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Gates County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Total population of the county is 10,500. Gatesville, the county seat, is the only incorporated town. Westbrook describes the county that lies far from the hubbub of big city life but more than makes up for it with an abundance of quiet life and the great outdoors, including Merchants Millpond State Park.
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Warren County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Although sparsely populated, the county boasts a rich historical and architectural heritage.
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Montgomery County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. The geographic center of the state, the county has great potential for tourism.
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A CBS poll conducted in 2002 indicates over 57 percent of Americans believe in psychic phenomena, which includes E.S.P., clairvoyance, and psychokinesis. In 1927, Dr. J. B. Rhine and others established the Rhine Research Center Institute for Parapsychology in Durham. In 1935, it moved to Duke University. Westbrook discusses the work of Rhine and others in this particular field.
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Harnett County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Westbrook describes this rural county, which is poised for growth, although it must compete with the booming areas of Raleigh and Fayetteville/Fort Bragg.
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Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are frequent visitors along North Carolina's coast. Westbrook describes a new way to identify them - photo-ID - which permits individual tracking of animals by their identifying marks, and what scientists can learn from this information.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 66 Issue 10, Oct 2002,
p6-11, il
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Columbus County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Lying in the southeastern part of the state, the county is one of North Carolina's largest, encompassing 937 square miles. The county is known for yams, watermelons, and strawberries and their accompanying festivals. In the late 1890s, the county was known as \"the biggest strawberry market in the world.\"
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Rowan County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. In 2003, the county is celebrating its \"sesquiduplicentennial\" or 250th anniversary. Westbrook discusses the rich history of the county, sights to see, including the North Carolina Transportation Museum, and planned celebration events.
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Westbrook discusses five women who are making a difference in North Carolina agriculture: Meg Scott Phipps, North Carolina Secretary of Agriculture; Deborah Grant, owner of Agriculture Program Services; Genell Pridgen and Sandra Garner, sheep farmers; and Debbie Roos, Chatham County extension agent.
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Polk County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Polk, located in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills, is one of North Carolina's smallest counties. Tourists are attracted by a number of waterfalls, fine wines, scenery, and towns like Tryon and Saluda.
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Wilson County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. The county was formed in 1855. Westbrook discusses the county's history and points of interest that attract visitors, including the works of Lucama artist Vollis Simpson.
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Wayne County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. The county is home to three institutions whose names extend beyond county lines: Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Cherry Hospital, and Mt. Olive Pickle Company. The county also boasts a geological wonder, the Cliffs of the Neuse State Park; the rural cabin where Charles B. Aycock, the education governor, grew up; and the Waynesborough Historical Village.
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Kinston, county seat of Lenoir County, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel town of the month. Westbrook describes things to see and do in the town, including watching baseball at Grainger Stadium, a first-rate baseball park; enjoying the offerings of the Grainger-Hill Performing Arts Center; and visiting the Governor Richard Caswell Memorial and the C.S.S. Neuse State Historic Site.
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Rocky Mount sits astride the line dividing Nash and Edgecombe counties and is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel town of the month. The town is headquarters for a number of businesses, including RBC Centura and Hardee's Food System, and boasts two community colleges, Nash and Edgecombe, and North Carolina Wesleyan College. The town has survived several natural disasters, including the great flood following Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
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Is there a relationship between humor and health? Research studies have documented the physical effects of laughter, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing pain and stress. The Carolina Health and Humor Association, known as Carolina Ha Ha, was co-founded by Ruth Hamilton in 1986, prescribes a healthy dose of humor to combat pain and stress. Westbrook discusses the program and its implementation in a number of North Carolina hospitals, including the North Carolina Children's Hospital.
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