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8790
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Asheville Potter Karen Newgard transforms clay into elegant porcelain cups, bowls, pitchers, and platters. Newgard graduated from Louisiana State University with an art degree. Milling discusses technique and creations.
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Milling discusses the artwork of Jeff Pittman, who lives in Fletcher in Henderson County. He grew up exposed to art. His father, Bob Pittman, is a highly regarded painter who lives in Greenville, and his mother Claire Pittman is a poet and history professor at East Carolina University. Besides his landscape paintings, Pittman has carved out a popular niche as a painter of city skylines and has painted skylines of Chicago, New York, Nashville, Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington. Presently, he is concentrating his work on the state's mountains and the skyline and street scenes of downtown Asheville.
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Ramona Lossie is a sixth-generation Cherokee basket weaver, and her daughters are seventh-generation weavers. She learned the art of weaving from her mother and grandmother. Creating a basket can take as long as four months; this includes collecting the material and preparing it. Her baskets sell for up to $2,000, depending on the size and complexity, and increase in value through the years.
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9597
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Owen Theatre, a Classical-Revival style brick building on Mars Hills College campus, began life as the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in the 1880s. Today it is on the National Register of Historic Places and is home to the Southern Appalachian repertory Theatre. Milling discusses the transformation from church to theatre.
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William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil, Jr. and Diana Cecil Pickering, great-grandchildren of George Vanderbilt, the builder of Biltmore House and Estate, discuss growing up there and later becoming part of the family business that runs it.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 6, Nov 2007,
p72-74, 76, 78-79, il, por
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9613
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Grandfather Mountain, the highest peak in the Blue Ridge chain, has been in the Morton family for five generations. Milling discusses the family's stewardship of the mountain, which recently passed to Hugh M. Morton's grandson, Hugh M. Morton, III.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 6, Nov 2007,
p138-140, 142, 144-145, il, por
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Built in 1923, the Dan'l Boone Inn restaurant was originally the home of Dr. Bingham, the town physician. Milling describes the restaurant and its offerings, which are served family style, and include such Southern classics as fried chicken and mashed potatoes.
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22397
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Roy Williams, coach of the University of North Carolina's basketball team, reminisces about his roots in Western North Carolina and as coach at North Carolina and Kansas.
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In John Payne's studio in the Asheville River District, art, metal and skill combine to bring life-size dinosaurs and prehistoric birds to life. The sculptures are supported and moved by pulleys and cables much like a marionette would be. His collection has about fourteen animals at the moment. Museums lease his skeletons and put them on three month displays. This exhibit \"Natural History Machines\" has appeared in museums all over the nation.
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23635
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Author Jan Karon, of the 'Mitford' novel series, helped to bring Blowing Rock into the national spotlight with her tales based in a fictional town on the popular travel attraction.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 1 Issue 5, November/December 2007,
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23637
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Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, discusses his childhood and what led him to follow his father's footsteps to the pulpit.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 1 Issue 5, November/December 2007,
p86-95, il, por
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7612
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Bakers start working at 3 A.M., and the bakers at Whitman's Bakery in Waynesville have been making pastries, breads and cookies for the last sixty years. The bakery opened in 1945 and still remains in its original location at 18 North Main Street. Now operated by a fourth-generation of the Whitman family, the bakery continues its legacy of fresh baked goods served with a personal touch.
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Don Stevenson of Morganton builds birdhouses and feeders in his Fourth Creek Folk Art Studio. What sets his work apart from other birdhouse builders is the fact that his birdhouses are hand-sculpted, scaled reproductions of old buildings, barns, mountain cabins, and churches. His work draws raves from collectors, art critics, and book authors. His projects have included replicas of Paula Steichen Sandburg's goat barn in Henderson County and Payne's Chapel Methodist Church in Buncombe County.
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The Appalachian Archives at Mars Hill College contains a wide range of genealogical treasures. The majority of the collection focuses on families in western North Carolina. Other items include census records; a scrapbook on famed folk musician Bascom Lamar Lunsford; an extremely rare 1890s publication of the complete collection of the War of the Rebellion; and North Carolina newspapers on microfilm. The collection is expanding digitally to make the material accessible in the library or from home.
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Milling discusses the work and creations of Debbie Littledeer, a graduate of Mars Hill College, who creates silkscreens that feature Appalachian scenes--Blue Ridge Mountains, wildlife, trees, and flowers. Littledeer uses up to eighteen different colors in her limited edition prints, but blue and lavender are preferred. Milling describes the process for making a silkscreen.
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