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16244
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On any given day of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, men and women from North Carolina's maritime communities could be observed laboring on markers of these maritime cultures such as duck blinds and sail skiffs, and explaining trapping and net fishing with songs and tales.
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34766
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The town of Beaufort, nestled on the Outer Banks, is the origins of the Inland waterway. This maritime route extends into the Neuse River, where it joins the Pamlico Sound. Traveling north, mariners can follow the Pamlico into the Albemarle and Chesapeake Bays. To move between Beaufort and Norfolk, Virginia, a system of canals linking the rivers and sounds was created. In 1925, canal expansion was underway to link the Alligator River and Cape Fear River into this inland waterway, bypassing the Pamlico Sound and the capes of the Outer Banks, respectively.
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The Researcher (NoCar F 262 C23 R47), Vol. 24 Issue 2, Fall-Spring 2008/2009, p3-5, il, map
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34706
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Captain Edward Stanley Lewis was a Beaufort native who was engaged with maritime industry from an early age. Working as a cabin boy for a lumber barge, Lewis adopted sailing and fishing during his teenage years. He worked as a pilot, ferrying yachts from New York to Miami and mastered party boats out of Beaufort. After obtaining his captain’s license, Lewis worked on various menhaden boats associated with Outer Banks fisheries.
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The Researcher (NoCar F 262 C23 R47), Vol. 20 Issue 2, Winter 2004, p16-17, il, por
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30893
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Workboats in the Core Sound region of North Carolina are linked to families, communities, local landscapes, and the types of fishing that the region offers. On March 1, 2008, a symposium and photographic exhibit celebrates the role and importance of the area’s historic workboats. The public event will present talks by Core Sound fishermen, historians, and writers on the cultural heritage of the area’s fishing vessels.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 40 Issue 1, Jan 2008, p21, il
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31405
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The Hampton Mariners Museum in historic Beaufort offers varied exhibits and programs celebrating past and present coastal life. A new Watercraft Center will be built in honor of Harvey W. Smith, an operator of menhaden processing plants and an avid collector of maritime objects. The facility will also provide space for the museum’s boat shop, workshop and maritime research program.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 15 Issue 7, July 1983, p8-9, il
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40684
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Ocracoke’s cultural traditions are worth keeping alive, as the author proved in her description of one of its community symbols. She also illustrated this through James Barrie Gaskill, whose life reflected the Outer Banks’ identity, unique to the rest of the state.
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Carolina Country (NoCar HD 9688 N8 C38x), Vol. 51 Issue 7, July 2019, p14-16
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22519
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The Dram Tree, a staple of the geographic landscape in Edenton, was also a folk icon of the area where incoming sea captains to the port were to leave a bottle of rum within the giant cypress, but were also expected to replenish it with the same upon leaving. The first paragraph states that a recent winter storm destroyed this icon of Eastern North Carolina.
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