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This article features citizen reports of sightings in the North Carolina wilderness. Among the sightings are stories of a golden eagle, bald eagle, wild boar, bottlenose dolphins, bears, and red fox.
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31143
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From May 16-26, Fayetteville hosts North Carolina’s largest festival this year to commemorate the centennial of the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. The festival features a weekend arts festival, a military air show, a general aviation show, an aviation exposition, and hot air balloons. There will also be celebrity speakers, including Cheri White, a world record hot air balloon pilot from North Carolina.
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The North Carolina State Grange, at work since the 1870s, continues its commitment to improving the quality of rural life through community service, legislative activities and youth leadership programs. The State Grange recently made a case that rural North Carolina and farm families in particular, are going through an economic depression. This article discusses some of their hardships and how Hyde County farmers are expanding their market.
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Located in Bertie County, four miles west of Windsor, Hope Plantation offers glimpses of late 18th- and 19th-century in eastern North Carolina as well as the life of its original owner, former North Carolina governor David Stone. The plantation’s centerpiece is the 1803 mansion, an architectural combination of Federal and Georgian architecture. June 14 is Hope Plantation’s 200th birthday and a special event will feature stories from descendants and former plantation residents.
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North Carolina hosts more military bases than any other state, including the Army’s Fort Bragg and the Air Force’s Pope Air Force Base. The electric system at the military bases is powered by Sandhills Utility Services, a utility company formed by four Touchstone Energy cooperatives. This article discusses how the electricity system was designed and developed, and the special electric requirements of military operations.
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Wilson Daughtry grows Mattamuskeet Sweet Onions at his Hyde County farm, Alligator River Growers, in eastern North Carolina’s “blacklands”. The flavor and texture of this sweet onion variety depends on the climate, weather and peat soil near Lake Mattamuskeet. The onion is high in demand due to its short growth period in June and July.
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Soft crabs, also known as “peelers,” shed their shells between April and September. Fishermen at Benny’s Seafood in Manns Harbor of the Outer Banks, North Carolina, describe the shedding process, and how they catch blue crabs using a male crab called a “jimmy”. The Manns Harbor soft crabs are harvested and sold to buyers throughout the Eastern shore.
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The North Carolina textile industry played an early role in the advancement of air conditioning when in 1906 the Carrier Corporation installed its first industrial-strength air conditioning system in Gaston County. Air conditioning in rural homes, however, did not become affordable until the late 1960s. During this time, North Carolina’s electric cooperatives began promoting window-mounted air conditioning units called the U-Mount.
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During the 1950s and 1960s in rural North Carolina, going to church was a weekly special event for all members of the family. During this time, there was no air conditioning and Sundays in August were different than today. Perry Comer, a pastor in Wadesboro, describes in detail what church was like without air conditioning and how people stayed cool.
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North Carolina benefits from having more than ten-thousand beekeepers, more than any state in the nation. The state also ranks among the top ten in number of beehives, and most of these belong to hobbyists with a passion for keeping bees. This article discusses the history of beekeeping, the importance of bees in pollination, and the production of honey.
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Benny and Annette Fountain recently opened Tarkil Branch Farm’s Homestead Museum in Duplin County, North Carolina. The museum is located on part of the working farm that has been in the Fountain family since 1912. The home of David and Ludie Fountain, Benny’s parents, showcases the preserved Dogtrot-style farmhouse from the 1830s and exhibits of farm life.
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On August 14, 2003, a series of equipment outages in the Midwest led to uncontrolled cascading outages of power transmission lines and generators serving North Carolina and other northern areas for up to fifty hours. Questions and answers about the power outage are provided in this article, as well as a discussion on operating procedures for massive outages.
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On the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers work on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a member of the organization, Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Internationale, flies an airplane across North Carolina and discusses how people can learn to fly at First in Flight Aviation at the Franklin County Airport. There are also fifty-five Be A Pilot flight schools in North Carolina.
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Greene County is in the first year of a four-year lease agreement with Apple Corporation that will provide laptop computers for every middle and high school student in the county system. The program called iTech is the first countywide one-on-one project of its kind in North Carolina, teaching students skills they can apply in the digital age. The vision of Green County leaders is to go wireless throughout the county, generate job growth, and draw high-tech business to the county.
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There are many legends and mysteries surrounding Hickory Nut Gorge in western North Carolina. The early settlers found gold, tso-lungh (a magical, legendary tobacco), legends of talking animals, the mysterious Little People who lived among the craggy peaks of the gorge, and ominous sounds of Rumbling Bald Mountain. This article describes these stories and relevant tourist destinations at the gorge, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure.
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