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"A devoted son honors his mom -- and all of North Carolina's mill workers -- through the Morganton-based Workers' Legacy Project". For 33 years, Mary Warlick served as a hosiery repairer at the Garrou-Morganton Full-Fashioned Hosiery Mills. The project gives former mill workers their due, preserving their memories through oral histories. This assemblage in turn is serving as a foundation for a documentary to be released in 2024. Partnering with the project is the History Museum of Burke County. On April 16, 2023, a monument referred to as the "Dignity of Work Monument", honoring mill workers was installed in front of the museum.
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44382
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"In the early 20th century, textile mill owners sponsored baseball teams, providing entertainment for their employees and nurturing a passion for the game that's been handed down through generations of North Carolinians." Among the dozens of mill-supported teams that blanketed the Piedmont region were the Kannapolis Towelers, the Chatham Blanketeers, the Gastonia Spinners, the Mount Holly Yarners and the Valdese Textiles. While early on, most teams were made up of employees, mill owner would bring in professional players when rivalries became intense Two players noted from among these teams are Homer Lee Fink Sr. and Grey Clarke..
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"Throughout its history, Winston Salem's Piedmont Airlines stayed one step ahead of the competition by coming up with innovative ways to satisfy its customers, like a one-of-a kind beverage that former passengers and employees still thirst for." From its beginnings in 1948, the airline always looked at ways to distinguish itself. Piedmont punch was introduced in October 1981. The 1989 merger with another airline was the beverage's demise. Chris Runge is curator and historian of the Piedmont Aviation Historical Society. A recipe of the original punch is included in the article.
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"In Wagram, the Richmond Temperance and Literary Society Hall offers a revealing glimpse into the lives of Scottish immigrants who answered a higher calling." The Society was established in 1855. Members pledged to neither buy sell or drink any intoxicating beverage. Members met for about 40 years. the building was later used as a school and for tobacco storage. It was restored in 1959
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"The story behind Andrews Geyser is deep, complex, and as irrepressible as the man-made fountain itself. It goes back to the 1870s, when the railroad finally climbed the Blue Ridge Encampment near Old Fort. The tragic Cost of that achievement is till being uncovered today." To extend the railroad west over the Blue Ridge Mountains, Maj. James W. Wilson designed a route that looped back on itself multiple times. More than 3,000 men and several hundred women convicts from the state prison in Raleigh provided the labor. UNC Asheville professor Dan Pierce notes it as the most important piece of infrastructure connected to the history of western North Carolina.
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Just prior to the Great Depression, a Gaston County textile mill introduced special khaki weave that served our armed forces with distinction for five decades." Stuart Cramer was perhaps the most extraordinary industrialist and inventor North Carolina ever produced. In designing and building textile mills, he developed the earliest version of air-conditioning to control humidity in these structures. Divesting himself of other businesses on account of poor health, he bought a mill community near Charlotte and later called Cramerton. It became a model for modern mill communities. Cramerton Army Cloth was introduced ther in 1929, which became highly desired the United States military.
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44337
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"Around 150 years ago, a group of freedmen and women established a kingdom in Henderson County that flourished, faded, then disappeared. New research is bringing the true origins of the community to light." Recent research by Suzanne Hale and Ronnie Pepper provides a clearer picture of the forces shaping this one-time community. The original narrative was first shared in Sadie Smathers Patton's book, The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Riding on the inspiration of Hale and Pepper's research, author Dolen Perkins-Valdez is set to publish her latest novel, "Happy Land in April 2025.
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44444
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"In Chapel Hill, items that were once the stuff of everyday life in North Carolina are part of a growing collection that's invaluable to understanding our state, its culture, and its history." Located in UNC Chapel Hill's Wilson Library, the Lew Powell Memorabillia Collection consists of more than 5,000 objects showcasing sports teams, politicians, reunions, personalities, events, causes and occasions. Powell's collection of North Carolina ephemera was accepted into the library's North Carolina Collection Gallery headed by Linda Jacobson in 2005.
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