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Mrs. Rose O'Neal Greenhow used her high-society connections in Washington, D.C., to gather information of value to the South during the Civil War. Imprisoned by the North, then later deported to Richmond, she went to Europe in 1862 to try to win support for the Southern cause. On her return in 1864, her ship, trying to evade a ship mistaken for a Union gunboat, ran aground off Wilmington. Greenhow drowned attempting to reach shore.
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Among the people of Chatham County he was known as “Ike,” a self-made man, loyal to his neighbors and his community. To the world he was known as Captain Isaac Edward Emerson, the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer, founder of the Emerson Drug Company, builder of the Emerson Hotel, veteran of the Spanish-American War, noted yachtsman, fancier of automobiles, lavish entertainer, and philanthropist.
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Pittard recounts the history of Ridgeway which once proclaimed itself the \"Cantaloupe Capital of the World.\" In the early 1900s, German immigrants, after having failed at raising small fruits, such as dewberries and strawberries, turned to cantaloupes and found them perfect for the soil. In the early 1940s, 100 railcars of cantaloupes were shipped in season, and production often exceeded 80,000 crates. However, blight attacked the fields after World War II. Though the disease was brought under control, production never again reached pre-war levels.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 2, July 2004, p146-148, il Periodical Website
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6760
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The old Weldon Daeke store, located in Ridgeway in Warren County, has come back to life as the Ridgeway Opry House. It is also home to the Germantown Strings, a dulcimer band. Pittard discusses each musician in the six-member band and the style of music they perform, which includes old-time gospel, country, bluegrass, and mountain music.
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Tuberculosis had been a serious health problem in North Carolina from colonial times until the mid-20th-century. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, trailers belonging to the Tuberculosis Control section of the North Carolina State Board of Health traveled the state offering chest X-rays to the general public. There was no charge for the service, which, by 1964, had taken X-ray pictures of around 500,000 people. Pittard discusses this preventative care program that helped to nearly eradicate tuberculosis in the state.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 5, Oct 2004, p24-25, 27, il Periodical Website
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Before America declared for independence, a group of Piedmont farmers challenged the royal government which was led by Governor William Tryon. The group was not seeking independence from England but reform of existing local governments. Among the complaints against local governments were excessive taxes, illegal fees, corrupt officials, and appointment by the Crown of local officials. Pittard discusses the Regulator Revolt, which culminated in a battle on May 14, 1771, on Alamance Creek between Royal forces and the Regulators and the subsequent hanging of six of the Regulators.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005, p68-70, 72-73, il Periodical Website
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Although many of the stores are closed on Scotland Neck's Main Street, Luigi's, a restaurant featuring Italian fare with a Southern accent, has found a niche there. Luigi's, which opened in 2001, occupies an 1882 building that once housed a department store. Pittard discusses the owners and the menu offerings.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 10, Mar 2005, p163-164, il Periodical Website
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Television stations are busy workplaces. WRAL-TV5 in Raleigh is no exception. In 1958, the station's founder, A.J. Fletcher (1887-1979), started a three-quarter acre garden. Today the garden features seventy varieties of flowering and non-flowering plants, including ten hybrid azalea groups. Pittard discusses how this garden developed through the years and some of the ways it is used.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 11, Apr 2005, p144-148, il Periodical Website
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In 1837, Mike Harmon's great-great-grandfather James Cash Goodwin left England to seek his fortune in America as a weaver. His ship sank in the North Sea, but a passing ship pulled him and a trunk full of his family's weaving patterns from the icy waters. Today, Harmon, a sixth generation weaver, along with his wife Dena and family, continues a weaving tradition of over two centuries. The Buffalo Creek Weavers in Ashe County weave bedspreads on a century-old loom. The rare colonial patterns on the spreads date back to the early 1700s.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 12, May 2005, p190-192, 194-195, il Periodical Website
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In 1895 and 1896, retired Boston merchant James W. Tufts bought Moore County land to develop the Sandhills Village of Pinehurst. He did not intend it for golf, but rather as a warm climate resort for retirees and for those in ill health. He added a golf course when his Northern guests began arriving with their golf clubs and looking for a course to play. Master golf architect Donald Ross designed the course, and Pinehurst began its rise to one of the top golfing destinations in the world. Pittard discusses Pinehurst's early history and memorable golfing moments.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 1, June 2005, p136-138, 140-142, il, por Periodical Website
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Dr. George Pilkington built the first drugstore in Pittsboro in 1916. The store passed through several owners. A local family gutted and modernized the space for a furniture store in the 1960s. Pittsboro resident Gene Oldham bought as much of the surplus drugstore material as he could. In 1996, he purchased the building which housed Dr. Pilkington's store and, with the help of friends, set about recreating the look and feel of the early drugstores, using his purchases and parts scavenged from other defunct drugstores. The store's name, S&T's Soda Shoppe, comes from the initials of his sons' names, Steve and T. J.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 2, July 2005, p172-175, il Periodical Website
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After World War II, vacationers flocked to the state's beaches. A large part of the credit goes to Bill Sharpe (1903-1970), former publisher of The State magazine, and photographer John H. Hemmer (1892-1981), who promoted travel and tourism in North Carolina. Pittard takes a nostalgic look at beaches the way they were in the post-World War II period.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 3, Aug 2005, p36-38, 40, il Periodical Website
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Pittard reports on unexplained happenings in North Carolina's 165-year-old Capitol building in Raleigh. Workers up on scaffolds in the building have been tapped on the shoulder. Ghostly voices have been captured on tape at 20,000 hertz, well above the normal hearing range of human beings. Visitors feel cold spots. Photographers using infrared film capture images and shapes unseen by the naked eye. Investigators continue to study and analyze the reported occurrences, but to date, the building continues to keep it secrets.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 5, Oct 2005, p132-134, 136, 138, il Periodical Website
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A shipment of 1,000 books, sent from London to St. Thomas Parish in Bath in 1701, by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, gave Bath County the first lending library in the colonies. This predates Benjamin Franklin's brainchild by thirty years. Only one book remains, Gabriel Towerson's 'An Explication to the Catechism of the Church of England.'
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Witherspoon Rose Culture in Durham specializes in installing and maintaining rose gardens across North Carolina. The business was founded in 1951 by R. K. Witherspoon, starting with one truck and forty plants. Today, the company tends 2,200 gardens in the state, containing approximately 70,000 plants. The company ships around 200 selected varieties of roses nationwide and sells potted roses at the garden shop in Durham.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 9, Feb 2006, p68-70, 72, il Periodical Website
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