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North Carolina is home to a number of small publishing companies, including Coastal Carolina Press, McFarland & Company, and Algonquin Books. These and other local publishers are becoming a force in the book world. The emphasis is on quality. Books generally have small runs, but some, like Gap Creek, run to 600,000. Titles are those New York publishers don't consider profitable, like The Volcano Registry; Japanese Baseball, A Statistical Handbook; and The Greek Filmography.
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At the mouth of the Cape Fear River sits the small town of Southport. Grizzle describes how to spend a perfect weekend there, enjoying nature, history, and especially the great seafood.
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Hugh Morton is a strong promoter of North Carolina. He headed the first Azalea Festival in Wilmington in 1948; fought to save the USS North Carolina and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse; fought twelve years to keep the Blue Ridge Parkway from going over his mountain (It went around. The viaduct on Grandfather Mountain is an engineering marvel.); built the Mile-High Swinging Bridge on Grandfather Mountain; and for sixty years took photographs of the state and its people.
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Beaufort, incorporated in 1722 in Carteret County, is the state's third-oldest town. Grizzle describes how to spend a perfect weekend there, enjoying nature, history, Harkers Island, and great seafood.
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Located in Buncombe County, Asheville, with a population of slightly over 60,000, is home to Biltmore and a variety of other attractions. Grizzle describes how to spend a perfect weekend there, enjoying a wide selection of unique eating establishments, shops, and Blue Ridge Parkway.
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William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil was born in Asheville in 1928 on what had been his grandfather's estate. The estate is now known to the world as Biltmore. In the 1950s, Cecil returned to his birthplace to transform the crumbling 250-room structure into the historic treasure and tourist attraction it is today.
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5779
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People, places, and things we grew up with give us a sense of place in time. Across the state many of these things, including service station attendants, clotheslines, downtown movie houses, soda fountains in drugstores, and dialects, are slowly disappearing from the scene.
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6761
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Grizzle describes three luxury bed and breakfast establishments found in North Carolina's three geographic areas. These three grand inns are the Swag Country Inn in Waynesville (mountains); J. H. Adams Inn in High Point (Piedmont); and the Verandas in Wilmington (coastal).
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 3, Aug 2004,
p132-134, 136, 138-139, il
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