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In the 1980s, trafficking in crack cocaine and other criminal activities plagued Charlotte's Wilmore neighborhood. The tight-knit residents knew they had to act. In the 1990s, plans for a neighborhood community center took shape. A local nonprofit agency called Charlotte Green approached the residents with the idea of developing a community garden, where neighbors could cultivate vegetables, herbs, flowers, and, most importantly, strong bonds that would help bring the neighborhood back to what it once was. In 2006, there are seven community gardens in Charlotte, and the Wilmore Community Garden, started in 1991, is still growing strong. The project cultivates more than vegetables as members of the older generation share their oral histories with their younger neighbors.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 6, Nov 2006, p118-120, 122, 123, il Periodical Website
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The plight of bald eagles, manatees, and whales is well-known, but how many individuals know of endangered species like the Tunis sheep, Milking Devon, Tamworth hogs, or Pineywoods cattle. These are farm animals that were once staples of small family farms for hundreds of years. Some of them, like the Pineywoods cattle, were brought to America by Spaniards in the 1500s. Several breeds of American livestock have disappeared altogether. Farlow discusses the work of the American Breeds Livestock Conservancy. The group organized in Vermont in 1977 and later relocated to Pittsboro in 1985. The organization works to preserve the once-thriving animals for future generations. ALBC has three goals: research rare breeds, provide assistance to farmers and livestock breeders, and educate the public about these disappearing animals.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 12, May 2006, p186-188, 190, 192, il Periodical Website
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Artist Dan Nance paints historical renderings of events in the Charlotte area and has been doing so for twenty years. His collection has been reunited for the first time at the Charlotte Museum of History for an exhibit titled: “Charlotte’s Road to Revolution: Paintings by North Carolina Artist Dan Nance.”
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 84 Issue 10, March 2017, p138-142,144, il, por, map Periodical Website
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A diverse array of wildflowers blooms in North Carolina's mountains from March through September. Setzer recounts her spring experiences trekking in the mountains, looking for wildflowers. The author includes a bloom chart categorizing wildflowers by month bloomed, color of blossom, and leaves.
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Dr. Shohreh Taavoni and her husband, Dr. Alan Kronhaus, have revived house calls, a practice that was common in the 19th- and early 20th-century. They call their business \"Doctors Making House Calls.\"
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 77 Issue 3, Aug 2009, p78-80, 82-83, il Periodical Website
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Charlotte artist David Fesperman uses an unusual medium--aluminum cans--to create unique, geometric ornaments. He works without machinery, even though he uses a metal pattern for cutting, so that he can guarantee that each creation is different.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 75 Issue 7, Dec 2007, p166-1668, 170, 172, il, por Periodical Website
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Describing five iconic cakes, Castle takes readers on a sweet trip from the mountains to the coast. Each tells a bit of the history of the region where it's prepared. They are the Dried Apple Stack Cake (Blue Ridge Mountains, Black Walnut Pound Cake with Old-Fashioned Penuche Frosting (Mountains and Foothills), Cheerwine Pound Cake (Piedmont), Muscadine Cake (Central NC, Sandhills, Coastal Plain, and Outer Banks), Fig Preserve Cake (Outer Banks).
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 9, Feb 2014, p124-128, il Periodical Website
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To sports fans across North Carolina and the nation, Woody Durham is the man with the familiar voice. For thirty-nine years, he has been the radio play-by-play man for basketball and football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 77 Issue 10, Mar 2010, p58-65, il, por Periodical Website
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Horse-drawn carriage drivers in Wilmington, lighthouse keepers and goose callers in Currituck, underwater archaeologists in Beaufort, aerial acrobats in New Bern, pirates on Hatteras Island, turtle conservationists throughout the state, captains on the Pamlico, and sand sculptors and wave riders on Wrightsville Beach: the unique nature of North Carolina's culture, history, and environment have allowed many to pursue unique careers and hobbies.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 8, January 2015, p82-88, 90, 92, 94, por, map Periodical Website
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In 1906, three doctors opened the Thermal Belt Sanatorium in Tryon for people suffering respiratory illnesses. The physicians soon discovered that more healthy people than ill ones were coming to Tryon for the climate, and they closed the sanatorium. In 1917, Carter Brown came from Michigan to explore the possibilities of opening an inn. He rented the sanatorium for two years as his residence, and in 1920, purchased and converted it into an inn. This year the structure, now known far and wide as the Pine Crest Inn, is celebrating a century of service. Jackson recounts the history of the inn from 1920 to 2006.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006, p148-150, il Periodical Website
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Vivian Howard’s restaurant, Chef & the Farmer, and TV show, A Chef’s Life, have helped boost Kinston’s local businesses.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 83 Issue 6, November 2015, p134-148, il, por, map Periodical Website
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"What goes around comes around. A mid-century collectable moves from the attic to the antique stores." Highly popular from the 1960s - 1980s, ceramic Christ trees are enjoying a recent resurgence.
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In the village of St. Helena in Pender County, Saints Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church is hanging on thanks to the devotion of its 3 remaining parishioners. The church and its congregation were the center of a small northern European agricultural community created by Hugh MacRae in 1905 near Burgaw, NC. The church was built in 1932 and was the only Russian Orthodox church in North Carolina. Today, the congregation is down to 3 members but they faithfully keeping their religious tradition alive.
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Zacharias’ definition of Hatteras Island: not just a barrier between the ocean and mainland; vulnerable to hurricanes and shipwrecks; Blackbeard’s visitation; site for Ocracoke Lighthouse. Island is also defined as a land rich with history. Hatteras’ place in state history was set during its days as Pilot Town, when residents navigated ships through Pamlico Sound’s shoals. Hatteras’ place in personal history can be seen in families such as Ballance and Howard, whose graveyards and ghost stories attesting lives going back as far as ten generations.
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David Moore, a professor at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, has been digging and scraping in an area between Marion and Morganton since 1986. He went first as a doctoral student at UNC hoping to prove that Native Americans had lived and farmed there in the 16th century. What lay beneath this culture was uncovered by his team of archaeologists in the summer of 2013--remains of the oldest European fort (1567) in the inland United States. McShane recounts what is known about the leader of the 120 Spanish soldiers, Juan Pardo, and what has been learned about the fort.
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Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 81 Issue 7, Dec 2013, p56-5860-62, 64, il, por Periodical Website
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