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10278
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Pittard discusses the life of Shelby native Attie Texas Bostick. Born in 1875 into a deeply religious family, she went to China as a missionary in the first half of the 20th-century. There she faced famine, illness, war, and imprisonment by the Japanese.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 4, Sept 2008,
p114-116, 118-120, il, por
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11156
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Pittard describes parks in three of North Carolina's largest cities where residents can find a quiet space amid the hubbub of city life. They are Pullen Park (Raleigh), Freedom Park (Charlotte), and Center City Park (Greensboro).
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Funds to repair and conserve items of historical significance are an ongoing need of museums. The Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough and the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh have taken a unique approach toward solving this problem. The Adopt an Artifact program allows individuals an opportunity to adopt or sponsor an artifact of their choice for conservation. There is no minimum or maximum amount to donate, and the donations are tax-deductible. The Orange County Museum was the first to start the program several years ago, and the state museum followed in 2006. Pittard discusses how the program operates and the items that have been adopted or need to be adopted.
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10167
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Kevin Duffus, author, researcher, and filmmaker, discusses his latest book, The Last Days of Black Beard the Pirate.
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The Carolina Ballet Company, founded in Raleigh in 1997, is now in its tenth year. The company has premiered over sixty ballets. Annual tours are made throughout North Carolina, and the ballet has toured in the People's Republic of China, Hungry, and New York City. The Carolina Ballet is recognized by many critics as one of the top ten ballet companies in the country.
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7390
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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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Born and bred in the Carolinas, the shag has been the official popular dance of North Carolina since the 2005 Session of the General Assembly passed legislation to make it so. Pittard discusses the history of the dance which reportedly has been around since the 1920s. Both North Carolina and South Carolina share the dance and the music it helped bring about. Each state had its own bands, clubs, contests, national shag champions, and disc jockeys who helped spread the dance.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 12, May 2007,
p94-96, 98, 100-101, il, por
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7140
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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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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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Construction of the main building at Peace College began in 1858, with a planned opening for classes in 1861. However, with the outbreak of the Civil War, education was suspended, and the structure served as a Confederate hospital until the end of the war. Union forces then used it for the Freedmen's Bureau until the college took over again.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 3, Aug 2007,
p136-138, 140, 142-143, il
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6692
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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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Public art is art not housed in a museum but found in the everyday environment, like paintings on buildings. The now-defunct Artworks for State Buildings Program was a state-supported program for public art. In 2001, Jeffrey York started Creating Places: A Community Public Art and Design Initiative. The program's objective is to pair community leaders and artists in an effort to develop projects for a specific community, such as the Fish Walk in Morehead City.
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Fred and Dot Wagoner have been in the Christmas tree business since 1939 and have developed a loyal following in Raleigh and Greensboro. Compared with other tree growers their sales are small, with around 2,500 trees a year harvested at their Fraser Knoll Farm in Ashe County.
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Almost two decades ago West Jefferson was a city in decline with empty storefronts and deteriorating buildings. Pittard discusses how the town has begun to revitalize itself, beginning with the transformation of a grave pit into BackStreet Park.
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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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