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35488
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The price for this piece of property in Hamilton can be measured in value, partly because of the Darden Hotel’s speculative illustrious connections with the Civil War. The price tag can be measured also in worth, because of this mandate by city officials: the owner must maintain the historic landmark as a restaurant or inn, not a private residence.
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35613
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Among what the Outer Banks was known for, Dean added to the list its saltwater fishing areas. To guide the fishing aficionado to a quality saltwater fishing experience, the author offered tips for best inlets, lodging, times of year and day, transport modes, and attire.
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Columbus County’s Hotline employees listened to and offered solutions for a myriad of issues, from crisis level to everyday. The director, labeling the service as “reflective listening,” revealed the qualification process involved 30 plus hours of community college training courses. From their service’s quality, can be inferred the employees, mostly volunteer, live up to this statement by Carl Rogers: “Listening, rightly done, is the most important thing you can do for a person.”
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What is uncommon about this dealership is the lot’s vehicles: fork lifts. What else uncommon about this company: how it came to be, with origins stretching back to 1918 and W.L. Gregory. As it’s revealed, Poole’s great-uncle, in serving the town’s need for road contractors, would pave the way for a company that recently celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary.
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5961
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Walter Perkins, founder of Hatteras Hammocks in Greenville, proves the old adage \"that work can be fun\" and a profit made at the same time. Paget discusses how a hammock is made and how the talented, fun-loving weavers work in an old tobacco warehouse.
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35512
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Treasures found in Williamsburg and Charleston were expected. What was a pleasant surprise to A.G.L. Hellyer, a horticultural journalist mentioned by the author, was the Orton Plantation, which Wakefield boasted as offering the most beautiful garden in North Carolina. How the lower Cape Fear area and its people contributed to its creation, this was disclosed in the discussion of Brunswick County’s development, pre and post-Colonial days.
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35576
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High Yield Forestry found a yield not measured by lumber, and benefitted more than employees in this industry. The yield was measured also in fowl bagged and birds spotted, the benefactors local hunters and birdwatchers.
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35527
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Progress for its county and seat could be perceived as inevitable. The county named for the last Royal Governor considerably contributed to Revolutionary and Confederate War efforts. Its development was continually impacted by the Roanoke River, which spurred the establishment of a Weyerhaeuser company plant. As for recent progress, education’s advancement beyond the public education level was assured in a community college opening in the early 1970s.
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5969
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On May 21, 1957, the North Carolina House passed Bill No. 305, which established \"The Old North State\" as the official state toast. Hedrick discusses the history of the toast - how it came to be written; the author, Mrs. Henry C. Martin; and Mrs. Mary Burke Kerr, the person who set it to music.
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35483
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Advice was dispensed by the author and her expert sources, including a professor from the University of North Carolina’s Institute of Marine Sciences. Examples of their tips were collection times, places (e.g. Shackleford Banks), care, and identification. To highlight their worth, commonly defined in souvenir status, the author noted other purposes, ranging from containers to decorations, from coinage to dye source.
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This article dated itself in the equipment and tools recommended: tape recorder, pen, and paper. However, historians using digital tape recorders and laptops can still gather practical advice from this former head of ECU’s Folk Life Archive about collecting folklore and local history.
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5976
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Patterson takes the reader back to a colonial kitchen among the tryvets, spyettes, chauldrons, and gibcrokes, where cooks prepared \"possum laced with potatoes, Hopping John, and a frothy drink called Syllabub.\" Readers will find the kitchen and utensils quite different from those of today.
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35557
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The need for electricity was pressing—twofold more every seven years for rapidly growing areas. The problems contributing to the crisis: shortage of fossil fuels and residents’ reluctance to have electric generating station in their backyard. Westinghouse Electric Company, coupled with Offshore Power Systems, proved the crisis could be averted, the problems were not insurmountable. Their solution for anyone seeking an alternative fuel source and/or not wanting generating stations within sight: nuclear power plants offshore.
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35609
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The profile for this famous son of Wilson County, recently elected as lieutenant governor, highlighted several areas of his life, primarily those involved with his political career. One was personal (delegate work for the National Grange Youth Conference led to meeting his wife). Another was professional (original career goal: taking over the family’s dairy farm). The last was civic (introduction to public service: college director for the Democratic National Committee).
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Jim Hunt of Wilson County, North Carolina's first full-time lieutenant-governor, is profiled.
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