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7989
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Agriculture is the state's top industry, and through the years a number of men and women have been pioneers in the science and art of agriculture and have served as leaders and ambassadors of the agricultural community. The North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame, created in 1953, honors the accomplishments of thirty-three men and women. Members include Leonidas L. Polk, Jane S. McKimmon, W. Kerr Scott, Benjamin W. Kilgore, and Ruth A. Current.
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State-operated farmers' markets are a uniquely Southern phenomenon. They provide customers fresh produce and give small farmers an outlet for their crops. The five state-owned regional markets in North Carolina are the Piedmont Triad Farmers Market (Colfax); Western North Carolina Farmers Market (Asheville); Charlotte Regional Farmers Market (Charlotte); Southeastern North Carolina Agricultural Center Farmers Market (Lumberton); and the State Farmers Market at Raleigh (Raleigh).
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Bernice Kelly Harris is one of thirty-one authors in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Blackburn discusses her life and literary accomplishments.
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Blackburn recounts the life of Nina Simone, who was born in Tryon and died in the south of France. Her career as a singer and composer of jazz and popular music spanned fifty years. Her music embraced all styles: jazz, folk, classical, pop, gospel, blues, Broadway, rock, and opera and was recorded in over fifty albums.
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There are 36 authors in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Among them are ten remarkable women, including Inglis Fletcher, Bernice Kelly Harris, and Wilma Dykeman. Together they have produced over 130 books, including novels, stories, poems, plays, and memoirs.
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9888
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The James Adams Floating Theatre, a showboat built in Washington, North Carolina, in 1914, brought theater to residents of coastal and inland waterways from the Chesapeake Bay to the Carolinas. Blackburn describes the days that famed American author Edna Ferber sailed on the vessel to gather information for her acclaimed novel SHOW BOAT.
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Few things go together better than the beach and a good book. North Carolina has an abundance of good coastal bookstores, each with a character all its own. Blackburn profiles a few of them including the Island Bookstore (Duck and Corolla); Buxton Village Books (Buxton); Manteo Booksellers (Manteo); Quarter Moon Books & Gifts (Topsail Beach); Dee Gee's Gifts & Books (Morehead City); and Lowell's Bookworm (Holden Beach).
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 12, May 2006,
p174-176, 178, 180, 182, il
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Two-and-a-half centuries ago, colonial settlers in North Carolina held legislatively authorized lotteries. The first held in 1759, raised 450 English pounds for construction of two Anglican churches. After the Revolutionary War, lotteries became a popular method for funding projects of all types. High-priority projects were internal improvements including waterways, bridges, canals, roads, and railroads. The University of North Carolina built South Building with money raised through 1801 legislation. Various county projects included a marine hospital, a poorhouse in Brunswick County, and a water system for Fayetteville in Cumberland County.
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Over thirty-five years ago Gene Medler was an athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Blackburn discusses Medler's transition from athlete to dancer. For almost thirty years, he has been teaching rhythm tap to students in the Triangle and audiences worldwide.
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Blackburn discusses the Wendell Harvest Festival, which is held in the town each year in early October. The regionally famous festival began in the early 1900s when tobacco was king in Wendell and the surrounding area. Today the festival is as much about the present as the past, celebrating the importance of tobacco and farming to Wendell's heritage as well as celebrating the present-day culture and life of the community.
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North Carolina has a rich history of stories of buried treasure. Over the centuries many North Carolinians, armed with shovels, maps, or just word-of-mouth, have sought these riches. Blackburn discusses some of these treasure troves, including Blackbeard's gold, gold buried by Confederates near the end of the Civil War, and Money Island in Greenville Sound near Wrightsville Beach.
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North Carolina's yearly storytelling festivals attract large crowds who come to enjoy performances by some of the state's most talented voices. Blackburn describes some of them, including the Asheville Tellebration (Asheville); Toe River Festival (Spruce Pine); Catawba Valley Storytelling Festival (Newton); North Carolina Storytelling Guild Festival (Charlotte); North Carolina Storyfest (Greensboro); Wake County Storytelling Festival (Raleigh); Henderson Storytelling Festival (Henderson); Swansboro Festival (Swansboro); Manteo Ghost Story Festival (Manteo); and the Ocrafolk Festival (Ocracoke).
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 6, Nov 2006,
p126-128, 130, 132, 134, il, por
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Greenville, county seat of Pitt County, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel town of the month. Originally named Martinsborough for the state's last royal governor, the city was moved to its present location on the Tar River in 1774 and renamed Greenville for Revolutionary War hero Gen. Nathaniel Greene. Greenville is home to East Carolina University and the East Carolina University School of Medicine. Cotton and tobacco drove the economy from the mid-19th century until these crops faltered in the late 20th-century. Today's major industries include DSM Pharmaceuticals, Harper Brush Works, Grady-White Boats, and ASMO, a maker of electric motors.
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Ruth Faison Shaw was born in Kenansville in 1888. She was a visionary artist and educator who rediscovered the ancient art of finger painting and took it to new heights. Shaw first introduced finger painting to the country in the 1930s at the Dalton School in New York. Exhibitions of paintings by Shaw and her students received glowing reviews, and she published a book in 1934 explaining her ideas on the technique. The most important aspect of her work came when she recognized finger painting's potential in the treatment of mental illness. Finger painting is now widely used by psychiatrists as a method to approach severely disturbed patients. Shaw returned to North Carolina in the 1950s and was a consultant in art therapy in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until her death.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 10, Mar 2007,
p108-110, 112-113, il, por
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The Van Staaldiunen family left Holland in 1938, just before the outbreak of World War II. American immigration laws forced them to go to Canada for five years before they could enter the country in 1943. Finally settled on a farm in Beaufort County near Terra Ceia, the family began planting tulips. Over the years the farm has diversified, with over 1,200 acres devoted to corn and soybeans and 250 acres devoted to the cultivation of cut flowers.
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