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Two elaborate, privately owned hunt clubs, the Currituck Shooting Club at Nags Head and the Whalehead Club at Corolla, are reminders of waterfowl hunting times that began in 1857 and lasted into the 1980s. Both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Currituck Club is the oldest active hunt club in North America. The Whalehead Club is now a museum and is owned by Currituck County.
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When Ken Walker was nine years old in 1970, he started selling his family's farm produce. Today, he owns Ken's Produce in Wake County. In 1991, he carved a few Jack-o-lanterns at his store. Around 150 people came by to see them. Over the following years he carved more, and the crowds that came to see the lighting grew larger. In 1998, over 10,000 people came during the two-night lighting. In 1999, family and friends will carve and light over 200 Jack-o-lanterns.
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Occurring against the background of World War I, the great influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 is one of the least known events in U.S. history. Yet in ten months it killed more Americans than any war. High Point was especially hard hit with ten percent of the population, 1,200, people, infected. A number of these later died.
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Falcon in Cumberland County is small in numbers, with a population of only 369, but large in faith and service to others. The Pentecostal Holiness Church was founded there on January 31, 1911, in the Octagon Tabernacle. Religious camp meetings began in 1900 and continue to this day. An idea for an orphanage originated from a 1908 camp meeting. The Falcon Orphanage, now the Falcon Children's Home, still operates.
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One of the most enterprising individual's in the state's history was Ocracoke native Stanley Wahab. Leaving the island to get a higher education and to make his fortune, Wahab returned in the 1930s to bring Ocracoke out of its isolation. Among the numerous things he did were building Wahab Village, the light plant, and ice house; building modern hotels, motels, and cottages; financing the Ocracoke- Hatteras ferry and bus line; and establishing a flying service between Manteo and Ocracoke.
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In 1995, Jean Dugan was elected principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokees. She is the first woman to hold the position. Dugan restructured the tribal government and established stringent financial controls. Her predecessor was impeached on charges of misusing funds. In the fall 1999 election, she was upset in her bid for reelection.
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Chatham County native Mildred Cotton Council, known to legions of hungry people as \"Mama Dip,\" is an institution on Chapel Hill's Rosemary Street. There in her restaurant she has prepared her own style of Southern cooking since 1976. She has written a cookbook, Mama Dip's Kitchen, markets her own line of products, and has appeared on national television.
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Eleanor Newton Gillette grew up in Farmville in Pitt County. Realizing that the scenes of her childhood might one day be gone, either through new development or neglect, Gillette began twelve years ago to photograph such vanishing things as old barns, country stores, and abandoned homes.
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Macon County is the seventh fastest-growing county in the state. Between 1990 and 1998, the people moving into the county accounted for over 21 percent of its population growth. Most came from the larger cites of the North and South. Such growth fuels service and retail sectors, which helps to offset the decline in the county's manufacturing jobs. While some residents fear the influx of people, the prohibition against building on the county's 152,000 acres of national forest helps to control population sprawl.
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The Gorges is the state's newest park and the first created west of Asheville. The 6,800-acre park in Transylvania County, established in April 1999, boasts spectacular gorges, breathtaking waterfalls, and deep forests. Over 1,000 plant species, 80 of them rare, flourish in this environment. Ecologists consider the protection of this area as significant as the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park in 1926.
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A number of pharmacists are adding an apothecary technique from years past to their offerings - compounding their patients' medications. Compounding gives the pharmacist options, such as customizing dosages, eliminating preservatives, flavoring the medication, and providing a number of ways to deliver the medication, such as gels or sprays.
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No one knows why the Roanoke Island colonists mysteriously disappeared. A number of theories abound as to the fate of the Lost Colony, including destruction from a hurricane; drought in the early stages of the colony as evidenced by a study of tree rings; massacre by hostile Native Americans; and attack from the Spanish who were at war with England.
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Conceived by North Carolina State University basketball coach C. Everett Case, the Dixie Classic was a three-day, eight-team basketball tournament extravaganza, featuring North Carolina teams against other national basketball powers. Begun in the then new Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh in December 1949, the tournament lasted another twelve years and was a tremendous success. The Dixie Classic was canceled in 1960, after several players were involved in a point shaving scandal.
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With four acres under roof, Asheville's Biltmore Estate is the country's largest private home. When Christmas at Biltmore began in 1976, $50,000 was spent on decorating, and a few thousand visitors came. Today over $1 million is spent on decorations, and over 200,000 come to look at them between November 6 and January 2. Among the decorations are 38 Christmas trees, some 40 feet high; 300 wreaths; and 4 miles of garland.
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Running the Union blockade of Wilmington during the Civil War was a risk. On September 26, 1864, Marie DeRosset and daughter Gabrielle set sail aboard the Lynx, seeking to reach Marie's malaria-stricken husband in Nassau. Union ships attacked the LYNX, severely damaging the vessel. Mother and daughter barely escaped. Gabrielle DeRosset lived the rest of her life in Wilmington, becoming known as a musician and historian. She died in 1936.
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