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5834
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North Carolina's state parks are developed with historical as well as natural uniqueness. Taylor profiles several of these including Fort Macon, Hammocks Beach, and Pettigrew State Park.
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5835
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The Great Dismal Swamp, an area of history and mystery, sprawls across North Carolina's northeastern corner and southeastern Virginia. No one knows who discovered it or when. The author discusses historical events and persons connected with the swamp.
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5836
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Jesse Helms, North Carolina's newly elected Republican United States Senator, is profiled in this Guillory article.
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5837
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The village of Portsmouth, located on North Core Banks, was founded in 1753 and was once a bustling fishing village. Today it is empty - a village of deserted buildings and no residents. White describes life in the village as it used to be.
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5857
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During the winter and spring of 1971, Wilmington dealt with a racially tense situation. One Afro-American and one white person were killed; firemen were shot at when responding to fires. Sikes describes how Wilmington handled the situation.
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5858
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Dr. Wallace R. Wooles, Dean of the East Carolina University School of Medicine, describes what a medical school really is, what makes it tick, and what its components are.
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5859
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Jim Hunt of Wilson County, North Carolina's first full-time lieutenant-governor, is profiled.
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5860
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Cox Trailers, in Grifton, is well-known in the eastern United States. Leon O. Cox and his sons started the company before the turn of the century, and they built bean and tobacco harvesters, tobacco trucks, and farm wagons. Later boat trailers were added. It was the Cox Camper, added in 1963, that made the company a household word in the recreation field.
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5861
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On September 26, 1973, the DuPont Plant near Kinston established a new world industrial safety record of over 45,808,779 exposure hours without a disabling or lost-time injury. This was accomplished by 2,800 employees over a nine-and-a-half-year period. Employees received steak dinners and engraved silver bowls.
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5862
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Columbus County, formed in 1808 from parts of neighboring counties, is NEW EAST magazine's featured county of the month. Thompson discusses the history of the county and current economic conditions.
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5863
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Carteret County, located along the state's southeastern coast, is NEW EAST magazine's featured county of the month. Simpson discusses the history of the county and what attracts tourists.
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5864
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Carolina bays, thousands of shallow, elliptical depressions in the earth's surface, stretch from Georgia northward, with most being found in the Carolinas. Some bays have water; others are dry. Brooks describes a particular bay known as Black Lake in Bladen County that was reclaimed, restored, and renamed Bay Tree Lake.
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5865
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Walter Jones, who represents North Carolina's First District in the U.S. House of Representatives, has lived a political life. Prior to his current position, Jones was town councilman and later mayor of Farmville, his hometown; was a three-term Pitt County representative in the N.C. General Assembly; and later served in the State Senate. He was elected to Congress in 1966.
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5943
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Williams discusses the life and work of sculptor R. K. Harniman. Harniman has just completed carving a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh from a cypress tree. This particular tree was located in the Tar River swamp twelve miles west of Greenville and began growing in the year 1467, eighty-seven years before Raleigh was born. Harniman carved the statue in Raleigh.
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5944
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Scott recounts the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, an early battle of the Revolutionary War, fought on February 26, 1776. The battlefield is about 20 miles northwest of Wilmington, near Currie.
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