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for Carolina Country Vol. 42 Issue 2, Feb 2010
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Beverly Eaves Purdue is North Carolina's seventy-third governor and the first woman to lead the state. After her first year in office, she looks back in this interview, to the past year and forward to what is next in the state's economy, energy, and rural needs.
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North Carolina's historically black colleges and universities range from small, private, four-year liberal arts colleges with enrollment in the hundreds to large public ones with enrollment in the thousands that offer a full range of program leading to doctoral degrees. Witherspoon provides a brief summary of each of the eleven schools.
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The Bostick Schoolhouse, built in 1880, is Richmond County's oldest school building and the only surviving one-room school. After restoration, the school was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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The Valdese Amoco Service Station was on the outskirts of the town of Valdese in Burke County. Herb Carswell operated it twelve to fourteen hours a day, six days a week. Parrish takes a nostalgic look back at how her father and many others ran service stations back in the 1950s.