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The Benjamin Hedrick-Horace Williams House in Chapel Hill is in its final restoration phase. The Chapel Hill Preservation Society named it in honor of its two most controversial owners. The University of North Carolina dismissed Professor Benjamin Hedrick for his abolitionist views in 1856. He was the only person ever fired from the university for his political beliefs. Professor Horace Williams, who committed so many heresies that nearly every preacher in the state attacked him, once declared that Hitler would win World War II.
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The American Dance Festival had been held at Connecticut College until 1978 when it was moved to Duke University's Page Auditorium. The festival includes six weeks of public performances, but also hosts workshops and a school. Dancers of college and post-college age will see if they can become a part of the professional dance environment. This year's festival will be held between June 17 and July 28.
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The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have merged, creating a portrait collection of nearly 100 men from Southern and national history since the nation's founding. The portraits are housed in the Di-Phi Senate Chamber and free daily tours are given. The Morehead Foundation and the X. Smith Reynolds Foundation are combining efforts to restore the portraits during this bicentennial year.
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The National Humanities Center, located in the Research Triangle Park, opened in 1978/1979 and from that point to 1986 has fostered the work of 300 Fellows. Among those 300 scholars there have been 80 historians, 38 specializing in United States history and 43 in international history. Their work has led to an impressive list of publishing credentials including more than thirty-four volumes on histories of the South, African Americans, and women.
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North Carolina's industrial and engineering history is an important part of the state's heritage. Schumann describes a new program designed by the North Carolina State Archives and History Department that will identify and preserve vintage industrial sites.
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11769
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In Part One of this series, Schumann discussed a new program designed by the North Carolina State Archives and History Department that will identify and preserve vintage industrial sites and covered several early industries. In this concluding part, Schumann covers other manufacturing enterprises, power resources, and transportation.
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Moses Ashley Curtis of Hillsborough was regarded as the American authority on fungi in the 1850s. He developed international friendships, one with Reverend Miles Joseph Berkeley in England, with whom he wrote five scholarly papers. Curtis's most important work, however, was his forty-year study of plant life in North Carolina. His SHRUBS AND WOODY VINES OF NORTH CAROLINA was first published in 1860. This list of 4800 North Carolina plants was the largest North American regional list.
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Carolista Baum participated in a citizens’ drive to save Jockey Ridge and Chicamacomico Coast Guard Station. She played a pivotal role in the North Carolina Nature Conservancy and logged volunteer hours for projects such as Chapel Hill preservation. She acted as publisher for Brandon Press and Carolista Designers, producer of historical and educational coloring books. From such endeavors, Baum may be regarded as a woman worthy of remembrance.
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Lake Julian near Asheville is a man-made lake created for the Skyland steam electric generating plant. Because of the resultant high water temperature, 6,000 tilapia fish, who are accustomed to warmth, were released into the lake on an experimental basis. Female tilapia brood their eggs in their mouth while their male mate digs a nest. Each then take turns guarding the nest from other fish, such as largemouth bass, which also thrive in the lake. Thus far, the warmed water has not proven a problem for the tilapia, although several fish kills have been observed both in the summer and in the winter.
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The Eno is a small but unusually clean free-flowing recreation river in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. It has inspired many locals to work for its preservation and protection from pollution. This article highlights the importance of the river to the area.
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Schumann describes the Horton Grove Quarters which stand on Stagville Plantation, a state-owned preservation teaching center north of Durham. The houses were built for plantation slaves. Only four structures remain after 125 years, and these are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They were selected for this designation because they are among the few remaining slaves houses in North Carolina and because of the workmanship of the slaves who built them.
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Chicamacomico Coast Guard Station in Dare County was open for seventy years and closed in 1954. Throughout its time in operation, it rescued sailors from several ships caught in storms. Recently, the Chicamacomico Historical Association began raising funds to begin restoration on the station and convert it into a museum.
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Thanks to Joffre Lanning Coe, an archaeology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Town Creek Indian Mount was reconstructed. The site is the state's only prehistoric National Historic Landmark, and looks today as it did 500 years ago when inhabited by Creek Indians. First acquainted with the mound in 1936, Coe has spent much of his life researching and overseeing the restoration of the area. The landmark is now open to the public.
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The National Humanities Center founded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is housed in a white building in Research Triangle Park. The buildling is the first of the Triangle University Center for Advanced Sciences, Inc., and 28 fellows from around the world work there conducting research in the humanities.\r\n
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Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina is virtually untouched. Home of an impressive collection of the oak-chestnut trees, a virtually extinct species today, Joyce Kilmer Forest is truly a sight to behold. Deer, bear, fox, and bobcat live there, and the Civilian Conservation Corps laid countless forest trails through the woods for visitors.
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