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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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2.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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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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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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8.That Mysterious Chocowinity Light by Blackburn, Charles, Jr. New East Vol. 4 Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1976
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35490
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The mysterious light along a set of railroad tracks in this town was resumed to be the ghost of a train engineer. The endurance of the tale throughout the decades and generations can be explained by the adage “everyone loves a good mystery.”
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35676
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Joseph Seawell Jones was known as a hoax master. His talent originated during his boyhood in Shocco Creek and continued through academic stints at the University of North Carolina and Harvard. One hoax was a bank caper orchestrated in Columbus, Missouri. It involved “Cape Fear Money,” actually blank slips of paper, and “Public Documents,” actually old newspapers.
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