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The 1901 home of Dr. Manassa Thomas Pope, a prominent African American physician, businessman, soldier, and politician is being restored. The home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. When completed, the Pope House Museum will be \"the only historic house museum of an African American family in North Carolina.\"
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Liberty Hall, located in Kenansville, Duplin County, is one of the Cape Fear region's most well-known Greek revival homes. Built by the Kenan family in the early 19th-century, the home was deeded in 1963 to the Duplin County School Board and the Board of County Commissioners who formed the Liberty Hall Restoration Commission.
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Doug Marlette of Hillsborough is a political cartoonist whose sharp wit skewers political figures on the left and the right. He is also the creator of the popular cartoon strip \"Kudzu.\" Marlette is profiled in this METRO article.
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Tarboro was settled in 1732 and has been the county seat of Edgecombe County since 1741. It is a town rich in history. Tarboro and Boston are the country's only cities retaining town commons established by legislative act in 1760. The commons in Tarboro is surrounded by a forty-five block historic district. Lea discusses the history and architecture of the town and how Tarboro coped with the great flood produced by Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
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Hillsborough in Orange County has a dining scene that appeals to all tastes and includes Mexican, country cooking, and natural foods. Benz profiles Tupelo's, \"a perfectly pitched mix of Creole and owner Matt Carroll's inventive take on regional cuisine.\"
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Capt. Tim Barefoot, of Morrisville, is a professional fisherman and owner of Fishing Barefoot, a manufacturer of fishing equipment and supplies. He also designs many of the company's products and has devoted his life to studying game fish. Hadra discusses the company and the uniqueness of its products.
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John Davis is the executive director of the Raleigh-based North Carolina Forum for Research and Economic Education (NCFREE). The organization was created in 1983 by a large cross-section of business leaders and lawyers. Davis was hired the same year. The founders wanted to understand the political process in the state, who the people were that ran for, or held office, how they voted, who backed them, and what underlying trends might change the state's political dynamics. The results of Davis's work are published in THE ALAMANAC OF NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS, which is often called the bible of North Carolina politics. Davis rates highly for his political insight, information gathering, and ability to forecast trends.
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Smith discusses the International Spy Conference held in Raleigh. Among the speakers were Dr. Bruce Hoffman, the world's foremost expert on terrorism; Tom Kimmel, former FBI agent and grandson of Admiral Husband Kimmel, the commander at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; and Nigel West, respected author of twenty-six books on espionage and terrorism. Participants discussed terrorism and why it has become a global threat today.
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House calls by doctors were routine in the first third of the 20th-century. But with increasing demands on their services, doctors soon had to abandon the practice. Now a husband and wife team in Chapel Hill, Dr. Shohreh Taavoni and her husband Dr. Alan Kronhaus, have built a business around a return to this personal type of medical care. The business is called “Doctors Making Housecalls.†The physicians call on patients in homes, in managed-care facilities, and in offices where their patients work. Several hotels in the Research Triangle also call them when guests require care.
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Lea discusses the Roanoke Island Festival Park. The park, which had its beginnings in 1983, is located in Manteo on a 120-acre island and marsh in Dough Creek. The Elizabeth II, a replica of one of the ships that made the Roanoke Voyages, is docked there. Twenty-seven acres of the island are set aside for a museum complex, history center, art gallery, a settlement site where the life of soldiers and craftsmen who arrived on the Elizabeth II is interpreted, and an outdoor pavilion.
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No longer overshadowed by Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head golf courses, the North Carolina coast has come into its own as a prime golf destination. Golfers vacationing in the state will find great courses from the barrier islands of Brunswick County to Roanoke Sound. METRO MAGAZINE's editors and professional golfer panel picked the best private course, the best course, and the best holes they have ever played. Selections were made from nearly 100 courses and 1,800 holes.
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Van Vleck discusses the musical gifts of singer/songwriter Allyson Light, of Chapel Hill. Light is presently a sophomore at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She began writing her own tunes at the age of fourteen. Her most recent album, \"Looking Glass Conversations,\" reveals an artist who's coming into her own as a composer and performer. Light plans on staying with her music activities for “the foreseeable future.â€
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North Carolina refused to ratify the new Constitution in 1788, unless a list of rights for all citizens was added to it. To win over North Carolina and other states, James Madison sent twelve handwritten copies of the rights to the states; they were accepted. Today this list is known as the Bill of Rights. After the Civil War, the state's handwritten copy was stolen from Raleigh by a Union soldier and carried to Ohio. Jonsson follows the exciting events from the theft of the document in 1865 to a clever sting operation by federal law enforcement officials that recovered the historic paper in Philadelphia in 2003.
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Located on two acres off Raleigh's Fayetteville Street Mall, Two Progress Plaza, Progress Energy's new building, is the city's first new skyscraper in a decade. The 19-story mixed-used structure cost $100 million to build. METRO design editor Diane Lea discusses the fascinating details of the building in an in-depth study of this major new shape in downtown Raleigh.
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Metro Magazine
(NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 5 Issue 11, Nov 2004,
p52-56, 58-61, il
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Louis St. Lewis, METRO artist-at-large, discusses the art galleries along North Carolina's coast, including stops in Morehead City and Beaufort. Carteret Contemporary Art and Beaufort Fine Art were among the galleries visited.
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