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22088
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Steven Miller, a carpenter and crafter of musical instruments, makes fiddles--unusual, century old-fiddles. Cigar-box fiddles have been around for a long time. Miller takes them and transforms them into fiddles he calls Carolina Fiddles. It takes forty hours to make one by hand, and he charges $750 per fiddle. He hardly makes any money off the fiddles, but as he says, \"I just do it because I really like them. I enjoy making musical instruments.\"
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Old-time music played on fiddles, banjos, mandolins, and dulcimers has for decades attracted North Carolinians to festivals. Tomlin describes perhaps the oldest festival that was held in the Iredell County township of Union Grove in 1924. It now hosts two a year. A younger festival is the Bluegrass and Old-Time Fiddlers Convention held in Mt. Airy since 1972.
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22090
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Tomlin seeks an answer to the question--\"Is there a difference between the fiddle and the violin?\" He consults Jamie Laval, of Tryon, the 2002 US National Scottish Fiddle Champion for an answer.
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Tomlin recounts the history of the June German, which was held in a large tobacco warehouse in Rocky Mount. It was a yearly dance that began in 1880 to celebrate the harvest of the tobacco crop and attracted thousands of dancers along with many spectators. By the 1950s they had disappeared from the Eastern North Carolina social scene. Although African Americans and whites held separate dances, it was a highlight of both their social seasons and it brought in big bands like the Dorseys and Count Basie, the national press, and prominent people nationwide, like movie stars.
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27407
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Duke University Chapel’s carillon, a set of 50 bells, has been in use for over 80 years. They have a rather interesting history, and were in fact received as a gift in 1930, a bit after the bell tower was built. The bells are now a cherished part of the university, and shall be for many years to come.
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27409
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Eva Clark, a retired home economics teacher, has been making Santa suits for Cliff Snider, the the Santa for High Point’s Christmas Parade, since the mid-1990s. She has made him a large variety of suits, including a patriotic one after 9-11. Clark will be retiring from making the suits soon however, as she is getting along in years.
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28674
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In 1960 Lenoir-Rhyne College won the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship for football. The story of that team and the lasting friendship football created for teammates Richard Kemp and Marion Kirby is told.
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28683
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In Gaston County, Chase and Alice White are trying to bring a tiny community back to life. Spencer Mountain, NC has only two residents and the Whites are trying to clean up the town. The history of the town and its future are detailed.
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28698
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North Carolina A&T has a marching band unlike most. The tradition of the marching band at the university goes back generations often with members of the same family all participating in the band. The history, tradition, and family ties to the marching band are detailed.
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37641
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The perceived peaceful presence loomed large in St. Jude of Hope, Little Chapel of God’s Love, and an unnamed chapel that seats four. The authored trusted in finding the divine in Trust, Gibsonville, and near Trinity. Chapels the author noted were sometimes sought, other times found, were named after the patron saint of lost causes; erected from wood part of a Lutheran church built in 1745; and once a smokehouse.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 10, March 2015,
p166-168, 170-172, 174
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38249
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Credited as the first woman to produce aerial shots, Bayard Wootten also produced innovative work in her pictures of blacks, rural areas, and people from lower classes. Reproductions of over 130 of her photographs are contained in Jerry Cotten’s biography Light and Air. More proof that the memory of her contributions has receded, but not vanished, is on display at University of North Carolina’s Wilson Library, Pack Memorial Library, and Western Carolina University’s Penland School of Crafts collection.
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Wootten, Mary Bayard Morgan, 1875-1959; New Bern--People; New Bern--History; Photography--History; Photography; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill--Wilson Library ; Pack Memorial Library (Asheville); Western Carolina University--Penland of Crafts Collection; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill--Wilson Library--Bayard Morgan Wootten Photographic Collection; Pictorialism; Photography movements--Pictorialism; Commercial photographers ; Photographers--Great Depression
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38266
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The building reopened and named after one of the town’s native sons has functioned as a theater once before, from 1939-2006. Because of this, the present Don Gibson Theater and former State Theater still serves as a memory making site for Shelby citizens, into the third generation.
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38268
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Mount Airy, model for the town in Andy Griffith’s classic comedies, may also be known as site for the largest open faced granite quarry in the world. Locally, Mount Airy’s North Carolina Granite Corp.’s immense supply has been used in its high school’s façade. State projects include the Wright Brothers Memorial. On a national scale, it has been used in projects such as the Arlington Memorial Bridge.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 80 Issue 4, Sept 2012,
p166-168, 170, 172, 174, 176
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38305
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Granite Quarry’s Civitian Club takes pride in its place. Care for the community is measured in projects such as building a baseball field, sponsoring scholarships, and collecting coats for needy children.
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40462
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The pictured paintings on the sides of barns are more than just a decoration. They are works of art and reflection of Appalachia culture valued by natives and visitors alike, courtesy of Quilt Tours hosted by counties across North Carolina.
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