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7334
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Eight years ago Bob Plimpton discovered North Carolina and decided not to return to Florida. He purchased eighty-eight acres in Henderson County and settled in. On his property, where moonshiners had formerly operated, he discovered an old stump with a bubbling spring of clean, pure water. A former salesman, Plimpton became a full-time natural spring water supplier in North Carolina and across the Southeast. He now bottles and sells spring water under approximately seventy different labels. He is currently president of the North Carolina Spring Water Association, an alliance of about twenty small spring owners, bottlers, and distributors.
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In northeastern Chatham County, the Williams family descendants have owned and worked the same forty acres of land and forest for eight generations. They are the descendants of Mountain Williams, 1814-1873, a part-Indian, part African slave girl. Each year, starting in 1895 and continuing to the present, the Williams Family Circle, as they are called, have gathered for a family reunion in Chatham County. More than 300 persons come from all over the nation to renew family ties and family history.
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In October 1995, photographer Kendall Messick and his friend Brenda Parker Hunt visited her hometown of Corapeake in Gates County to take some photographs of her relatives. What he discovered were faces and images he felt compelled to preserve on film. Over the next seven years he shot thousands of pictures of Corapeake's African American elders and spent countless hours recording their memories. The result was a documentary film, called \"Corapeake,\" that combines the recorded voices with the still images of the town's current and former residents.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 6, Nov 2006,
p54-56, 58, 60, 62, 64, il, por
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9416
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Riley Baugus, of Walkertown near Winston-Salem, is a self-taught banjo player and builder who plucks the ancient melodies of Appalachia. His parents were not musicians, but they immersed him in this style of music from an early age. The first instrument he mastered was the fiddle, followed by the guitar and banjo.
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Gibson discusses the life and accomplishments of multi-talented Billy Edd Wheeler, who is a painter, sculptor, author, playwright, Elvis impersonator, and writer of legendary songs, including “Jackson†for Johnny Cash, “Coward of the County,†made famous by Kenny Rogers, and “The Reverend Mr. Black.â€
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9693
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Two radio stations on opposite ends of the state provide a venue for local artists of varying musical styles who otherwise might not be heard by the public. George Olsen's show “The Sound†is broadcast over Public Radio East from the Craven Community College campus in New Bern, and Kim Clark's show “Local Color†is broadcast over WNCW, a public radio station on the campus of Isothermal Community College in Spindale.
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9874
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Press 53, a new, small book publishing company in Winston-Salem, is committed to giving a voice to both classic and cutting edge literature, with an emphasis on the short story. The company publishes poetry, novels, anthologies, novellas, history, and creative nonfiction and has been in business two-and-a-half-years. Two staffers, Kevin Watson and Sheryl Monks do it all.
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10708
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In 1944, a polio epidemic struck the town of Hickory. Even though the country was fighting a global war, the town and the nation responded to the crisis with swift, unprecedented action.
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20142
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When Japanese arrowroot was introduced more than 100 years ago to flower beds and gardens across the South, no one suspected this monstrously invasive species--kudzu--would become as ubiquitous to places like North Carolina as tobacco farms and BBQ restaurants.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 3, Aug 2013,
p152-154, 156, 158-159, f
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