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Where and how 4-H clubs started is unknown since many states claim they started some club of this kind. In North Carolina, 4-H traces its official roots back to a corn club that was organized in Hertford County in 1909 to teach boys farming practices. Guided by Jane S. McKimmon, 4-H clubs for girls were being organized by 1911. Clubs for African-American youth formed in 1914. The various clubs became officially known as 4-H on January 1, 1926. By 1952, North Carolina led the nation in membership, with over 140,000 members enrolled in 2,280 4-H clubs. Westbrook discusses the focus of 4-H clubs through the years.
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Batik is a 2,000-year-old art form. Its origin is unknown, although many people give the credit to Indonesia. Batik, a labor-intensive, time-consuming technique, is the application of a design on fabric using successive layers of removable wax to protect certain areas from being exposed to certain dyes. The process can take weeks and months, depending on the complexity of the piece. Raleigh batik artist Amy Chapman Braun talks about her technique and creations.
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Mike and Ali Lubbock founded the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center in Scotland Neck in Halifax County in 1989. Covering about nine acres, the center boasts the largest collection of waterfowl in the world and is a conservation and research orientated center for birds, especially rare and endangered waterfowl. Sylvan Heights contains around 3,000 birds and 170 species, including 30 species that cannot be seen in any other collection or zoo in North America.
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During the Civil War salt was a commodity that was hard to come by in North Carolina. Early in the war the state government built a salt works at Morehead City and started work on a second one on Currituck Sound, but Union troops captured both sites in 1862. Westbrook recounts how the state government and private entrepreneurs worked to provide citizens and soldiers with salt for the remainder of the Civil War. By 1864, most salt production in the state had ceased.
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Alamance County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. During the colonial era, the county, then a part of Orange County, was the site of the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771, a fight between the forces of Royal Governor William Tryon and dissatisfied colonists called Regulators. Orange County was split in 1849, and Alamance was formed. Two industries figured prominently in the county's development--textiles and the railroad. Glencoe Cotton Mill operated from 1880 to 1954. In 1997 restoration began on the site, and thirty mill homes have been restored and sold. Elon University in Elon is a nationally recognized school. The Burlington Manufacturer's Outlet Center and the new Alamance Crossing, which opens in 2007, attract shoppers from across the state. Four wineries in the county and one in Guilford County have formed the Haw River Wine Trail to promote the wine industry.
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Margaret Anna Robertson was born in 1810, and in 1831, she married the Rev. Robert Burwell. In 1835, the family moved to Hillsborough, where Rev. Burwell had accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church. There she was prompted by local townspeople to open a school. In 1837, the Burwell School opened, initially for local girls. However, Burwell's curriculum for girls was progressive for the times and offered courses such as penmanship, geography, astronomy, algebra, chemistry, and philosophy. The boarding school soon attracted students from as far away as New York, Alabama, and Florida. The Burwell School operated for twenty years. During that time Anna Burwell was quite busy, raising her twelve children, teaching, looking after students boarding in her home, and being the wife of the minister. In 1857, they moved to Charlotte, where Rev. Burwell became president of the Charlotte Female Institute, now Queens University of Charlotte. Anna Burwell died in 1871.
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Bertram Whittier Wells taught biology and ecology at North Carolina State University for thirty–five years. At age thirty-five, Wells was three years older than the university when he began working there in 1919. Since the botany department was in its infancy, he contributed significantly to its development. The Natural Gardens of North Carolina is one of his best-known works.
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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,
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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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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,
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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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Tradition has it that the feast of the boar's head began in 1300. St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Kinston carries on the tradition in full regalia. The church held its first one in 1990, and it occurs in early January on the Sunday nearest Epiphany. The Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival is a spectacular program of dance, music, and drama that is entertaining as well as inspirational.
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The Farmer's Alliance Co-operative Store opened in 1888 in Siler City in Chatham County, and its purpose was to protect the interests of farmers by selling them goods at discounted prices. Now called the Farmers' Alliance Store, it was moved to its present site in 1907. Westbrook recounts the store's history.
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Westbrook explores Deadwood, a family-owned park with a western theme located near the community of Bear Grass in Martin County. The park is not a Six Flag's imitator; rather, it is smaller and more intimate without the hustle-and-bustle, huge crowds, and high prices.
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When North Carolina's wild turkey population reached its lowest point at 2,000 birds statewide around 1970, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and the National Wild Turkey Federation joined forces to develop a restoration plan.
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