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Wilbur Hardee's first venture into the fast food business was Hardees, which he later sold to Jim Gardner. The Greenville resident's second venture was launched in 1963 and named Little Mint. Quinn discusses Hardee's newest restaurant chain, which now has grown to thirty-five in North and South Carolina.
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5946
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Donald Leary, better known as M. Charles, is one of the Outer Banks's most sought after land and seascape artists. Fearing discusses Leary's life and paintings, which number 2,500 since 1954.
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5947
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Novelist Ovid Williams Pierce, faculty member in the English Department at East Carolina University, is featured in this month's NEW EAST profile.
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Perdue Farms is a national leader in chicken production. Roberts discusses the history of the company and its planned move into northeastern North Carolina. The move will include 150growers tending 300 broiler houses. The company will construct a $1.5-million feed mill near Cofield, a $1-million office building and hatchery near Ahoskie, and a $6-million processing plant which will serve the seven-county area.
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5949
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Beaufort in Carteret County is the state's fourth oldest town. Faulkner discusses the town's history and architecture. A walking tour map identifying historic sites and a map of the town plan from 1713 are included.
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Railroads across eastern North Carolina were a vital supply link for Confederate forces during the Civil War. Price describes the adventures and challenges of riding the trains during the turmoil of war.
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Where the Wright Brothers once flew, hang gliding, enthusiastically called \"skysurfing,\" has emerged as an exciting new sport. Elliot discusses the sport's popularity and the hang glider's inventor, NASA scientist Dr. Francis M. Rogallo.
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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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The Civil War Ironclad Monitor sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras on December 31, 1862. Griffin discusses the triumphs and tragedies of this famous ship and the discovery of the shipwreck in August 1973.
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Halifax is the site of the first documented vote for American independence from England. It was cast by the Fourth Provincial Congress convened there on April 4, 1776. Faulkner discusses the history of the town and the buildings under restoration there.
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Blackburn discusses the Lowry Gang, a notorious band of murderers and thieves who plundered and ravaged Robeson County in the decade after the end of the Civil War.
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Thousands of North Carolinians take great delight in Charles Whedbee's books about the Outer Banks. In this NEW EAST interview, Blansfield talks with Whedbee about his childhood days at Nags Head, his writing, and his deep ties to the people and legends of the Outer Banks.
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Anthropologist Dr. John Gregory Peck discusses the history of Oriental and the changes, including the increase in tourism and the growing population of retirees, that affect the way people in this coastal community live.
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Zachery Taylor Koonce is a Beaufort County poet who \"turns the legends and lore of his tidewater homeland into brilliant new verse.\" Williams discusses Koonce's life and poetry. Examples of the poet's work, such as \"Roanoke's White Deer\" and \"On Old Tobacco Barns,\" are included in the article.
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Merchants Millpond, located in Gates County, is beautiful, unspoiled land that is soon to become a state park. The area is described by Sierra Club members from Greenville as having \"wild beauty, primeval stillness and grandeur, eerie bird calls, gnarled trees, and rippling reflections.\" Patterson discusses how the land was acquired and how the state will use it.
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