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Although high-tech companies make up only 10 percent of the list of the state's one hundred largest employers, the technology itself affects the remaining companies in a number of ways, including improving security, efficiency, recordkeeping, and cost reduction. Waller lists the top one hundred employers. Delhaize America, Inc. is the largest employer with 35,355 workers.
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Located in Raleigh's downtown theater district, Cafe Luna is an Italian restaurant specializing in classic Tuscan fare. The restaurant opened in 1996 and turned a profit within four months. Cafe Luna focuses on the customer having a good meal, good conversation, and good wine and dessert.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 69 Issue 10, Mar 2002, p108-109, il Periodical Website
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5851
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Elizabeth City, the county seat of Pasquotank County, is named not for royalty, but for Betsy Tooley, the wife of Adam Tooley, who sold the land the city was built on. Waller discusses the history of the city and things to see and do on a weekend there.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 70 Issue 12, May 2003, p162-164, 166, 168, il Periodical Website
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6639
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Reidsville artist Mel Steele is profiled in this OUR STATE magazine article. Steele built his reputation on painting realistic, rural scenes in the 1980s and 1990s. Now he is moving away from that style and is creating colorful portraits and landscapes and abstract expressionist works.
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Kernersville, incorporated in 1871, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The Forsyth County town traces its history back to 1745, when William Dobson, a wealthy Irish immigrant, built an inn and store on the present site. The economy of the town was tied to tobacco, furniture, and textiles in the 20th-century, but those industries have declined. Today the town is home to 12 motor freight companies and over two dozen small manufacturing companies. One of the interesting sites to visit is the home Jule Korner built in Kernersville in 1880. Dubbed \"Korner's Folly,\" the red brick building stands 100 feet high, has seven stories, and is a wonder of opulence, oddity, detail, and combined architectural styles. The 22-room mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other points of interest are the Pegg House Tea Room, Honeybee Festival, and the Kernersville Little Theater.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 4, Sept 2004, p18-20, 22, il, map Periodical Website
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Jean Vollrath of Stanly weaves and teaches weaving in an 1835 log cabin on her property. Her work blends tradition with modern technology to create vibrantly colored and intricately patterned cloth. Vollrath works in this 170-year-old cabin, practicing a craft that dates back to ancient times, using looms from the early 20th-century to the present, and designing some of her cloth with computer software. Vollrath discusses the art of weaving and her creations.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 72 Issue 5, Oct 2004, p34-36, 38, il, por Periodical Website
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Many vacationers travel with the family pet, but they sometimes have difficulty finding accommodations that are pet-friendly. Waller describes three bed and breakfast inns in the North Carolina mountains that are hospitable to humans and their pets. They are the Buffalo Tavern Bed and Breakfast (West Jefferson); B&B at Ponder Creek (Mars Hill); and the Madison Inn, Restaurant and Mountain Lodge (Black Mountain).
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 1, June 2005, p34-36, 38-40, il Periodical Website
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Evangeline McLennan Davis was a woman who refused to be limited by the social conventions of her time. Born in 1914, Davis's early successes were in athletics. She earned a national tennis ranking and reached the quarter finals in what is now the U.S. Open. She later played golf and won the Southern Golf championship four times. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was a sportswriter. Many believe she was the first woman sportswriter in the country. In the late 1930s, an Atlanta paper sent her to report on the Far East, and she worked for a year in pre-war Japan. She married and settled in Greensboro with her journalist husband. They moved to Virginia in 1960, and she edited a weekly newspaper, The Virginia Gazette. Davis died in Raleigh in 2004.
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Photographer Carl Galie Headwaters began a three-year project in 1995 to photograph the section of the Roanoke River are in the southern Appalachian mountains of western Virginia to where the river descends to the North Carolina Piedmont and flows through several man-made reservoirs, including Kerr, Gaston, and Roanoke Rapids. His book, VISION QUEST, was published in 1998.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 11, Apr 2006, p150-152, 154-155, il Periodical Website
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Rockingham County and its county seat, Wentworth, are named for the second Marquess of Rockingham, Charles Watson Wentworth. Although British, he was very popular among the colonists for securing the repeal of the Stamp Act. Tobacco was a major economic force in the county at one time, with the American Tobacco Company as the largest employer. Visitors can find many activities in a number of small county towns, including antique shopping and a new proposed equestrian center in Reidsville, arts and crafts in Madison, and outfitting companies in Eden and Madison that market the county's river recreation. A number of festivals celebrate the community in the spring and summer and include a folk festival, pottery festival, and the Charlie Poole Music Festival.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 12, May 2006, p226-228, 230, il Periodical Website
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Greensboro is North Carolina's third largest city in population. The city spreads across 121 square miles of Guilford County. Greensboro made its mark on early American history as the site of a pivotal Revolutionary War battle in 1781. Almost 200 years later the city was the site of another historic event--the Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in February 1960. The sit-ins were nationally influential in the civil rights movement. Greensboro is home to a number of institutions of higher learning, including UNC-G, N.C. A.&T., Bennett College, Greensboro College, and Guilford College. Visitors will find attractions such as the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro Farmer's Market, and the Greensboro Grasshoppers, a minor league baseball team.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 1, June 2006, p18-20, 22, 24, 26-27, il, map Periodical Website
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The Piedmont Land Conservancy was founded in 1990 for the purpose of protecting and preserving the biologically rich areas of nine Piedmont counties. The group has around one hundred projects spread across 12,500 protected acres of natural land and farmland. Like The Nature Conservancy, a national nonprofit organization, the PLC is a land trust. Land trusts buy or facilitate the purchase of actual acreage or development rights on acreage to preserve that land's natural or historic value. The PLC focuses on Alamance, Caswell, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry, and Yadkin Counties.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 2, July 2006, p90-92, 94, 96-97, il Periodical Website
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Waller discusses the lives and works of West Jefferson artists Lenore De Pree and Joan Bell, who are owners of Originals Only in the same town.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 1, June 2010, p142-144, 146, 148,,151, il Periodical Website
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