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The Robersonville Primitive Baptist Church, built in 1910, closed its doors seventy years later. In the 1990s, Everette James, a retired physician and medical school professor, purchased and restored it. The former place of worship now houses St. James Place Museum. Visitors can view a collection of Southern folk art, 400 pieces of North Carolina pottery, quilts from every county, and a sizeable collection of African American quilts.
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Chicken Bridge, near Pittsboro in Chatham County, had a long-standing tradition of lighting pumpkins on Halloween. In 1987, a local newspaper reported that around 500 people had come to the wooden bridge to enjoy the lit pumpkins. Within a few years, the state demolished the bridge and built a new two-lane concrete one. The increased traffic made it too dangerous to continue the pumpkin-lighting tradition. Not willing to give up their Halloween tradition, the citizens moved down to an old bridge near Bynum that the state was planning to demolish. People in Chatham County prevailed on the state to save the bridge on condition that no cars would ever use it again. Martin describes a typical pumpkin lighting.
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Jan Burger and Donovan Zimmerman are the creators of Paperhand Puppet Intervention. The puppets, some of which are over twenty feet tall, are constructed of paper-mache. The larger puppets require stronger materials to hold them together. Whenever possible, the builders use recycled materials. Burger and Zimmerman have been working together about seven years. The puppets are constructed and stored in an old textile mill in Saxapahaw. The puppets perform at a number of venues, including schools, festivals, and parades.
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X-rays were first observed in Germany on November 8, 1895, by Conrad Roentgen. On February 27, 1896, the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER published an X-ray photograph of a hand, taken earlier in 1896, by Dr. Henry Louis Smith and three medical students at Davidson College. Dartmouth College was also making X-rays and disputed Davidson's claims to being the first to do it in the United States. Martin discusses the conflicting claims.
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Jan Karon brought to life the imaginary mountain town of Mitford in nine novels. The town is based on Blowing Rock, where Karon lived while she wrote most of the books. The story lines follow the central character, Father Tim Kavanagh, an Episcopalian priest who ministers to his mountain parish. Martin describes Karon's struggles to write the first book and how it found a place with a New York publisher. Although the Mitford series is complete, Karon will continue the Father Tim character through three more novels in new locales.
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Albert Coats founded the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1931. The Institute, now the School of Government, is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2006. The school serves local and state government officials across the state. Attendance at the school's programs is around 14,000 annually. Besides handling classes and conferences, the school's staff of over one hundred responds to over 100,000 requests for assistance each year and publishes over one hundred books, articles, journals, and bulletins annually.
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There are two major threats to native plants in North Carolina. One is the habitat disruption that comes from construction and development. The second is nonnative plants, like kudzu and English ivy, which can dominate the habitats of the native species. Martin discusses the North Carolina Native Plant Society's work in protecting native plant species.
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At age 102, Wayland Baum is thought to be the oldest living former employee of the U.S. Lighthouse Service. His father, Thomas Hardy Baum, was an assistant lighthouse keeper at stations on the Outer Banks. Wayland was born August 16, 1904. Baum recounts his days as a substitute lighthouse keeper and time spent on a boat that delivered supplies to the lighthouses. He later had a career in commercial and charter boat fishing and guiding waterfowl hunters. Baum retired at 85 and maintains his own home, washing the windows and painting the house when it needs it.
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Martin discusses the work of Chapel Hill artist Elaine O'Neil, who combines patches of fabric to create textile collages of vibrant colors.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 2, July 2007,
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Hillsborough, county seat of Orange County, is Our State magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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Lenoir, county seat of Caldwell County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 10, Mar 2008,
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Lincolnton, county seat of Lincoln County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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