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Located on Queen Street in historic Beaufort, the Beaufort Grocery Company is one of the best restaurants for fine dining on the coast. Owned by Charles and Wendy Park, the eleven-year-old establishment features a variety of dishes from Indo-Asian to down-home Carolina. Casual elegance and fine food attract locals and tourists alike.
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The actors are not superstars. The budgets are often shoestring. Yet the creators of independent films within the state and without produce bold, original, and audacious shorts, features, and documentaries on topics Hollywood often avoids. Many independent films are showcased at the state's film festivals. Comer profiles the DoubleTake Film Festival at Durham's Carolina Theater, the Cucalous Film Festival in Wilmington, and the RiverRun International Film Festival in Brevard.
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H. H. and C. S. Brimley, immigrant English boys, came to Raleigh in 1880. Herbert became an outstanding taxidermist and worked for the Museum of Natural Science for sixty years, fifty-one as curator and director. Clement was an entomologist for the Agriculture Department and published the first catalog of insects in the South, The List of Insects of North Carolina. The Brimleys were the state's most influential naturalists, whose work left a lasting mark on the state. They are remembered in an exhibit at the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh.
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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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Known as Company Shops until the railroads left in 1886, the town changed its name to Burlington. The economy next depended on textiles with the Glencoe Mill, 1880-1954, and Burlington Industries since 1923. Family businesses are old, some dating back to 1910. The nostalgic can find historic sites, including a 1910 carousal. The town is also home to Elon College. Burlington experienced a 12 percent population growth in the 1990s to 44,000; location between the Research Triangle and the Piedmont Triad was a contributing factor.
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There is a mystery on the Tryon Palace grounds. Where was the palace's original garden? There are three maps of it prepared by Claude Joseph Southier in the 18th-century, but they are contradictory. One, the Miranda Map of 1783, was lost and did not surface until 1991 in Venezuela. Using maps, historical documents, and dirt, an archaeological team from East Carolina University is working to solve the mystery. A 1999 north lawn dig eliminated that area as the possible site. The team will return in the summer of 2000 for a dig on the south lawn.
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Airlie Gardens in Wilmington passed through several owners, and each added his special touch. Once visited only by the social elite, the gardens opened to the public when W.A. Corbett purchased them in 1947. Home to the 150-year-old Airlie live oak and other Southern flora, Airlie Gardens almost fell prey to developers. They were saved through the efforts of C. Bruce Williams, who helped the New Hanover County Commissioners purchase them from the Corbett family in 1999 for $10.5 million. The gardens are currently under restoration.
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North Carolina is home to a number of small publishing companies, including Coastal Carolina Press, McFarland & Company, and Algonquin Books. These and other local publishers are becoming a force in the book world. The emphasis is on quality. Books generally have small runs, but some, like Gap Creek, run to 600,000. Titles are those New York publishers don't consider profitable, like The Volcano Registry; Japanese Baseball, A Statistical Handbook; and The Greek Filmography.
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There are around 200 newspapers in the state. About 37 percent are privately owned. The News Reporter in Whiteville is 104 years old and has seen three generations sit at the editor's and publisher's desks. The paper is a survivor. Of the eleven Columbus County newspapers in existence between 1878 and 1908, only the Reporter remains. In 1954, the newspaper shared the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Service with the Tabor City Tribune. The papers courageously investigated the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ray Hayworth, a High Point native, spent fifteen years as a major league baseball player with the Detroit Tigers and Brooklyn Dodgers. He started in 1926 and retired as an active player in 1945. One of baseball's best photographs shows Hayworth tagging Babe Ruth out at home plate during a game in 1934. At age 96, Hayworth is the last living teammate of Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ty Cobb.
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North Carolina has a rich musical heritage. There is definitely something for everybody. Symphonic music is heard in smaller towns as well as larger ones. Seven opera companies perform across the state. Composers, such as Robert Ward, create new compositions. Lovers of the blues can hear the music of Scott Ainslee, Etta Baker, and George Higgs. Bluegrass lovers can find a wealth of musicians playing across the state including bands like Molasses Creek and the Shady Grove Band.
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Many well-known bands played in North Carolina towns during the Big Band era, when dances were often held in tobacco warehouses. Two towns were notable, but for different reasons. Rocky Mount was the hometown of famous bandleader Kay Kyser and the site of two big annual dances, the June-German Ball and the Gallopade Spring Festival. Ahoskie was the incubator of a big band. It was here that Bob Crosby, Bing's younger brother, assembled his band in 1935, polishing it with daily performances for six weeks before hitting the big band circuit.
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Curtis Ingram of Thomasville has a dream - to create a North Carolina Music Hall of Fame to honor the music and memory of the state's musicians. Although the hall incorporated in 1994 and received a $50,000 legislative grant in 1997, there is still no building in which to put the hall. Organizers hope fund-raisers and more publicity will generate funds to build the hall in 2001. The first seven inductees of the hall were inducted on September 25, 1999. They are Kay Kyser, Charlie Daniels, Billy Scott, Victoria Livengood, Loonis McGlohon, Bill Griffin, and the Chairmen of the Board beach band.
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Western Carolina traditional country and mountain music singers Scott and Eleanor Cooper Wiseman performed under the names Lula Belle and Scotty. For almost 30 years from the 1930s to the 1950s, they were a mainstay of the \"National Barn Dance\" radio program, performing traditional music and their own compositions. Wiseman's most famous composition is \"Have I Told You Lately That I Love You.\" This singing duo brought Appalachian music into mainstream American culture.
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From the 1920s through 1940s, Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were hotbeds for student orchestras. A number of orchestra members went on to fame during the Big Band era, including bandleaders Kay Kyser, Hal Kemp, and Johnny Long, and John Scott Trotter, who was Bing Crosby's musical director and arranger, and Skinny Ennis, who led Bob Hope's radio orchestra.
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