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The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) is located deep within the Pisgah National Forest near Rosman. Two towering radio telescopes are located there, as well as eight optical telescopes, two smaller radio telescopes, and over thirty buildings. Coffey describes the mountain astronomical center's activities, which include education, research, and public outreach.
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Coffey discusses the creations of Watauga County natives Daniel Winkler and Karen Shook. Winkler crafts knives, and Shook makes the sheaths that hold them. They have been practicing their crafts full time for almost twenty years in the Boone and Blowing Rock area. Both are self-taught. Their creations are historically influenced and focus on the period of the 1700s. Through a museum artifact Shook discovered that rawhide is a more appropriate and durable material for knives than leather, and her sheaths complement Winkler's blade designs.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 5, Oct 2007,
p102-104, 106, 108, 110, il
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Alleghany County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. The county is somewhat distinct among the mountain counties because the landscape is more like a plateau combined with mountain ranges and high summits. The county is among the state's smallest, but it ranks third in the production of Christmas trees. The Blue Ridge Parkway and the New River and its tributaries attract tourists. Loss of some manufacturing facilities has slowed the economy, but the county is still home to manufacturers who produce a variety of products, including paper products, game boards, packaging materials, wrought iron furniture, and structural products, like truck trailers.
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On an August evening in 1788, outside the town of Jonesborough (which was then inside the borders of North Carolina), two men faced each other with pistols in hand, ready to fight a duel. Waightstill Avery, one of western North Carolina's most prominent lawyers and citizens, was one of the men. Andrew Jackson was the other. A courtroom altercation had brought both men to the town's outskirts. Coffey recounts the events leading to the duel and the duel itself.
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Fort Defiance, the Caldwell County home of Revolutionary War General William Lenoir, takes its name from a local frontier fort. The state purchased the structure from the Lenoir family in the mid-1960s. Now a historic site, Fort Defiance has been restored to its 1792 appearance, complete with over 300 articles, ranging from books to furniture, originally owned by Lenoir.
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