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Seeger profiles Cathy Smith Bowers, North Carolina's newest poet laureates.
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Our State magazine features Hot Springs, located in Madison County, in its Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
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In the late 19th century, Buffalo City in Dare County was a thriving logging town, but by the 1920s the area's useful timber was about depleted. That was when the town was revived by a new industry -- moonshine whiskey.
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Biltmore, the home of George Vanderbilt near Asheville, is North Carolina's grandest home. Henion describes the behind the scenes and inner workings of the mansion through four tours: The Butler's Tour; The Vanderbilt Family and Friends Tour; The Legacy of the Land Tour; and The Architect's Tour.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2011,
p80-86, 88, 90, 92, 94-96, il
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Zerwick discusses three generations of women who have left their mark on Reynolda House.\r\n\r\n
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(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2011,
p98-100, 102, 104-106, 108, 110, 112, il, por
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Sneed describes the historic Coolmore Plantation, located near Tarboro. Built in 1860 for J.J.W. Powell, a physician and cotton planter, this Italian villa is one of the most significant structures in North Carolina.
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(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2011,
p114-116, 118, 120, 122, 124, il
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Shaffer describes Whitley Furniture Galleries, operated by Charles Estes and his sister Nelle Carroll. They are the fourth-generation to run the business, which is still located in the red brick building where it began in Zebulon over one hundred years ago.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh is home to the most visible expression of Jewish cultural heritage in the South. Housed in the Judaic Art Gallery, the collection owes much to Dr. Abram Kanof, who championed its creation. The museum is one of only two general collections in the nation with a permanent Judaic collection.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 10, Mar 2011,
p140-142, 144, 146-147, il
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13723
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Will Rehder Florist, now known as Julia's Florist, has been providing flowers to Wilmington citizens' special events since 1872.
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38291
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Profiled are Calvary Episcopal Church and Churchyard, Tarboro; Old Burying Ground, Beaufort; St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Bath; Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington. Accompanying photos of cemeteries and tombstones was information such as brief church histories and cemeteries’ unique qualities. As for their tombstones, they are utilitarian and decorative, indicating aspects such as religious affiliation; economic status; relationship to other families in the cemetery; evidence or absence of kinship to the Coastal Plain region’s earliest settlers.
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Calvary Episcopal Church (Tarboro); Calvary Episcopal Church and Churchyard (Tarboro) ; Old Burying Ground (Beaufort); St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Bath); Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington); Calvary Episcopal Church (Tarboro)--All Saints' Chapel; Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1814-1899; Cemeteries--North Carolina, Eastern; Cemeteries--North Carolina, Coastal Plain; Tombstones; Gravestones; Taylor, Nathaniel; Taylor Creek (Beaufort); Water table--North Carolina; Family cemeteries--Bath ; Rural cemetery movement--Oakdale Cemetery--Wilmington; Wootten, Bradley Jewett, 1876-1901; Langdon, Richard F., 1828-1895; Murchinson, David Reid, 1837-1882; Rural cemeteries--North Carolina--Oakdale Cemetery; Civil War veterans--Wilmington--Oakdale Cemetery