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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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Hendersonville, county seat of Henderson County, is OUR STATE's Tar Heel town of the month. Westbrook discusses what to see and do on a visit there.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 4, Sept 2007,
p20-22, 24, 26-27, il, map
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For couples seeking an inexpensive way to get married, the state's many wedding chapels can afford an answer, providing ministers, flowers, bridal shops, and unique ceremonies, all for a modest price. The Sunshine Wedding Chapel (Cumberland County), Domestic Bliss (Wilmington), Tweed's Wedding Chapel (Buncombe County), Smithfield Wedding Chapel (Johnston County), and the Crystal Wedding Chapel (Blowing Rock) are profiled.
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Ever wonder what happened to your old school building after you graduated? Some schools continue on as educational institutions; some are torn down; some are refurnished, rejuvenated, and reinvented. Westbrook describes five which have found new lives as a theatre, inn, apartments for the elderly, apartments, and a municipal building.
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For the past twenty-five years, Kinston in Lenoir County has been a bluegrass music center. The town is home to the Eastern North Carolina Bluegrass Association. Carol Tyndall, the president of the association, is unique in that she doesn't sing or play a musical instrument, but she loves the music so much that she has devoted twenty years to the organization. Westbrook recounts how it grew from its start in an old barn in 1981 to a bluegrass venue where bands are booked for performance almost a year in advance. Kinston is host to the Annual Kinston Winter Bluegrass Festival, which is also unique because it is held indoors during wintertime. Started in 1994, the festival attracts over 1,800 fans to the two-day event.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 12, May 2007,
p120-122, 124, 126-127, il, por
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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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Founded in Charlotte in 1913 by Philip Lance, Lance today is the largest producer of sandwich crackers in the United States. The company had revenues of $583 million in 2001. Westbrook discusses the company's history.
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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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Laurinburg, county seat of Scotland County, is Our State magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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North Carolina's four medical colleges are located at Duke University, East Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University. These four are raising the standard of patient care and medical research.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 76 Issue 8, Jan 2009,
p108-110, 112, 114, 116, il
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Chapel Hill artist, Dr. Pamela George, and Triangle-area calligrapher Dr. Walter M. Brown have created a North Carolina Alphabet, consisting of one painting of each letter of the alphabet. Each picture bears the image of an animal, plant, place, or thing that can be found in the state. When put together the painting measures a mural-sized eight feet wide by six feet tall. Since the painting's completion, Carolina Wren Press has turned it into a children's book which will be published in September 2005. The publishing company will also publish a learner's poster of the alphabet for home and classroom use.
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Madison County is a mountain county covering 450 square miles. It has three incorporated towns--Marshall, Mars Hill, and Hot Springs; a population of 20,000; and a public school system of 2,500. The county has an abundance of natural resources and beauty. Pisgah National Forest covers almost half the county, and the Appalachian Trail runs along the northern border. Westbrook describes various places that visitors will enjoy.
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Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle, characters on the 1960s television program The Andy Griffith Show, are impersonated by Scott Epperson and Bruce Newman, respectively. They appear at parades and festivals in North Carolina and across the country.
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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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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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