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4021
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Steven G. Olson is the new outreach director for the North Carolina Sea Grant program as of November, 1998. He will supervise the Sea Grant's communication staff, educational programs, and extension grants. Other positions he has held include Director of the National Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute.
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4023
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Harkers Island is a place known for boatbuilding and boatbuilders. The Lewis, Guthrie, Willis, and Gillikin families are well-known in the trade. One of the most famous builders is Julian Guthrie, 84, who has numerous awards, including the first Living Treasure of North Carolina Award from UNC-Wilmington in 1988 and the N.C. Arts Council Folk Heritage Award in 1993.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Winter 1999, p14-18, il, por Periodical Website
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4024
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Boatbuilding is expanding, with over seventy-five builders in operation. They construct a variety of vessels, from small skiffs to luxury yachts. Among them are Grady-White Boats (Greenville) and Fountain Powerboats (Washington). Hatteras Yachts (New Bern), the state's largest manufacturer, employs over 850 and builds yachts valued at between $1 and $7 million.
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4025
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The bay scallop is found in only two Southeastern states -North Carolina and Florida-because it lives in seagrass beds. To protect its habitat, found mostly in Bogue and Core sounds, the state since the 1970s has closed these beds to mechanical harvesting. In 1997, 63,800 pounds were harvested, the largest harvest on the East Coast.
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4230
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Pettigrew State Park, covering parts of Tyrrell and Washington Counties, attracts visitors with its abundant wildlife, including red wolves, deer, and foxes; history, featuring Somerset Place, 4,400-year-old Algonquian dugout canoes, and Confederate General Johnston Pettigrew's grave; and Lake Phelps, providing great bass fishing and fall waterfowl viewing.
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4231
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The state parks of the Coastal Plain provide a variety of natural resources and treasures, including historic Fort Macon State Park; Jockey's Ridge State Park, featuring the East Coast's highest sand dune; and Carolina Beach State Park, which has an exhibit hall focusing on the park's plant and animal life. Other parks are Fort Fisher and Hammock's Beach.
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The North Carolina Estuarium, located in Washington, focuses on the unique environment of the Albemarle- Pamlico estuarine system, an area covering 2.2 million acres of water. It is the first aquarium to deal exclusively with the state's estuaries. The facility opened in 1998. Exhibits present ecosystems, fish and wildlife, history, and human interaction with the estuary.
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4303
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Surfing has become very popular along the Outer Banks, especially in the Cape Hatteras area where steepening and narrowing of the continental shelf creates big waves. Surfing has grown more family-oriented, and membership in the Outer Banks Surfing Association numbers over 400. Over the past decade surf shops have multiplied threefold. There are surfing restrictions, such as avoiding piers and wearing ankle ropes, but surfers champion coastal issues, working for clean water, clean beaches, and beach access.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Autumn 1999, p14-17, il Periodical Website
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The Columbia Theater Cultural Resources Center opened in Columbia in Tyrrell County in 1998 and is operated by the Partnership for the Sound. The focus of the center is the human interaction with the environment. A featured exhibit is Hunter Jim, an animated robot that talks to visitors about area wildlife. Other exhibits include forestry and artifacts from the ESTELLE RANDALL, a ship which burned and sank in 1910 while docked in Columbia.
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The high winds and flooding of the Great Storm of 1899 drove residents of Shackleford Banks and Ca'e (Cape) Banks from their homes forever. Survivors migrated to Morehead City and Harkers Island, where they built new homes and continued their community traditions. Green chronicles the return of their descendants to the Banks to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the storm.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Holiday 1999, p6-11, il Periodical Website
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4449
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Frank and Rachael Thomas, retired North Carolina State University faculty members, were honored with a scholarship, the Frank Bancroft and Rachael Kirby (Kinlaw) Thomas Food Science and Family and Consumer Scholarship. The undergraduate grant will assist students studying food science and nutrition, with priority given to those studying seafood and freshwater fisheries.
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4451
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The state's oyster industry has declined since the start of the 20th-century, dropping from an annual harvest of two million bushels to 44,613 bushels in 1998. Over-harvesting, harvesting methods, and a natural occurring parasite are contributors to the decline. Recommendations to alleviate the oyster crisis include aquaculture, improving the quality of coastal waters, and developing disease resistant strains.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Winter 2000, p6-11, il Periodical Website
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In 1801, ship's master and Revolutionary War hero, Captain Robert Richard Randell, bequeathed his 21-acre Manhattan estate to a perpetual trust for a home for retired and disabled sailors. The home, Sailors' Snug Harbor, remained in Staten Island until 1976, when it relocated to Carteret County. The 100,000-square-foot facility employs over one hundred and provides care, activities, and housing for men and women mariners. The retirement home is located on Nelson's Bay in Sea Level.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Winter 2000, p18-21, il Periodical Website
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4455
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JoAnne Powell is education curator at the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort. Powell has been at the museum since 1975 and is an enthusiastic communicator of knowledge of coastal marine and plant life.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Winter 2000, p25-26, il Periodical Website
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4545
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Settled around 1730, Swansboro, in Onslow County, was a busy Revolutionary War port with a major shipbuilding industry. After the Civil War, the shipping industry declined and was replaced by lumber and fishing interests. Today Swansboro is a picturesque town filled with shops, restaurants, and historic homes, a place many tourists miss in their haste to reach their beach rentals.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Spring 2000, p28-29, il Periodical Website