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The North Carolina Jayvee Burn Center was dedicated November 23, 1980. The center occupies the fifth floor of the new Support Tower at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. The facility is one of only fourteen burn centers in the country. The expanded center was first proposed in 1971, when the then six-bed burn center was considered too limited in space and capabilities. The new center has twenty-three beds and state-of-the-art equipment.
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8616
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Georgia Bonesteel of Hendersonville has been practicing and teaching lap quilting for the past ten years. Lap quilting is a method of making a quilt in small sections and assembling them for the finished product. Bonesteel has published a book titled LAP QUILTING and produced a twelve-show series on the topic for North Carolina television PBS stations.
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The Historic Murfreesboro Heritage Festival and the Lafayette Ball are held each spring on alternating years in the town of Murfreesboro. Both events keep the history of the town and surrounding Hertford County alive. The Heritage Festival features a tour of twenty-two historic homes, fifteen of them fully restored, with costumed guides who explain the history of the dwellings. Others structures include the Rea Store, which is the state's oldest brick commercial is building, and Judge B.B. Winbourne's 1790 law offices. The Lafayette Ball, named for the Marquis de Lafayette, is a major fund-raiser for the Murfreesboro Historical Association.
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8626
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Williams writes of the Southern experience in his works, developing themes that go beyond race and social class. His writing interest began at a young age in his hometown of Burgaw, and he channeled this interest into creative writing as a student at Morgan State College in Baltimore. After graduating, Williams moved to New York to pursue a career in the arts. For several years he wrote plays that were produced in obscure off-Broadway locations. In 1978, he finished his first successful play, HOME, but several years passed before it came to the attention of major producers, who took it to Broadway in 1980. Now that he has achieved success with this play, Williams is receiving new recognition for his other work.
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Winston-Salem artist Bob Dance is nationally famous for his watercolors and acrylic paintings of wildlife and the outdoors, especially his scenes of the North Carolina coast. He is a graduate of the Philadelphia Museum College of Art. His works are included in many private and corporate collections and have been widely exhibited and featured in various art magazines and books.
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North Carolina artist Ben Long is a master of the ancient art form of fresco painting, one of the most demanding and unforgiving mediums in which to work. He is originally from Statesville but now lives in Florence, Italy. In the summer of 1980, Long painted an Italian Renaissance style fresco titled “The Last Supper†on the wall behind the altar at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Glendale Springs in Ashe County. The church had been abandoned for almost fifty years. The 17 by 17 and one half foot work features people from the local community who modeled for the disciples.
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Van Sataaldiunen was nine years old when his family left Holland in 1939, just before the outbreak of World War II. Unable to come immediately to the United States, they lived in Canada first before coming to Beaufort County. Beaufort and Hyde Counties have sizeable Dutch colonies. Van Staalduinen farms 600 acres in Beaufort County, with about a third of it devoted to tulip raising. Other flowers include daffodils, peonies, irises, and hyacinths. Most of his flowers are sold in North Carolina and neighboring states. It is an uncertain business, subject to the whims of nature, blight, and tax laws. His tulip farm is the last of its kind in area which once supported thirty such farms.
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Denton, located in Davidson County, is celebrating its 100th year of incorporation. It was originally known as Finch's Cross Roads in 1819, when Richardson Finch purchased 500 acres near today's junction of Salisbury Street and Main Street. Andrews highlights notable citizens and business development in the town.
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8800
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Three geologists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discuss their research on North Carolina's peat resources and other alternate fuels, including shale, methane gas, and sandstone brine. The professors are Roy L. Ingram, John M. Dennison, and Daniel A. Textoris.
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Today drugstores are big chain stores--modern, clean, and friendly. Martin compares today's drugstores to ones in the first third of the 20th-century when stores were privately owned.
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8802
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission established the North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation in 1980 to develop alternate energy resources. In part 1, executive director Dr. John Veigel examines the corporation's goals and aspirations. Before assuming this position, Veigel, who has a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UCLA, served on the staff pf the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden, Colorado.
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The North Carolina Utilities Commission established the North Carolina Alternative Energy Corporation in 1980 to develop alternate energy resources. In part two of this CAROLINA COUNTRY interview, executive director Dr. John Veigel continues his examination of the corporation's goals and aspirations.
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Union Camp Corporation, a major forest products company, has deeded a 176-acre tract of woodlands along the Roanoke River in Northampton County to the Nature Conservancy. The area is known as Camassia Slopes. About 500 plants have been found there, representing 95 percent of the known plant families in North Carolina. Over two dozen rare and endangered wildflowers grow there, including James' sedge, eastern wahoo, and three-bird orchid.
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Merrill Lynch, a North Carolina State University zoology graduate, is employed with the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, a division of the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources. When he was hired in 1979, the program was seeking someone to survey bottomland hardwood forests along the Roanoke River. In his surveys, Lynch discovered an area now called the Camassia Slopes, where plants normally seen in the Smoky Mountains and Ohio River Valley grow. The land, which was later deeded to the Nature Conservancy, is one of twenty top priority sites along the Roanoke River identified for preservation.
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FCX, Inc., then known as Farmers Cooperative Exchange, opened its first outlet in Burlington in 1934. Seven more stores quickly followed. FXC stores opened during the Great Depression. Such deprivation and suffering had not been see in North Carolina since the end of the Civil War. FCX began as a self-help program for farmers. In the fifty years since then FCX has grown into an operation with ninety-five centers and gross sales of about $500 million a year. In 1984, it ranks as the Number One farm supplier in North and South Carolina.
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