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In the summer of 1999, 200 Special Olympics' delegations will gather in the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area for the Special Olympics World Summer Games. The state delegation consists of 114 athletes and 30 coaches. A roster of names and counties is included.
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4133
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Overhunting and increasing human population brought about the decline of the wild turkey across the country from millions to around 30,000 at the start of the 20th-century. The National Wild Turkey Federation sponsors Target 2000, a project that seeks to restore the wild turkey nationwide by the year 2000. By April, 1999, the state's wild turkey population will reach 100,000, with habitats in all 100 counties.
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4134
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Most people think of Louisiana when they hear the word crawfish. However, our own state has a North Carolina Crawfish Growers' Association and a small number of growers who produce around 100,000 pounds annually. Sterling Davenport has grown crawfish at his Millpond Crawfish Farm in Plymouth for eleven years, making his the state's oldest operating crawfish farm.
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From the late 1800s to the early 1900s, every tobacco farm had one - a pack house, or barn, a one-and-a-half to two-story building, where cured tobacco was brought for grading and tying before going to market. Today, replaced by mechanization and modern bulk curing barns, pack houses are reminders of bygone days. They dot the countryside with their leaning, weathered, sometimes ivy-covered, walls.
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QVC, the TV and Internet retailer, will build a one-million-square-foot distribution facility near Tarboro in Edgecombe County. It will be the company's fourth and largest distribution center. Target date for completion is June 2000. The $70 million project will add over 1,000 jobs to the county's workforce. In 1998, QVC shipped over 62 million packages from its other distribution centers.
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In 1837, Mike Harmon's ancestor, James Cash Goodwin, left England to seek his fortune in America as a weaver. His ship sank, but he saved his family's weaving patterns. Today Harmon is a sixth generation weaver, continuing a weaving tradition of over two centuries. The Buffalo Creek Weavers in Ashe County weave bedspreads on a century-old loom. The rare colonial patterns on the spreads date back to the early 1700s.
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North Carolina is recognized nationally for historical preservation. Currently over 300 preservation projects are underway statewide. Some, such as New Bern's Tryon Palace and grand plantation homes, are preserved as historical sites. Other structures, like downtown storefronts, mill villages and mills, schools, church buildings, and commercial office buildings are preserved not only for their historical value but also their utilitarian value as offices, cafes, shops, and condominiums.
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At the start of the 20th-century, over a million bushels of oysters were harvested annually in the state. Pollution, over-harvesting, and silty runoffs from coastal construction reduced harvests to 55,000 bushels yearly in the 1990s. Jim and Bonnie Swartzenburg are among a number of oysters farmers seeking to restore the state's oyster culture.
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Fiberglass has generally replaced wood as the main boatbuilding material. Still, in a few areas in Hyde County, like Gull Rock and Lake Landing, people like Mike Mullen and Robert Ross carry on the wooden boatbuilding tradition, building a few new boats and restoring the classic old ones.
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4532
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Arthur R. Currin, retied deputy sheriff of Granville County, fought against moonshiners for over thirty years. Currin recounts some of his experiences in catching moonshiners and destroying stills. In one story he recounts how, as a teenager, he helped his father, also a deputy sheriff, track moonshiners.
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Duplin County, incorporated on April 7, 1750, is marking its 250th year with a year-long celebration, including a historical play. Raynor, who is an artist, writer, and Duplin County native, discusses her home county.
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Dunn native William C. Lee is known as the \"Father of the Airborne.\" Having seen paratroopers in foreign countries, General Lee worked hard during the 1930s and 1940s to convince the U.S. military to develop a fighting paratrooper program. He was successful. On the night of June 5, 1944, 10,000 paratroopers of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions parachuted into France at the start of the Normandy Invasion. General Lee was not among them, having suffered a heart attack in April, but as each trooper jumped, he shouted, \"Bill Lee!\"
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The wild horses on Shackleford Banks, just off the coast of Carteret County, have survived there for 400 years. They are the descendants of horses brought by Spanish explorers. These tough animals have endured hurricanes, summer heat, insects, and a meager diet. Each year they are rounded up to take a count of the herd and to take blood samples to monitor diseases.
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When a hurricane strikes, power lines often go down, endangering persons who may come near them and disrupting vital communication links and public services. To protect their lines and customer services during future storms, the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation (BEMC) will bury its lines. A grant of $6.2 million will help relocate 88 miles of power lines underground in four Brunswick County coastal communities.
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When Walter Hinshaw retired from the yarn business, he thought he was through with it. However, a trip to the dumpster five years ago started him on a new career. Hinshaw brought back strands of rope which he soon twisted into a doll, called a Dumpster Doll. Since then he has made over 7,000 and given away 6,000. Popular across North Carolina, the dolls have found their way to twenty-five other states and several European and African countries.
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