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for "Blackburn, Charles, Jr."
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7772
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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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7787
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There are a number of castles, some complete with medieval-style battlements and fanciful towers, across the state. These include Castle McCulloch (Jamestown); Gimghoul Castle (Chapel Hill); Castle Mont Rouge (Durham); Graylyn (Winston-Salem); Elon Castle (Greensboro); and Homewood (Asheville).
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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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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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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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Wallace Wade, former Duke University football coach, auctioned his special 1942 Rose Bowl trophy for $10,000 to support children's cancer research. To win the trophy at auction and keep it at Duke, Dr. Lenox Baker, professor of orthopedic surgery at Duke, led the Baker Syndicate, a group of about fifty students, alumni, and parents. Each of the fifty bid $100. The other half of the $10,000 bid was made by Harold Mayer, former chairman of the board of Oscar Mayer and Co. The trophy recalls a special time in history. In 1942, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena, California, to Duke's stadium for safety reasons. This moved occurred just three weeks before the tournament was scheduled to take place. Even though Duke lost the game to Oregon State, Coach Wade was presented with a special trophy for organizing the event on such short notice. The trophy is now housed in the Duke Hall of Fame in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
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In 1911, the Vance Hotel in Henderson opened at the exact geographic center of town. People came from all over the East Coast to eat at the hotel; traveling troupes of actors would often spend the night there; but traveling salesmen were the biggest source of business. The Vance Hotel closed in 1977 but was recently bought by the Lighthouse Christian Fellowship, which uses it for its central offices and as a counseling center.
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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,
p136-138, 140, 142-143, il
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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,
p114-116, 118, 120, 122, il, por
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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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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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