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8957
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Lex Kelly, a district engineer for the state Department of Transportation, spends his free time building scale models of bridges. Although he also sculpts and paints, bridge-building is Kelly's favorite pastime. Funds are being gathered to build a new transportation museum in Spencer, and Kelly plans to donate several of his models to it.\r\n
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Bob Monte designs complex paper model replicas of notable landmarks around the world that include precise details of a one foot equals two hundred feet scale. His kits are sold at historic sites and museums including the Smithsonian.
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23977
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Jimmy Courson has been building models of ships for 57 years in Belhaven, Beaufort County, North Carolina.
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Western North Carolina's Model Railroaders hosts Eliada Home's weekly Model Train Program, in which participants design and paint elaborate cities and farms for the model trains to travel through.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 11 Issue 8, August 2014,
p116-117, il
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29934
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George O'Neal, Jr. is working to save a collection of 21 ship models made by his father, George O'Neal, Sr. The collection, which includes models of historic and modern sailing vessels from barkentines to schooners, provide examines of vessels that sailed the North Carolina coast.
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35332
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How Jimmy Courson of Belhaven became an inspirational person is through the construction of model ships, a craft he has perfected over the past almost six decades. Just as noteworthy is Jimmy’s refusal to let a battle with oral cancer stop him from engaging in this work of (he)art.
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35947
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Outer Banks residents might be expected to harbor a yen for hobbies signifying fishing village lifeways. The author’s grandfather reflected the rule in model ship building and decoy carving. He could be seen as a model for his models, some featured in accompanying photos. His works gained recognition outside of the Banks by being published in National Geographic in the 1950s and featured in Ben Dixon MacNeill's The Hatterasman.
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8.Moody’s Model Boats and Ducks by Gray, Michael; Lynch, Susan Sea Chest Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978
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35997
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Moody Austin’s knowledge known was as a model boat builder and decoy carver. Knowledge collected included trips to Manteo that took a day, dirt roads, and cars as a rare sight. Those days on Hatteras Island were also part of a time when kerosene was the only light source, a schoolhouse accommodated children of all ages, and no businesses.
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