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North Carolina has a rich history in minerals and gems. Spruce Pine in Mitchell County is one of the leading sources of gemstones in the country. The mines produce mica, which is used in paints and plastics; quartz, which is used in automotive lamps and streetlights; and feldspar, which is used in ceramics and glass. One hundred percent of the world's computer-grade, ultra-pure quartz comes from these mines. Without this source, the high-speed conductivity of the twenty-first century would “be stuck as a slug in the mud, and the world would plunge into technological catastrophe.”
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 9, Feb 2007, p88-90, 92, il Periodical Website
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The Grove Arcade in Asheville, completed in 1929, is the biggest commercial building in western North Carolina and fills an entire city block. Developed by Edwin Wiley Grove, the Grove Arcade is an architectural treasure and is included in the National Register of Historic Places. During World War II, the Federal Government took over the building and evicted all the tenants. Later, it was boarded up and used to house government documents. Through the efforts of the Grove Arcade Public Market Foundation, the Grove Arcade underwent historical renovations, reopening in 2002. Currently about fifty diverse businesses operate there.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 5, Oct 2006, p178-180, 182, 184, il Periodical Website
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Hickory resident Sylvia Payne, a professional storyteller and board member of the North Carolina Storytelling Guild, has been telling stories over thirty years. Payne travels the southeastern United States, presenting workshops and telling her stories at festivals, schools, colleges, and libraries. She is always collecting new material to add to her repertoire, which includes family and personal stories, historic legends, ghost stories, and folktales from other cultures.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 6, Nov 2006, p108-109, il, por Periodical Website
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Fred Hughes began publication of The SENTINEL newspaper in Marshall in 1999. He soon purchased his competitor, the NEWS-RECORD, which had been published in Madison County for one hundred years, and combined the two papers into a weekly publication called the NEWS-RECORD & SENTINEL. Before he retired, Hughes, a railroad buff, moved his newspaper enterprise into two boxcars. The boxcars are appropriate also because Marshall's history is intimately connected to the railroad. The newspaper is thought to be the only newspaper in the world that is produced inside boxcars.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 7, Dec 2006, p170-172, 174, il Periodical Website
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W. R. Edmonds's small pamphlet \"The North Carolina State Flag,\" published in 1911, is the most authoritative resource available on the state's flag. Edmonds was a member of the North Carolina Historical Commission when he wrote the pamphlet, which is about three and a half pages in length, followed by four pages of footnotes. Kerr discusses some of the interesting facts from the text.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 9, Feb 2005, p112-114, il Periodical Website
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Army nurse Mildred Clark of Bladen County was stationed at the U.S. Army Hospital at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. During the war she held a number of administrative positions stateside. When the Korean War broke out, Clark was Chief Nurse of the Far East Command. Following that war, she again held a number of high-level administrative positions. When she retired with the rank of colonel in 1967, she was Chief of the Army Nurse Corps. Among her awards is the Distinguished Service Medal. She died in 1994 at the age of seventy-nine and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1999, the Clark Health Clinic at Fort Bragg was dedicated to her memory. It is the first building at the fort to be named in honor of a woman.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005, p98, 100, por Periodical Website
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The National Gingerbread House Competition at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville is in its twelfth year. The annual competition is featured on ABC's Good Morning America program. The competition, which began in 1993 with a dozen entries, now has over two hundred contestants competing from all over the United States. Kerr discusses the building of the houses and the judging.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 7, Dec 2005, p82-84, 86, il Periodical Website
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Southerners can't live without them. Northerners wonder “What is that disgusting stuff?” It's grits, a dish ingrained in North Carolina's culinary heritage. Kerr discusses the appeal of this delicacy and two mills still producing it, the Dellinger Grist Mill, built in 1867 in Hawk, and The Old Mill of Guilford, established in 1767 in Oak Ridge. Both mills are on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 1, June 2004, p152-154, il Periodical Website
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At the corner of East Sprague and Peachtree streets in Winston-Salem stands a bright yellow gas station in the shape of a clamshell. Built in the 1930s, this former Shell Oil Company service station has recently been restored by Preservation North Carolina for use as a satellite office. Kerr describes the preservation process.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 12, May 2003, p136-137, il Periodical Website
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The New River, which flows about 100 miles through western North Carolina, is at 300 million years, second only to the Nile River in age. A dam threatened the river with extinction in 1965, but legal and legislative action over a ten-year period saved it. In 1975, the North Carolina General Assembly declared 26.5 miles a State Scenic River. In 1976, the federal government declared the same stretch part of the National Wetland and Scenic River System.
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Southern Pines, located in Moore County, is a popular resort area, especially with golfers. Kerr discusses how to spend a perfect weekend there, enjoying a number of things literary, culinary, and historical.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 71 Issue 4, Sept 2003, p144-148, il Periodical Website
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