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Cynvia Arthur received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1972. A native of Salisbury, she began painting a historical mural in downtown Salisbury in 1978, on an outside wall of Maxwell Furniture Company. The mural was dedicated in 1980 but was not completed until 1981. Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Sara Hodgkins, was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremonies. Over $30,000 had to be raised to fund the painting of the mural, which depicts scenes of turn-of-the-century life in Rowan County.
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In the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries, the U.S. Congress allowed senators to orate long speeches every Saturday. These speeches were written down and printed in newspapers. One Saturday in 1820, North Carolina senator Felix Walker announced he wanted to “make a speech for Buncombe.†He then launched into a speech lasting several hours during which he did not say anything useful. Such a speech became known as BUNCOMBE and appears in the unabridged Merriam-Webster English dictionary.
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The first Cary Band Day was organized by Matt Brady and the Cary High School Band Boosters in 1959. Band Day continues to be held on the second Saturday in November each year. Every year several hundred high school bands from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia are invited to attend, and the first fifty to respond are accepted to march in the parade. There is a field competition following the parade, with judges from university music programs and the National Band Organization. Awards are given after the last band plays, usually around midnight.
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