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The AIA Triangle Chapter serves over 600 members from central North Carolina counties. The AIA Triangle Design Award, a juried competition, recognizes member architects for design excellence. Judges for the 2006 competition were Boston-based architects. The nine winners, selected from eighty-four entries, were divided into four Honor Awards and five Merit Awards. Projects designs must be developed in the Research Triangle, but the project can be carried out in any area of the country.
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After closing two-and-a-half years for expansion and renovation, the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium reopened in May 2006. Lea discusses the renovation project and describes exhibits in the mountain, Piedmont, coastal plains, and ocean galleries. The simulated environments have been praised as being indistinguishable from the real thing. Of the three state aquariums, the one at Pine Knoll Shores is the only one with access to natural seawater for the exhibit tanks.
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Captain Horatio Sinbad is North Carolina's only officially commissioned privateer. He dreamed of being a pirate when he saw the movie Treasure Island at the age of eight and later ran away from home at sixteen to join the crews of sailing ships in the Caribbean. He legally changed his name to Sinbad twenty-seven years ago. He built the ship he sails, the MEKA II, by hand, and it is his only home. The first Meka went down in a hurricane 100 miles off Norfolk, and Sinbad spent nine hours in the water before rescue. Sinbad is the reason the Americas' Sail 2006 is coming to the waters off Carteret County in the summer of 2006. He won a race in the Americas' Sail 2002 in the waters off Jamaica and won the right to choose the port for the next sailing competition. He chose Beaufort for his home port.
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The new Museum of the Albemarle seeks to convey and instill the customs and values of the people who settled and sustained the Albemarle region. The four-story 50,000-square-foot building draws upon the historic Outer Banks United States Life Saving Service buildings for its design. The museum began in 1967, and the new building opened in April 2006. Lea discusses the design of the building, the people who made it happen, and the exhibits.
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Wineries are growing in North Carolina. In 2001, fifteen or so were producing wines. By 2006, the number of wineries had grown to fifty-three. They range from the grandeur of Biltmore Estate to cottage operations like Hanover Park. A number of wineries like Shelton, RayLen, Childress, and Westbend, have put the state on the national wine scene with award-winning wines.
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In this article Leutze continues his examination of the project to develop a mega seaport just above Southport. The port will be four times as large as the current one at Wilmington and rival Charleston, South Carolina, and Norfolk, Virginia. The new port will handle two million containers a year and have space for four ships to dock at a four-thousand-foot structure. He gives an in-depth look at the issues involving the planned super port. One issue is the needed cooperation between North and South Carolina, the two states that will be mightily affected by the international port.
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Musician, composer, studio owner, and engineer, Durham native Willie Hill has been creating music since his early teens. His music is strongly melodic, rhythmically intricate, and atmospheric. He took up the guitar when he was twelve years old and got his first gig when he was fifteen. At nineteen he was playing with The Communicators. He wrote “One Chance,†which was a hit single for the group in 1974 and later started his own record label, Joy Records, in 1984. Hill discusses his life and his music.
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The town of Warrenton in Warren County has preserved the best of its grand homes over the years. Lea describes Raleigh residents Charlie and Judy Edwards' search to find a historic house to restore. They eventually settled on the Warrenton's historic Arrington-Alston House, circa 1851, a classic Greek revival residence attributed to master builder Jacob Holt.
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In the early days of the 20th-century, the Cape Fear River did not have dams. Commercial traffic could reach Fayetteville and the fish could go as far as Durham. Dams and locks were built later to provide electric power and facilitate boat travel. For the past 70 years migrating fish have been prevented from going beyond Dam No. 1. Leutze examines a proposal to eliminate Lock and Dam No. 1 and possibly Nos. 2 and 3. While beneficial to the fish, the removal has implications for the city of Wilmington.
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North Carolina native Riley Baugus is a fine old-time musician who reveres the music of the Southern Appalachians. The first instrument he mastered was the fiddle, followed by the guitar and banjo. Baugus was one of the artists who had an important role in recreating the 19th-century music heard on the soundtrack of the movie, COLD MOUNTAIN.
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Franklin Street and Rosemary Street link downtown Chapel Hill from the famous 100 block of Franklin westward to the edge of Carrboro at Merritt Mill Road. Lea discusses new buildings and plans now in place for a number of mixed-use residential developments and one luxury hotel that will transform this area into a classy downtown.
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Riley Baugus is a native North Carolinian who reveres the music of the Southern Appalachians. In this second part of van Vleck's conversation with Baugus, the two men discuss the banjo player's progress after high school, his work as a welder, and the importance of his work on the movie COLD MOUNTAIN.
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Greg Hatem, Raleigh developer, entrepreneur, and downtown resident, is managing partner of Empire Properties. Food and historic preservation are key elements in his successful renovation and adaptive reuse of over forty-one downtown buildings. More are in the planning stage, including a new hotel to accompany the Marriott under construction as part of the new Raleigh civic center. Lea describes how Hatem got started in business and some of the buildings and their new uses.
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Lutze discusses fish faming and its impact on coastal North Carolina.
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Midway Plantation in Knightdale was built on a 1739 land grant from Lord Granville, and the property has remained in the Silver family for seven generations. The plantation house sat on what was the old Tarborough Road, which has become a major highway in 2005. Highway I-540 is encroaching nearby. To save their 4,000-square-foot home, the family moved the house and its five outbuildings to a new location. Lea discusses the relocation process.
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