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31334
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How can a person vanish? How can nobody know what happened? For a few families in the Charlotte region—including those of Denise Porch, Asha Degree, and Kyle Fleischmann—these are more than just hypothetical questions.
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31438
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Five geographic icons of Charlotte’s past are highlighted in this article, the Barringer Hotel, the Ivey’s building, Suttle’s Swim Club, Thompson’s Bootery and Bloomery, and McDonalds Cefeteria.
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31471
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Paul Booe was a beloved mixed martial arts trainer who taught hundreds of students how to fight their way out of difficult situations. But few people knew the battles being waged in his head, until one day, Mother’s Day 2015, he was gone.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 21 Issue 5, May 2016,
p118-120, il, por
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33675
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The Carolinas went wild over the Big Apple dance in the summer of 1937, and has spread to New York and other parts of the country. When the Roxy Theater in New York called for dancers, Charlotte held a dance contest to send the top four to the showcase.
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34633
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In this interview, author Anna Jean Mayhew discusses her debut novel titled “The Dry Grass of August”. Set in North Carolina during the Civil Rights movement, the author used personal experience and research as inspiration for her novel. She also discusses the people she based her characters on, the process of writing and publishing, and her next novel.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 22 Issue 1, 2013,
p44-61, il, por, f
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38296
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The highway as North Carolina’s colonists knew it was the primary pathway for many. Covering 700 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to August, Georgia, this road largely traveled by foot played a pivotal role in creating some of the state’s metros and major cities. Commemorating the importance of the Great Wagon Road are items in the Rowan Museum such as a wagon made by John Israel Nissen, descendant of original travelers of the road. A personal sign of the road’s importance is on display at the Knox Farm: the rim of one of The Great Wagon’s wheels. John Knox’s eighth generation descendants can’t attest the rim was on their ancestor’s wagon; they only know it’s always been part of the farm’s landscape.
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Indian paths--Great Wagon Road; Colonial North Carolina paths--Great Wagon Road; Great Wagon Road; Charlotte--History; Winston-Salem--History; Salisbury--History; Rowan Museum (Salisbury); Rowan County--History; Frontier roads--North Carolina--Great Wagon Road; Frontier roads--Great Philadelphia Wagon Road; Stokes County--History; North Carolina--Warrior's Path; Bethabara; Bethania--History; Revolutionary War--Great Wagon Road; American Revolution--Great Wagon Road; Colonial North Carolina--Travel ; Colonial North Carolina--Transportation
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40656
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The Wheelhouse Foundation uses immersive technology to help recreate local current and historical events that entertain, educate, and instill empathy. Productions like “Routine” and “Trail of History” uses virtual and augmented reality to help viewers vicariously experience the 2016 Charlotte Uprising and Mecklenburg County’s Declaration of Independence in 1775.
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Immersive technologies--virtual reality; Immersive technologies--augmented reality; The Wheelhouse Foundation--nonprofits--Charlotte; Mecklenburg County--History; Charlotte--History; Veterans Issues; Veterans, Disabled; Purple Heart Homes (Statesville); Nonprofit organizations--Charlotte; Charlotte--history--2016 Uprising ; Professional opera companies--Charlotte--Opera Carolina; Art galleries--Charlotte--Elder Gallery of Contemporary Art; Little Sugar Creek Greenway
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42972
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Douglas secured federal funds in the 1930s to build Memorial Stadium in Charlotte. President Roosevelt attended the Stadium's dedication in 1936. At the same time, Douglas also found funding for Charlotte Memorial Hospital., North Carolina's first municipal art museum (Mint Museum of Art) and the first subsidized affordable housing for Black Charlotteans in 1940.
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42977
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Battles over the uptown/downtown label have been frequent through the years. Newspaper archives in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library prove "uptown" was the earliest adjective used to describe the city's central business area.
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