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Harrison recounts several incidents in the Union occupation of Eastern North Carolina during 1862 and provides several primary sources for further reading.
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17713
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An educational initiative at T.C. Henderson Elementary School in western North Carolina takes science students outdoors for first-hand experience with concepts such as momentum. These educational experiences are actually improving student test scores.
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Tobacco baskets, once a common utilitarian product in the tobacco markets, have become a hot commodity as wall art in homes across the country. The first baskets were made in Kentucky, but North Carolina became the primary producer of tobacco baskets by the late 1800s.
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During the past year, a cooperative spirit accomplished something extraordinary in North Carolina's textile industry. The mission was to grow organic cotton, turn the fiber into thread, the thread into cloth, and the cloth into clothing--all without leaving the state.
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18389
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Union Power Cooperative, based in Monroe, is getting worldwide recognition for an online system that gives employees a real-time picture of how the co-op's utility system is operating at any time.
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Mysterious lights have been appearing at Brown Mountain in the Linville Gorge area of North Carolina for hundreds of years. According to the Cherokee legend, around 1200 A.D. a great battle was fought between the Cherokee and Catawba Indians at Brown Mountain and the mysterious lights are from the Indian maidens still searching for their men who died in battle.
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Cool and green describe the new Moss Green Roof at the North Carolina Arboretum located in Asheville. This roof showcases how indigenous mosses can achieve year-round green beauty as well as how mosses tolerate full sun exposure and control storm water runoff.
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18393
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North Carolina has a long held reputation as America's most military-friendly state, and with good reasons. The armed forces employs more than 10 percent of North Carolina's workforce, and the military's contribution to the state's economy is nearly $24 billion.
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18394
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The Christmas tree crop in North Carolina is an important one for the state--it is estimated that the value of the crop is approximately $100 million annually.
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18395
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Mount Carmel Presbyterian Church, located on the Richmond-Montgomery County line near Ellerbe in central North Carolina, was organized in 1776 by the Rev. John Bethune. Mount Carmel is 11th on the Presbyterian Church in America list of its 50 oldest churches.
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18493
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One approach to putting people back to work during the Great Depression was commissioning artists to paint murals on federal buildings. Artists were chosen not on need but through anonymous competitions. The program ran from 1934 to 1943. During that time over 1,300 murals and 300 sculptures were commissioned nationwide. The article contains a list of post offices in the state where murals can still be viewed and buildings that were destroyed along with the murals.
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18494
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House provides readers with a day trip to Wake Forest in Wake County, including antique stores, book stores, gift shops, places to eat, and a year-round farmers market.
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18828
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Duffus recounts how friends and relatives of Jim Baugham Gaskill of Ocracoke learned that his ship had been torpedoed off the North Carolina coast. His cousin found his third mate's license washed up on the beach, and a few days later an oar bearing the ship's name washed up at his father's inn, the Pamlico Inn. His ship, SS Caribsea, went down in three minutes on March 11, 1942; only seven survived.
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The Tuscarora War raged off and on for a year and a half in eastern North Carolina as the Native Americans living in Eastern North Carolina in 1711 fought to regain their independence. It ended with the four day battle at Fort Neoheroka, March 20-23, 1713. Over 600 Tuscarora men, women, and children were killed and 400 taken prisoner. Gery recounts the events.
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19077
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Buranen describes the activities of the North Carolina Storytelling Guild.
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