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Pittsboro, county seat of Chatham County, is featured in Our State Magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section. One thing that makes Pittsboro distinctive is that it has its own currency. Places to visit there include the Carolina Tiger Rescue, Starlight Mead, the Oak Leaf Restaurant, Circle City Books & Music, and The Woodwright's School and Tool Shop. Owner Roy Underhill is known by everyone and he is featured on his PBS show.
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Carolina Barbecue began in 1975 in a small kitchen in a single-wide trailer in Lexington. It is a family-owned business run by the McPhersons. The first restaurant went up in High Point. Later brothers Tony and Dewey purchased property on Wendover Avenue in Greensboro in 1980. Ewing recounts what keeps barbecue lovers coming back over the following thirty-three years.
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The great flood of July 16, 1916 broke all records and caused death and destruction in Western North Carolina. That day twenty-two inches of rain fell over the western mountains in twenty-four hours, sending flood waters surging through Asheville, Belmont, Marshall, and other communities. Eighty people were killed, and property damages were almost $23 million.
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Sylvan Heights Bird Park and Eco Center, located in Scotland Neck in Halifax County, is one of North Carolina's best-kept secrets. Mike and Ali Lubbock operate the center which boasts the largest collection of waterfowl in the world and is a conservation and research orientated center for birds, especially rare and endangered waterfowl. Sylvan contains about 2,000 birds. The park opened to the public in 2006.
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18731
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Chitwood discusses the state of poetry in North Carolina and illustrates with excerpts from several poets.
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Jugtown Pottery, a Seagrove tradition, is almost one hundred years old. Turner discusses two of the families who have kept it alive, the Busbees and the Owens, and how knowledge of the pottery spread beyond the state.
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Reverend Alexander Davis Betts' conviction drove him to follow the 30th North Carolina Regiments for whom he went above and beyond his duty as a field chaplain. The Cumberland County native attended the University of North Carolina and during his college career converts to Methodism, becoming an adamant student of the gospel and began preaching before his graduation. Betts war-time career began on October 25, 1861, serving in many of the major conflicts; Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor. During the conflict Betts carried out his chaplain duties while also assisted with dispersing supplies, caring for the wounded, and burying the dead. After the war, Betts preached across his home state for fifty years.
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