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8902
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There are many superstitious toothache remedies in North Carolina. Ranging from animal parts tied around the neck to chewing tree roots, these remedies are a part of North Carolina's culture. Article is reprinted from the January, 1975 edition.
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8955
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The Walk of Fame at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, recently added a stone for North Carolina's best known author, Thomas Wolfe. The walk is bordered by over 800 stones such as Wolfe's, and all are from the birthplace or other spot associated with the person they honor. Begun fifty years ago as a personal hobby by Dr. Hamilton Holt, then president of Rollins, as many as thirty stones are added to the walk each year.
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9385
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Folklore includes numerous tooth-related superstitions that seem ludicrous today. Two different species of trees in North Carolina, Aralia sinosa and Zanthoxylum americanum are both commonly known as “toothache tree†for their supposed medicinal value. In rural areas men known as “tooth jumpers†once practiced tooth removal with a punch and mallet.
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The Marryin' Tree, or Big Lynn, of Little Switzerland, was cut down in January 1965, because it had become a hazard to passing traffic. The tree was registered by the National Forest Association as the champion of the linden species in the country and was estimated to between 500 and 600 years old.
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Sonya Hagna, founder and owner of the highly successful Dilly Bean business, has started a new company, Tawashi, Inc., that manufactures and sells wash cloths made from the spongy fibers of the Hischima plant, a gourd very similar to the Luffa cylindrical. Hagna, a High Point native, has received extensive national coverage as a female entrepreneur in national magazines such as TIME and PAGEANT.
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9946
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Francis Silvers, also known as Frankie, was convicted of killing her husband Charlie Silvers and executed on July 12, 1833 in Morganton, making her the only white woman ever hanged in North Carolina. Despite initial claims of innocence, Frankie Silvers eventually admitted to killing her husband with an axe, dismembering his body, and burning the pieces in the fireplace of their Burke (now Mitchell) County cabin. Always a prime subject for folklore writers, the latest offering on the Frankie Silvers saga is a 60-page booklet by Maxine McCall titled “They Won't Hang a White Womanâ€, prepared in conjunction with the Burke County Cultural Heritage Project, ESEA (Elementary Secondary Education Act) Title III.
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9990
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Judge Spencer A. Martin, having lived much of his life in Arkansas, settled his home in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Judge Martin served in the Arkansas House of Representatives and was eventually appointed county judge. Martin was once Confederate prisoner of war after sustaining a wound to the collarbone.
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10379
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This article discusses the presence of sapphire sources in Jackson and Macon Counties. Locals found the stones in abundance during farming, but the actual discovery waited until late in the 1850s. This region has provided large minerals to major science museums throughout the U.S.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, lived much of their famously troubled lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Fitzgerald, who was from Baltimore, visited western North Carolina in February 1935, when traveling to Tryon in Polk County. The Sayre family had summered in Polk County, in Saluda, ten miles from Tryon, since Zelda was ten years old. Both F. Scott and Zelda returned to western North Carolina many times for rest and rehabilitation, F. Scott for his tuberculosis and alcoholism and Zelda for treatment of schizophrenia. Zelda, who was an accomplished writer, painter, and dancer, remained at Highland Hospital in Asheville when F. Scott relocated to Hollywood, and was released after four years on the occasion of Scott's death. Zelda returned for treatment again and died in a fire at the hospital in 1948.
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10648
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The retirement home of Prof. Charles Halleck Wing, a unique two-story, six room house with no inside stairway, has been moved to Gouge's Creek from its original location in the Ledger Community of Mitchell County. Prof. Wing, a native of Brighton, MA, served as a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is credited with establishing bookmobile services for libraries. Prof. Wing also established a free school and the Good Will Free Library containing some 12,000 volumes, a considerable amount of books for a small rural community like Ledger in the 1880s.
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The account that Thomas Wolfe's mother gave him of a Mitchell county triple murder served as his inspiration for his short story, \"The Web of Earth,\" which was published in a volume of his collected pieces titled FROM DEATH TO MORNING. The triple slaying that Wolfe used as the basis for this story occurred in 1885 at the Miller-Horton mica mine just off present State Highway 226, approximately four miles north of Spruce Pine. Wolfe's mother also related her involvement in the case to her son, specifically her having given shoes to the escaped convicts that had been convicted of the killings and jailed in Asheville.
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10754
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At least ten forest monarchs of North Carolina have made the Sylvan \"social register\" originated in 1940 by The American Forestry Association. As presently listed by the association, the largest Carolina hemlock, shortleaf pine, red spruce, holly, sourwood, hornbeam, witchhazel, rosebay, and yellow poplar trees in the country can be found in North Carolina.
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10779
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Barter between the early Carolina traders and the Cherokees and other tribes was well organized, and its total annual volume amounted to \"big business\" in the Carolinas. Prior to 1715 the names of some 100 Carolina traders were noted in the public records, and many more appeared there between 1715 and 1750. Best known, perhaps, of these early traders was James Adair, an Irishman, who landed in America in 1735 and was the only trader to write a book about his experiences. Other traders known to have successful interactions with the Cherokees include Thomas Nairne, Price Hughes, Eleazer Wiggan, Joseph Cooper, Robert Dunning and David Dowie.
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10793
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The Roan Mountains on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina are famous for circular rainbows, known as Anthelions. Mentioned in Margaret W. Morley's THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINS, these rare rainbow formations have only been found in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Scottish Highlands.
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Various authorities including the latest edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, now agree that a considerable amount of sheet mica from the North Carolina mountains eventually ended up in ancient burial mounds in southern Ohio. The mound builders were once considered a separate race that pre-dated the Indians, whom the earliest white explorers found on the North American continent. Anthropologists now believe that these mound builders were actually ancestors of the tribes who were found occupying the land when Columbus arrived.
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