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More than half of the young men in North Carolina who went to local draft boards to enlist in World War II were declared medically unfit, a higher rejection rate than any other state. Responding to this health crisis, the state launched its Good Health Plan over sixty-two years ago. Blackburn discusses how North Carolina transformed itself from a state in need of better health care to a state that is a national leader in medical treatment, education, and research.
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10735
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While Abraham Lincoln claimed Kentucky as his birthplace, stories exist that his real birthplace was North Carolina. Blackburn describes the Bostic Lincoln Center, a museum in Bostic, NC that seeks to disprove Kentucky's claim.
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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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President John F. Kennedy handpicked James E. Webb, a native of Tally Ho near Oxford in Granville County, to lead the NASA mission to land Americans on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
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For canoe enthusiasts, eastern North Carolina provides 1,200 miles of navigable waters. Two proponents of this activity are Paul Ferguson, who has explored the state's waterways for thirty-five years and is the author of the guidebook, PADDLING EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA, and Tom Potter, Executive Director of the nonprofit North Carolina Paddle Trails Association.
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9872
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The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame, located at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines, seeks to honor, preserve and promote the state's rich literary legacy. To date, forty-two North Carolina authors have been inducted. Gerald Barrax, Fred Chappell, and Elizabeth Daniels Squire were the 2006 inductees.
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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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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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9.The Dean of North Carolina History by Blackburn, Charles, Jr. Our State Vol. 76 Issue 1, June 2008
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10134
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William S. Powell is professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After World War II, Powell began his life's work in 1948, as a research historian at the North Carolina Office of Archives and History and later spent the bulk of his career at UNC. A leading authority on the people and events that have shaped North Carolina over the last four hundred years, he has written many books on the state's history and geography.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 1, June 2008,
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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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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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North Carolina's longest running dance, the Carolina Dance Society's annual Spring German, has been taking place at Raynor's Warehouse in Rocky Mount since 1870. Blackburn recounts the history of the dance. The german was a two-step dance with a leader who goes at the head of its intricate figures. The dance was the social event of the region and attracted hundreds to the warehouse where it was held, some from as far away as Atlanta and Houston.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 12, May 2007,
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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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In 1901, Eleanor Vance and Charlotte Yale came to Asheville as missionaries after earlier graduating from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago with the purpose of helping people in the mountain communities. They went on to teach valuable weaving and wood carving skills to many of the residents and eventually founded Biltmore Estate Industries, one of the country's most famous crafts enterprises. While weaving was done at Biltmore, hand-carved wooden toys were made by the Tryon Toy-Makers and Wood-Carvers Shop in Tryon. The most famous creation from this shop was Morris the Horse, which became a town trademark.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 5, Oct 2007,
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North Carolina has been home to a number of families that began businesses on the proverbial shoestring and went on to grow great enterprises that benefitted their communities and the state. Among them are the Dukes, Reynolds, Belks, Hanes, and Cones.
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