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George Watts Hill held a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He didn't practice law, preferring to tend to family business in Durham, which included banking, insurance, land, and Watts Hospital. In World War II he became the 23rd employee of the Office of Strategic Services, the OSS, and created gadgets that spies carried on missions into Nazi-occupied territory. The character of “Q†in the James Bond series was based on his spying activities.
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Located in Beaufort County, Bath, incorporated in 1705, is North Carolina's oldest town. In 1704, John Lawson laid out the town, which soon attracted farmers and ranchers to settle there. The surrounding area was a source of tar, turpentine, and other naval stores. La Vere discusses the town's history and the plans for the year-long tricentennial celebration, with opening ceremonies beginning on March 8, 2005.
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Under the soil of North Carolina lies a treasure trove of amazing and ancient fossils. The state's oldest fossil, the pteridinium, dates from 550 million years ago and was found in Stanly County. Fossils are found in the state from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean shoreline. Marine fossils are found east of I-95, with the town of Aurora being a treasure trove for shark teeth and other marine life. Dinosaurs are found only in two areas in the southeastern part of the state.
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Goldsboro, county seat of Wayne County and a former railroad town, is Our State magazine's Tar Heel town of the month.
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7790
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North Carolina's coast remained sparsely populated until the mid-20th-century. The attraction with the coast began with the influx of people during World War II. After hostilities ceased, a building boom began with high-rise hotels, condominium towers, strip malls, and beach houses crowding into environmentally delicate areas. The North Carolina Coastal Federation, organized in 1982, is a nonprofit organization that has a simple mission--protect the coast. La Vere discusses the NCCF's three-pronged strategy for coastal protection and the work of the state's three coastkeepers.
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North Carolina has a good road system, but one 100 years ago, traveling in the state was quite different. Then each county, instead of the state, was in charge of its roads. Most roads were unpaved. Few roads connected people to other counties, and even fewer connected to roads outside the state. To go long distances, either in North Carolina or outside of it, people took the train. La Vere recounts the history of road development in the state during the 20th-century and what changes may occur over the next 50 years.
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Ivey Hayes, age fifty-seven, was born on a farm in Rocky Point in Pender County. By age seven he displayed artistic talent, and by high school he was earning $20 for portraits of neighbors. After college he was drafted into the army in 1971, but later received a medical discharge because of arthritis that would plague him the rest of his life. La Vere discusses how Hayes has dealt with rheumatoid arthritis, how he earned a living before returning to painting, the various phases of his painting, and how he discovered the signature style by which he is known. Hayes has exhibited his work at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., galleries in New York and other major cities, and across North Carolina.
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For over twenty years, Joan Leotta, of Calabash, was a well-known storyteller in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states and was a featured storyteller at the White House, the Kennedy Center, and the Smithsonian Institution. She not only tells stories but performs them as well, becoming individual characters in her award-winning one-woman show, Time Traveler.
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La Vere recounts services rendered by the state's Native American population during World War II. On the Qualla Boundary reservation, every eligible young Cherokee man registered for the draft, and 321 eventually served in the military. Smaller tribes, like the Lumbees, also sent large numbers to the war. A number were killed or wounded, and medals including the Purple Heart, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Silver Star, were awarded. Native American women also served as nurses at home and near the war front, and one served as a WASP, Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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The author explores explanations for Barnwell’s failure and Moore’s success. La Vere partly attributes it to the pine used to construct forts. Of the two, Moore was able to more effectively exploit the use of wood vulnerable to fire. As for Barnwell, insufficient provisions for his troops and fractious relations with Colonial government leaders also contributed to his lack of victory.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 94 Issue 4, October 2017,
p363-390
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Tuscarora Alliance; Town Creek Indian Mound; Mount Gilead--History; Graffenried, Christoph von, Baron, 1661-1743; Algonquian Indians--North Carolina; Pine trees--Long leaf; Moore, Col. James, Jr. 1682-1724; Tuscarora Indian War, 1711-1713--Col. James Moore, Jr. ; Tuscarora Indian War, 1711-1713--Col. John Barnwell; Tuscarora Indians--King Hancock
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Waynesborough, founded in 1787 as the seat of Wayne County, was burned by General Sherman's soldiers in 1865. In the 1980s, the Old Waynesborough Commission decided to recreate the town. Original 18th- and 19th-century buildings were collected around Wayne County and relocated to the old town site. Today more than 15 buildings, including a general store, working blacksmith shop, and one-room school, comprise Waynesborough Historical Village.
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After selling their cucumbers to the big produce markets, farmers in Wayne and Duplin Counties were always left with a number of small, crooked ones that wouldn't sell. In the early 1920s, Lebanese immigrant Shickrey Baddour hit upon the idea to soak them in brine and make pickles. By 1925, his company was packing 6,000 cases of pickles a year. That was the start of the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, which today is the largest independent pickle company in the country. Mt. Olive pickles are number one in the Southeast and the second best-selling pickle in the United States.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 3, Aug 2004,
p110-112, 114, 116-117, il
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The Frisco Native American Museum, located on Hatteras Island at Frisco, is a labor of love for Carl and Joyce Bornfriend. When he was nine years old, Carl began collecting Native American artifacts in his native Pennsylvania. When he moved to the Outer Banks to teach in the early 1980s, he brought with him his collection of 100,000-plus items from many tribes. He has continued collecting, and now displays the artifacts in a small, very cramped museum. His efforts to preserve Native American relics have earned him high praise from Native Americans, and the Lenni Lenape Indians of Pennsylvania adopted him into their tribe.
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Today North Carolinians have modern appliances like gas-packs to heat their homes, electric stoves to cook their food, and refrigerators to cool and preserve food and provide ice. La Vere discusses the times before these conveniences when North Carolinians used coal for heating and cooking and imported ice from New England for cooling. Use of coal started after the Civil War and continued till around 1950. The first ice shipment from the north reached Wilmington in 1817, and shipments continued until 1902. Artificially made ice made importing it impractical.
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This article examines the legends that surround the Lost Colony of Roanoke, especially the carved stone found by a tourist near Edenton in 1937 which purportedly was carved in an Elizabethan style. The article discusses whether the stone is a fake or a message from the Lost Colony survivors.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 86 Issue 3, July 2009,
p250-281 , il, por, map, f
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