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7589
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North Carolina towns celebrate New Year's Eve in a variety of ways. Raleigh lowers an acorn, and Charlotte lights up its crown. Other towns have more unusual ways. Brasstown drops a possum; Mt. Olive drops a three-foot, lighted dill pickle down the flagpole at the corner of Cucumber and Vine; and in Oriental, the Good Luck Dragon runs up and down the waterfront.
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 63 Issue 12, Dec 2005, p12, il
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Record #:
8837
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North Carolina folklore plays heavily on New Year's Day. For instance, if the first bird you see flying is flying low, you will be sick most of the year. It is bad luck to throw out dirty water or to wash clothes on New Year's Day.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 48 Issue 8, Jan 1981, p16, 58
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Record #:
13325
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This New Year's Eve, around 20 Gaston County residents will spend between 16 and 18 hours travelling from door to door, serenading friends and family with a salute of musket fire. Loaded with black powder for a guaranteed loud and smoky salutation, the New Year Shooters are carrying out a German Tradition numbering some 200 years in practice.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 22 Issue 16, Jan 1955, p10-11, 41, il, por
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35192
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Including photographs, poems, a speeches, and quotes, the author describes the annual tradition of firing guns on New Year’s Day. It had been brought over from Germany and taken up by many of the residents in Cherryville, NC.