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11464
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Grimes calls attention to some of the articles of women's wearing apparel that have disappeared over the last forty years, including cotton stockings, rubber sandals, bustles, corsets, and rats.
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11509
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Grimes recounts interesting and entertaining information found in historical records about President Washington's visit to North Carolina in the spring of 1791.
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11515
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Duels were fought between some well-known North Carolinians in the 19th-century, and some were fatal. One of the earliest took place in 1802 in Craven County between John Stanly and Richard Dobbs Spaight, a former Governor and member of the Continental Congress.
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11536
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North Carolina has produced many great women who have played dramatic and interesting roles in the state's history. Grimes makes her case for Cornelia Phillips Spencer as the greatest of them all. She is endeared to North Carolinians for her efforts to close the University of North Carolina when it was being disgraced by the carpet-bag regime, and then working to get it reopened a few years later under a new regime.
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11603
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Jane McKimmon was the first director of the North Carolina Home Demonstration Clubs and the state's first home demonstration agent. She began her work in 1909, and her job took her to many rural areas across the state. Her goal was to help rural women and girls learn how to improve their homes and their lives.
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11751
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Mrs. Sallie Southall Cotton was one of North Carolina's greatest women. Among her accomplishments were organizing in 1899 the End of the Century Club in Greenville for women to discuss books and sponsor community service projects and being a driving force in founding the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, an organization that enabled women statewide to speak as a group for public school improvement, prison reform, and aid to the poor and elderly.
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11857
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Grimes discusses the work of Mrs. Thomas O'Berry, who is the North Carolina Administrator of the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA).
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15182
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Grimes contrasts the North Carolina State Fair held at the turn of the century with the ones that are held today. In the old days not only was the fair held, but there were also social activities of an outstanding nature which included a week's activities of theater-parties, dances, parades, and balloon accessions.
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15274
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Josiah Turner Jr. of Orange County was the aggressive editor of the Reconstruction Period in North Carolina. In 1868 he purchased the Raleigh Sentinel and began his caustic and uncompromising crusade against Reconstruction. His major life work was the toppling of the Republican administration of Governor W. W. Holden and finally his impeachment.
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15359
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Eating habits in North Carolina have changed over the years. For example, the heavy Southern breakfast of the past has all but disappeared from today's breakfast table. Grimes compares what was served in the past with what is served today in the state.
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15529
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When wives accompanied their husbands/legislators to a term of the North Carolina General Assembly, there usually wasn't much for them to do, except remain in their hotel rooms. They didn't know other wives when they came and still didn't know them when they went home. In 1921, Mrs. B.H. Griffin conceived the idea of the Sir Walter Cabinet as a way to bring the wives together. Grimes recounts what its development has been, growing from a group of five or six women into an important society of sixty members presently.
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15533
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North Carolina sent over 100,000 soldiers to serve in the Civil War. Of that number only sixteen remain. They spend their days living quietly in the Old Soldiers' Home in Raleigh. Grimes describes the home and their life there.
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