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The harbor towns of Belhaven, Plymouth, Swan Quarter, and Swansboro are the subjects of Morris' piece.
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Finding safer and less expensive ways to manage municipal solid waste is an important challenge facing many cities. Unit pricing is one of the latest attempts to reduce costs.
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Visitors to North Carolina might want to tour the state's unusual museums: Gastonia's Schiele Museum of Natural History, Boone's Appalachian Cultural Museum, Bailey's Country Doctor Museum, Wilkes County's Trail of the Eagle Museum, and Morehead City's Carteret Museum of History and Art.
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Morris offers a glance at five state parks that characterize North Carolina's diverse geography: Lake Waccamaw State Park, Pettigrew State Park, Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve, Stone Mountain State Park and Crowders Mountain State Park.
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In April and October every year, High Point is transformed from a modest city into the world's furniture exhibition center. Morris describes this event and highlights some points of interest in the city.
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Where the Wright Brothers once flew, hang gliders now soar from Jockey's Ridge on the Outer Banks. John Harris, founder and owner of Kitty Hawk Kites, estimates he has taught 170,000 people to hang glide since 1974.
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Until recently, Corolla in Currituck County was a tiny, isolated village where N.C. Highway 12 ended and wild horses had roamed for centuries. Vacationers' discovery of Corolla has caused its transformation into a tourist and vacation home area.
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For hikers there is no shortage of trails in the state's forests. With over a million acres of national and state parks, like Stone Mountain and Pisgah, choosing a trail might be more daunting than the actual hike.
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Historical farms, like Cedarock Historical Farm in Alamance County and Duke Homestead in Durham County, give visitors the feel of a working farm in the 19th- and 20th-centuries.
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The state has twenty-two historic sites, including Town Creek Indian Mound in Montgomery County and Bennett Place in Durham, that interpret the past for visitors and relate it to present-day life.
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Carolina bay lakes are a unique natural wonder in that they are no deeper than six feet, elliptical, and dependent on rainwater. Among the best known are Lake Phelps, Lake Mattamuskeet, and White Lake.
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Between Mocksville in Davie County and Whalebone in Dare County is a meandering 360 miles of U.S. Highway 158. To travel it is to experience rural landscapes, small communities, historic areas, and a sense of yesterday.
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Kim Powell planned to retire in 2005 after thirty-plus years of service with Agricultural Extension and the Department of Horticultural Science at N.C. State University. Along with his teaching duties, he had been directly responsible for all Agricultural Extension professionals statewide. He had also hosted the UNC-TV show 'The Backyard Gardner' and a weekly call-in radio show on gardening. However, his retirement was delayed when he was asked to fill in as interim director of the J. C. Raulston Arboretum while a search was undertaken for a new director. The position was filled in December 2005.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 11, Apr 2006,
p144-146, 148-149, il, por
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Most of the focus on Fayetteville is about the bustle of Bragg Boulevard near the military base. A hidden gem, however, can be found in the city’s historic downtown, where colonial-style homes, and other historical markers, are located.
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