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Hops, the plants that give beer its flavor and aroma, are receiving serious consideration for cultivation in western North Carolina. The stalks can reach a height of seventeen feet. A number of farmers in the western counties see hops as an alternative to tobacco growing.
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First opened by the Hartman family in 1888, the store was taken over by Lula and Noah Priddy in 1929. It has remained in their family ever since and still sells the basic and not-so-basic necessities in its Stokes County location near the town of Danbury.
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Jason Michael Carroll is a rising country music star from Youngsville. He has two hit albums, five hit singles, performs in large and small venues across the country, and has been opening act for some of country music's biggest stars.
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13293
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Green discusses the work and creations of folk artist Cher Shaffer. Shaffer is a self-taught artist who lives in Creston in Ashe County. Her work has been featured in folk art shows around the country and in a number of museums. Private collectors like Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jane Fonda own her art.
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Bradley reminiscences about the time the Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation brought electricity to the remote sections of rural northern Polk County in 1948. The big trucks could not move over the non-maintained state road, so the company hired out the family mule, Ol' Mabel, to drag the poles and lines to the places where they would be set.
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15332
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Concord Masonic Lodge No. 58 will celebrate its 200 anniversary on November 22, 2011. The Lodge had met ten times before receiving its official charter from the state's Grand Lodge on that date. Books of the Lodge's minutes record its activities from 1811.
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15604
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Nuclear power is the source of about fifty percent of the electricity distributed to the state's electric cooperatives. This article reports on the actions that were taken on all nuclear power plants in the country following Japan's devastating earthquake.
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15605
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Mary Ellen Rogers started Sea Biscuit Wildlife Shelter on Oak Island in 2007. It is the only bird rescue facility on the Atlantic Coast between Morehead City and Charleston. A normal stay is six months, and if recovered, the bird is released; otherwise, it will be used by an educational facility to teach the public about bird life. A total of 398 birds were brought to the facility in 2010.
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15606
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Hurricane Irene made landfall at Cape Lookout on August 27, 2011. With hurricane force winds extending ninety miles out and tropical storm winds extending 290 miles, the storm moved slowly northward at fifteen miles an hour, creating a wide path of destruction. Gery recounts how the storm affected electric cooperatives in the eastern part of the state.
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Campbell discusses the pottery creations of Senora Lynch, a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribal community in Halifax and Warren counties. She uses the traditional coil method to build her pots from the red clay found locally. Lynch then whitewashes it with layers of liquefied white clay. Intricate designs are etched through the white clay so the red beneath shows through. Her work has been displayed in such places as the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and the N.C. Museum of History.
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16016
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For years the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries has been building oyster reefs from Dare County on the northern coast to Brunswick County on the southern. Miller discusses how it is done and the success of the program.
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16877
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Ney discusses the advantages of buying food that is raised by local farmers. It is estimated the North Carolinians spend $35 billion per year on food purchases. If just 10 percent were spent locally, that would bring $3.5 billion into local economies and provide support to local farmers and provide jobs in the farming community.
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16879
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Doug Monroe of Ashe County and John Swann of Yancey County are two maple syrup makers in the state who have tapped into a niche market. It takes forty-five gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. Monroe has 250 taps and Swann has 400 so their production is limited, and they sell their syrup only locally.
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16882
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Johnston County native Margaret Maron, the author of twenty-six novels, two short story collections, and the recipient of all the major awards for mystery writing, discusses why she \"is happiest living on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere.\"
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16888
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The remnants of the mill village built around the 1905 Henry River Cotton Mill in Burke County served as the set for \"District 12\" in the movie \"The Hunger Games.\"
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