs and the state's first home demonstration agent. She began her work in 1909, and her job took her to many rural areas across the state. Her goal was to help rural women and girls learn how to improve their homes and their lives.
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Kate Vestal runs a millinery shop in Siler City, North Carolina, attends to all the business details in connection with and is in her 89th year.
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852
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Robert Rice Reynolds was a US Senator from Asheville who served from 1933 to 1945.
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Reports are given every fall, informing tourists of the period when mountain forest leaves will be at their peak color. Predicting this peak, however, is impossible, according to former U.S. Forest Service employees Arnold and Connie Krochmal. Color change in leaves varies by species and by individual tree, and the Krochmal's argue that elevation has no affect on the timing of a tree's color change. Leaves that change from green to yellow or orange are experiencing a physical change as the green chlorophyll dies. When this happens, the yellow colors that were present are able to be seen, as they are no longer masked by the leaf's green pigments. Leaves that change from green to a red or a purple are undergoing a chemical change, as plant foods stored in the leaf are converted to different compounds known as anthocyanins.
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The new North Carolina Supreme Court seal, designed by Ricky D. Horton of Concord, was adopted on October 14, 1975. The Latin phrase \"Suum Cuique\" has been amended to \"Suum Cuique Tribuere,\" thus changing the meaning from \"to each his own\" to \"to give to everyone his due.\" The seal will appear on all official court documents.
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880
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Fields of the Wood is a Bible-related theme park near Murphy.
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As early as 1819, a new method of transportation had appeared on the American scene in the form of two wheels, separated by a wooden bar, on top of which was a padded seat. Called a draisine, for its inventor, Baron Von Drais, the contraption was manipulated by the push and coast method. In the early 1870s, the standard \"high wheel\" or \"ordinary\" bike was easily the favorite model of cyclists. The first bicycle owned in the state of North Carolina belonged to three businessmen in Wilmington who each contributed fifty dollars towards the total purchase price and placed an order for a Columbia bicycle with the Pope Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut.
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