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44326
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"A North Carolina basket maker turns tangles of vines into works of art." Living in a mountain home bordering North Carolina's Nantahala National Forest, Delia Fian is a basket maker who works with invasive species. Examples given are kudzu vines woven into back packs. mimosa tree bark into slippers, and privet bark into whimsical hats.
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44339
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The author notes a remarkable thing about Wilmington is its relationship to the sea. It is also clams many James Beard Award semifinalists and finalists such as Sunny Gerhart and Keith Rhodes.
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44390
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"For generations, a North Carolina family has propagated long lines of lilies and lotuses on the edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains." Niki Gibson has run the Perry's Water Gardens Nursery in the Cowee Valley near Franklin since 2010. Her grandfather Perry D. Slocum, a past president of the International Water Lily Society, left medical school to chase his botanical interests. His book, "Waterlilies and Lotuses" was published in 1996.
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44391
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Wildlife biologist Joe Madison tracks the red wolf population in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge. The Tuscarora of North Carolina considered this animal sacred. Madison has spent eight years as manager of the North Carolina Red Wolf Recovery Program. His office is in Manteo. On the horizon, a $25 million grant will fund underpasses for the red wolf on Highway 64.
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44324
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"Winston Salem's century old greenhouse returns to sparkling glory." Jon Roethling took over as Reynolda Gardens director in 2018. With assistance from Jim Smith, a Kentucky greenhouse consultant, original blueprints and a book, "A World of Her Own Making: Katherine Smith Reynolds and the Landscape of Reynolda", the restoration was completed and the site opened in the fall of 2024. Katherine Reynolds originally intended for the greenhouse to function as a public welcome center to the estate.
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44325
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Helene was the most destructive storm to hit the U.S. mainland since Katrina in 2005. The French Broad River crested at a record breaking twenty four feet in Asheville..
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44131
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"A new heritage trail reveals the soul of the mountain city." Stops on the recently unveiled Black Cultural Heritage Trail include the 1887 Allen High School, the Foundry Hotel, named for the historic steel mill, integral to Asheville's early growth and a group of entertainment venues known as the Chitlin Circuit.
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44130
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"Western North Carolina's rivers reveal a world of wonder, one peak underwater at a time." Aquatic biologist and co-creator of the Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail Luke Etchinson seeks to encourage more people to dunk their heads and explore water species between May and September. Unofficially, the trail covers over ten counties and nine rivers in Western North Carolina.
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44219
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This article discusses the ways in which corn is significant to various indigenous tribes in North Carolina. Nancy Strickland Chavis, a member of the Lumbee tribe, kick-started a project in which she and a few others helped other tribes reclaim their corn that had once been lost to them.
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43940
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Bill Smith, former chef at the celebrated Crook's Corner restaurant in Chapel Hill, retired in 2019. He recounts experiences in a recent revisit to Quebec Canada.
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43704
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A former North Carolina Plantation known as Snow Hill, now lies as land conservancy that was pioneered by two sisters, Delphine Sellars and Luclle Patterson. The two want this new beginning to resemble "a model for providing land to African American gardeners and farmers."
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"A pilot and novelist recalls his most memorable airborne misadventures." Clyde Edgerton talks about "lost bad" experience as an ROTC cadet in college, flying a Piper Cherokee140 small civilian aircraft/
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43893
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Columnist Vivian Howard, star of the former television series, A Chef's Life ponders her life's journey as regards collecting. Initial reference is given to an episode of the series featuring Clara Muriel Barwick and her salt and pepper shakers.
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43696
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Garden & Gun's 2022 Made in the South award winner, Elijah Leed, is nothing short of classical artisan. As the head of the Elijah Leed studio in Durham, NC, Elijah pilots his team in designing and building state-of-the-art furniture that is made to last for generations.
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43688
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Mike Hester, a Mebane, North Carolina native " has spent decades turning his family's farm into a into a hotbed of wild quail and champion birddogs."
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