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Retiring after 30 years spent as an accountant at NC State, Bill Bunn planted 50 pecan trees on his childhood farm in 1981. In 1994, he and Dr. Mike Parker, a fruit and nut tree specialist founded the North Carolina Pecan Growers Association in 1994. Bunn died in 2011 without accomplishing his desire to fill his whole farm with pecan trees. His son-in-law Ben Byrd has since taken over of what is now Lakeview Pecans in Bailey, N.C
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 92 Issue 6, November 2024, p17-18, il, por Periodical Website
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44786
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Founded in 1967, the Country Doctor Museum was born from the interest of two women physicians, who were daughters of country doctors; namely, Dr. Josephine Newell and Dr. Gloria Graham. The two worked with co-founders Mary Gilliam Carr and Betty McCain. The Country Doctor Museum is the oldest such museum in the nation focusing on American rural medical history.