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6821
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Robinson continues this series which profiles North Carolina writers, as well as those who have written in or about the state. Included in this latest installment are Margaret Rabb, Ron Rash, T. J. Reddy, David Rigsbee, and Nancy Roberts.
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19649
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The history of the discovery and colonization of North Carolina is as diverse as it is exciting. During the Age of Exploration, Europeans including Italian navigator Giovanni Da Verrazano in 1524 and German explorer Johann Lederer in 1670 explored and documented the state's natives, coasts, and inlands.
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19660
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Cherokee, North Carolina has changed greatly over the past one-hundred years as the Cherokee culture has changed concurrently. At the turn of the 20th century, the Bureau of Ethnology reported that the Indian day is nearly spent. At the turn of the 21st century, Cherokee has adapted to modern culture and thrived while doing so. While changing to meet the times, many in the community continue to spread traditional Cherokee culture through the art of storytelling. By collecting these stories, the community can be assured that Cherokee culture will always survive.
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19661
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Owning a small, fine dining establishment can be a vast amount of work as the author Lorraine Hale Robinson found out while spending a day at the Four Square, an acclaimed Triangle restaurant. During her fourteen-hour day, the author saw the owner/chef take part in almost every activity in the kitchen while she herself became an active participant in several kitchen activities.
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19662
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Upon her retirement in 1990, Rocky Mount native Mary Williams Barnes wrote her memoirs about growing up on her parents' tobacco farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Titled \"Tom and Betsy's Family,\" the book chronicles the importance of tobacco farming to the area, how family life occurred on a rural tobacco farm, and the vernacular history past down from generation to generation in the area.
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