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Bald Head Island is a mix of the old (Bald Head Lighthouse, built in 1817) and the new (million dollar homes). A place of serenity for visitors and residents, it is also the East Coast's last undeveloped cape.
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Charles Kuralt - author, traveler, journalist, and host of CBS-TV's Sunday Morning program - passed away July 4, 1997.
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Born in Charlotte, evangelist Billy Graham has conducted religious crusades in this country and all over the world. In his sixty-year ministry, he has preached to more people than anyone else in the history of the world.
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Old Salem and the Moravians are historical fixtures around Winston-Salem. Less well known is Afro-American life in Salem, the relationship between Afro-Americans and Moravians, and their neighborhood of Happy Hill. New research is bringing this to light.
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Stokesdale, in Guilford County, faces a choice that confronts many small towns: leave things as they are or change them. Change, which would attract business, developments, and more people, could cause the town to lose its small-town appeal.
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Normally found on Northern buildings, gargoyles and other grotesques decorate a number of Asheville's old buildings. Biltmore's construction contributed to this. Local citizens employed the mansion's European artisans to create similar designs for them.
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In the20th-century, the state's literary heritage is well-served through abundant contributions from numerous writers. Today, Tar Heel writers are beginning to receive national recognition.
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Chris Roth of Old Fort sculpts totem poles, animals, and people with a unique instrument - a chainsaw. Taught by his father, Roth fetches an average of $100 a foot for his work. More elaborate pieces are priced higher. At twenty-four, he is the youngest chainsaw carver in the country.
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During the Christmas season, some of the most cherished memories occur around a hearth with a decorated mantle. Some of the best-known places with distinctive hearths include Asheville's Biltmore Estate, with sixty-five fireplaces, and the Grove Park Inn, which boasts two fireplaces that can burn logs up to eight feet long.
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Friends and colleagues of Charles Kuralt remember the famous broadcast-journalist in his early days before he went off to New York and the CBS network.
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The North Carolina Zoological Park is marking its twenty-fifth anniversary in 1999. Having opened in 1974 with a forty-acre Interim Zoo, the park now covers 1,450 acres and features over 1,100 animals and 60,000 plants.
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Steve and Sandy Forest started Brushy Mountain Bee Farm in their kitchen over twenty years ago. The farm, located near Wadesboro, had revenues of over $2 million in 1998. The Forests not only raise bees and sell honey, but they also have a web site, publish a catalog, and supply beekeepers worldwide with supplies through a mail-order service.
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Macon County is the seventh fastest-growing county in the state. Between 1990 and 1998, the people moving into the county accounted for over 21 percent of its population growth. Most came from the larger cites of the North and South. Such growth fuels service and retail sectors, which helps to offset the decline in the county's manufacturing jobs. While some residents fear the influx of people, the prohibition against building on the county's 152,000 acres of national forest helps to control population sprawl.
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With four acres under roof, Asheville's Biltmore Estate is the country's largest private home. When Christmas at Biltmore began in 1976, $50,000 was spent on decorating, and a few thousand visitors came. Today over $1 million is spent on decorations, and over 200,000 come to look at them between November 6 and January 2. Among the decorations are 38 Christmas trees, some 40 feet high; 300 wreaths; and 4 miles of garland.
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As a young naval lieutenant-commander during World War II, Herbert Hitch of Charlotte was sent to China in 1944 to make contact with Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung. Mao gave him a confidential letter to bring back to Admiral Frank King. The contents of the letter, if acted upon, could have altered the course of history.
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