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The Fearrington House Restaurant is a fine dinning restaurant located in Pittsboro. Previously the center of a dairy farm, the property was purchased by Jenny Fitch and husband R.B., a Chapel Hill developer forty years ago. A noted culinary expert, Edna Lewis was brought in as the establishment's first chef. "The Fearrington House Cookbook" has been a staple Christmas gift choice for the past thirty five years.
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"Jun is an ancient beverage shrouded in mystery. Made by fermenting honey and tea, its origin is uncertain. But today, a group of women near Asheville are writing their own chapter in its history." Shanti Volpe, owner of Shanti Elixirs began selling jun in farmers markets in 2017.
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"A children's author and her family transformed a former livery stable in Buncombe County into a literary haven that expands the imaginations of new bookworms." Cole and Susanne Blumer are the proprietors of Sasafras on Sutton, a bookstore in Black Mountain.
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44016
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Known at the "High Priestess of Soul", Simone, originally from Tryon graduated from the Allen School for Girls in Asheville. She enjoyed a prolific career as a celebrated jazz musician and civil rights activist. In 2017, her childhood home in Tryon was purchased by a group of New York Black artists for restoration.
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"In the early 19th century, fortune seekers headed to Rowan County to strike it rich. While the mines are now closed, locals still celebrate their community's history." Gold Hill was once home to two of the most profitable gold mines in the southeastern U.S. By the early 20th century, the area's 24 mines had ceased operations. Gold Hill Founders Day festival in September is Gold Hill's largest annual event.
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"In the Foothills, livermush sustained families when times were tough. now locals pay tribute to the dish -- lovingly nicknamed Piedmont pate -- at an all-day event." Mack's Liver Mush and Meats held the first livermush festival in Shelby in 1985. German settling in Cleveland County in the 19th-century developed this cultivated blend of pork, cornmeal and seasonings as part of the local food custom.
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"Come November, folks gather in Harnett County to learn about a crop and a way of life that shaped this land and the people who toiled over it." On the first Saturday of November, the city of Dunn will close off eleven downtown blocks to accommodate the 10,000 visitors coming to experience the NC Cotton Festival.
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44137
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This article is about dark skies and stargazing. A group of stargazers known as the Crystal Coast stargazers gather in celebration of Cape Lookout National Seashore’s International Dark Sky Park certificate. The author also addresses how people used the stars as navigational tools and interviews a few people about their experiences and how they came to Dark-Sky certify Cape Lookout.
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44252
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Located about 2,400 feet beneath Humpback Mountain in McDowell County, Linville Caverns were discovered by two fishermen in 1822 trying to figure out how trout were swimming into solid rock. During the Civil War, the caverns provided refuge for deserting Confederate and Union solders. In 1884, Thomas Edison sent an expedition to locate platinum but never located any.
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Retiring after 30 years spent as an accountant at NC State, Bill Bunn planted 50 pecan trees on his childhood farm in 1981. In 1994, he and Dr. Mike Parker, a fruit and nut tree specialist founded the North Carolina Pecan Growers Association in 1994. Bunn died in 2011 without accomplishing his desire to fill his whole farm with pecan trees. His son-in-law Ben Byrd has since taken over of what is now Lakeview Pecans in Bailey, N.C
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