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"A devoted son honors his mom -- and all of North Carolina's mill workers -- through the Morganton-based Workers' Legacy Project". For 33 years, Mary Warlick served as a hosiery repairer at the Garrou-Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mills. The project gives former mill workers their due, preserving their memories through oral histories. This assemblage in turn is serving as a foundation for a documentary to be released in 2024. Partnering with the project is the History Museum of Burke County. On April 16, 2023, a monument referred to as the "Dignity of Work Monument", honoring mill workers was installed in front of the museum.
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"Throughout its history, Winston Salem's Piedmont Airlines stayed one step ahead of the competition by coming up with innovative ways to satisfy its customers, like a one-of-a kind beverage that former passengers and employees still thirst for." From its beginnings in 1948, the airline always looked at ways to distinguish itself. Piedmont punch was introduced in October 1981. The 1989 merger with another airline was the beverage's demise. Chris Runge is curator and historian of the Piedmont Aviation Historical Society. A recipe of the original punch is included in the article.
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"In Wagram, the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society Hall offers a revealing glimpse into the lives of Scottish immigrants who answered a higher calling." The Society was established in 1855. Members pledged to neither buy sell or drink any intoxicating beverage. Members met for about 40 years. the building was later used as a school and for tobacco storage. It was restored in 1959