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15751
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Seay describes the peach industry in the Sandhills. Twenty-five years ago land was hardly worth anything there, but growing peaches has changed all that. J. Van Lindley of Greensboro is credited with having planted the first commercial orchard there in 1892, but it has been only in the last decade that the industry has developed. Over two hundred varieties of peaches grow in the country. The Elberta, Georgia Belle, and the Hilly are the most widely-grown varieties in the Sandhills.
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15860
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Seay recounts some of the forgotten events that are revealed by the old files of some of the state's early railroad companies of one hundred years or more ago. The information shows quite a bit of contrast between railroading then and now.
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15927
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Dr. Joseph Halstead, better known as \"Dom Placid,\" is North Carolina's poet laureate, although he was born in Brooklyn, New York. He came to the state in 1921 as teacher of English and Greek at Belmont Abbey College. His writing is not limited only to poetry; he has written plays, book reviews for the Charlotte Observer, and has a radio show called \"Poetry Corner.\" The duties of a poet laureate are to extol the virtues of his state in poetic form and encourage the writing of poetry.
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15978
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Many people recognize the name of Sidney Lanier, the famous Georgia poet who was born in 1842. Fewer people know, however, that he died in 1881, at Lynn, near Tryon in Polk County, where he had moved seeking relief from the tuberculosis he had contracted while being held in a Federal prison during the Civil War.
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20789
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Seay describes what railroading was like in North Carolina almost a century ago.
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