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5911
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The L. Vincent Lowe, Jr. Business Award is the highest preservation award given to a state business for promoting protection of architectural resources in North Carolina. Murray Gould and Gould & Associates received the award for 2002 for successfully rehabilitating and adapting historical buildings for new uses.
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The Stedman Incentive Grant assists non-profit organizations in an effort to save endangered architecturally and historically significant property. Kadesh A.M.E. Zion Church in Edenton received the 2002 award. Built in 1897, the church is \"one of the oldest buildings of African American heritage still standing in North Carolina.\" The grant will be used to defray expenses \"for termite control and treatment and to underwrite additional fundraising initiatives.\"
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The Robert E. Stipe Professional Award is given to working professionals demonstrating outstanding commitment to historic preservation as part of their jobs. Dr. M. Ruth Little of Raleigh, one of the state's premier architectural historians for three decades, is this year's award winner.
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Three decades of study by federal and state agencies over whether to build jetties at Oregon Inlet has concluded with a decision not to do so. The article discusses what groups were involved, what was considered in this studies, and why the consensus was reached.
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The article discusses the design and operation of swine waste lagoons and the use of waste as an agricultural fertilizer. The role of the North Carolina Division of Water Quality is also discussed.
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5980
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Tourism in North Carolina is a $12 billion industry, with shopping, beaches, and historical places among the most favored activities by tourists. Heritage tourism, or visiting an area for cultural enrichment, continues to be a significant niche market. Among the new developments in the heritage area are a Civil War trails program, modeled after the one in Virginia, and a trail system of agricultural/cultural tourism sites.
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In 1997, the Horne Creek Living Historical Farm in Surry County created the Southern Heritage Apple Orchard to preserve the varieties of the fruit which are rapidly disappearing. Today 650 trees are growing to maturity. The orchard is the only state-supported one in the country dedicated to preserving the old varieties of apples.
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Thornton W. Mitchell, North Carolina state archivist from 1973 to 1981, died May 24, 2003. Mitchell was instrumental in the formation of organizations such as the North Carolina Genealogical Society in 1974; the recipient of many awards, including the Christopher Crittenden Award in 1981; and the author of books, including North Carolina Wills: A Testator Index, 1665-1990.
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6000
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Wilmington architect Charles H. Boney, Sr., received the 2003 F. Carter Williams Gold Medal from the North Carolina Chapter of AIA. The award recognizes a distinguished career of extraordinary achievements as an architect.
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Dixon Weinstein Architects PA, of Chapel Hill, received the 2003 AIA North Carolina Chapter Firm Award. The award is given to the firm producing quality architecture and having a high level of customer satisfaction for a ten-year period. The firm was founded in 1982 and has completed homes, schools, churches, dormitories, and other structures from Harkers Island to Waynesville.
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James W. Mason, a Chapel Hill architect, posthumously received the 2003 William Henly Deitrick AIA North Carolina Medal Award for Service. The annual award is given for community and professional leadership and is the highest honor presented by AIA North Carolina.
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The 1988 Ruth Coltrane Cannon Award, North Carolina's most prestigious preservation award, was presented to James Allen Dunn Jr., of Salisbury, for \"the high level and quality of his service through his profession, his elective positions, and local and statewide organizations.\" Dunn, a senior planner for the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, is a long-time leader in preservation in Salisbury and Rowan County.
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The Stedman Incentive Grant assists non-profit organizations in an effort to save endangered architecturally and historically significant property. The Old Baldy Foundation, formed in 1985 to save the deteriorating 1817 Bald Head Island Lighthouse, is the 1988 recipient. The grant not only helps with the financial need of the project, but also recognizes \"their monumental effort to rescue this endangered vestige of maritime history.\"
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The Minnette C. Duffy Landscape Award is the state's highest award for preservation, restoration, or maintenance of grounds related to historic structures. Paul F. \"Chip\" Calloway, of Greensboro, is the 1988 recipient. Calloway's preservation expertise, knowledge and love of landscape architecture may be seen at sites including Hillsborough's Ayr Mount, an 1815 Federal-style brick house and in the 1795 Edwards-Franklin house in Surry County.
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To mark their 50th anniversary in 1989, North Carolina Preservation commissioned architectural historian Catherine W. Bishir of Raleigh and architectural photographer Tim Buchman of Charlotte to collaborate on a new architectural history of North Carolina. Bishir discusses the creation of the book in this PRESERVATION interview.
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