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Peter Geiger, a unique artist, moved to Cary in 1997. What makes his work unique is that he recycles old license plates, using them to build custom guitars that he sells to celebrities and the public. He makes about two a week.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 8, Jan 2013, p19-21, il, por Periodical Website
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21820
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Once a month a pawnshop, the Main Street Music & Loan, morphs into a radio station in North Wilkesboro, broadcasting from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. in front of a live audience. The program is a throwback to the old radio days when bluegrass and country music bands played and the DJ did everything else. The show has been carried on WKBC--AM since 1999.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 6, Nov 2013, p24, 26-27, il Periodical Website
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17995
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The Brady C. Jefcoat Museum of Americana is located in Murfreesboro. Jefcoat, now 96, has collected over 13,000 items which are housed in a former three-story school building. The items include an 1890 music box, pencil sharpeners, a courtship couch used on the set of Gone With the Wind, shaving mugs, and butter churns from the 1910s. When he was looking for a repository the Smithsonian made an offer, but he selected the Murfreesboro Historical Association because they agreed to display the whole collection.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 6, Nov 2012, p19-20, 22, il Periodical Website
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25487
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Kevin Williamson, class of 1987, known as the creator Dawsons Creek, is also dominating the scary movie genre and creating more intensely popular TV series.
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38272
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Resurrecting pre-World War II hillbilly music is Old Hat Records owner Marshall Wyatt. Represented in his collections are bands who found fame during hillbilly’s popularity peak. Other projects by Wyatt keeping interest in this musical genre alive are CD box set collections produced by Old Hat Records such as Music from the Lost Provinces: Old Time Stringbands from Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity, 1927-1931 (1997) and Good for What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937 (2005).
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38279
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Brady C. Jefcoat’s Museum of Americana has items representing American culture from the distant and more recent past. Opened in 1997, it contains the half of Jefcoat’s collection that was not auctioned off and is especially known for its 264 vintage record players and the country's largest collection of butter churns and irons. Despite the Smithsonian being receptive to his request to donate his immense collection, he chose Murfreesboro because the town was willing to display the entirety of his 13,000 treasures.
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25451
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A 1983 graduate of ECU, Mark Kemp hit a high note in the area of music journalism, getting intimate with musicians such as David Bowie and Eric Clapton. After decades with MTV, VH1, and Rolling Stone, Kemp returned to roots in Charlotte where he writes about musical and cultural history.
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