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Three artists and an art gallery, all from the North Carolina Piedmont, are profiled. They are David E. Doss, Forsyth County; Sherry Little Perini, Greensboro; Pencie Cardwell, King; and the 2ArtChick gallery, which is run by Judi Kaster and Anne Wilson in Greensboro.
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On October 3, 2000, the literary world will mark the 100th birthday of author Thomas Wolfe of Asheville, who died in 1938. Three friends and acquaintances - Gladys Coates, Marnie Polk Ross, and Wilma Dykeman - share memories of this literary giant.
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One of the strongest influences on the young Thomas Wolfe was his teacher, Margaret Rose Roberts. Wolfe attended the North State Fitting School in Asheville from 1912 to 1916. It was there that Roberts nurtured his writing talent and opened the world of fine literature to him.
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October 3, 2000, marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of author Thomas Wolfe in Asheville. Among the events commemorating Wolfe's centenary are the release of a new postage stamp, publication for the first time of the uncut manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel under its original title, O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life, and various events in Asheville and at his alma mater in Chapel Hill.
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Greensboro Artist William Mangum captures the heritage of the state in a book he calls Carolina Preserves. Recognizing that a way of life was fast disappearing, Mangum sought a way to combine stories and images of the state's heritage. He asked forty-eight North Carolinians to write essays discussing what influenced their lives, work, and spiritual centers. Mangum then created individual art work to accompany the writings. The book took three years to complete and contains 130 paintings.
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Thousands of ships have met disaster off North Carolina's Outer Banks. The authors describe the fate of three lost in the 19th-century: the HURON, METROPOLIS, and the CRISSIE WRIGHT.
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Four hundred million years ago Pilot Mountain existed as an ocean beach before upheavals created its mountain chain. First surveyed in 1751, the mountain passed through several interesting owners before the state purchased it in 1968. It became North Carolina's fourteenth state park. Each year over 400,000 visitors enjoy its spectacular views and stunning quartz pinnacle that rises 1,400 feet above the valley floor.
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Collene Karcher practices a dying art - stone carving. Initially, she wanted to be a painter but decided to work in stone. She was 23 before she found a master stone carver and apprenticed under him. She has been carving for the past 17 years; her studio is near Sylva. She has exhibited in galleries in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Asheville, and has assisted with the restoration of the Texas, Ohio, and Michigan state capitol buildings.
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Besides the Eastern Cherokees, who are a federally recognized tribe living in North Carolina, the state also recognizes six other tribes. They are the Coharie, Haliwa- Saponi, Lumbees, Waccamaw-Sioua, Meherrin, and Indians of Person County. Currently six other groups are seeking recognition as Indian tribes.
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The Balsam Mountain Inn, a resort hotel at Balsam; the Richmond Hill Inn, a grand Victorian mansion in Asheville; the Holly Inn, a Pinehurst retreat; and the First Colony Inn, a coastal inn at Nags Head, all treasured landmarks, have been restored and returned to their former glories.
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Powwows were created by Plains Indians in the early 20th-century as a celebration of community pride and identity. The concept soon spread to other Native Americans around the nation. North Carolina Indians adopted it during the 1960s. A listing of powwows in the state is included.
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The Pee Dee Indians vanished from the Sandhills in the 1400s and their culture lay buried beneath cornfields in Montgomery County until 1937, when the state recognized the value of the site and purchased it. Excavated for nearly fifty years by Joffre Coe, the Town Creek Indian Mound is the only North Carolina Historic Site devoted exclusively to Native American history. The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
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While a large Lumbee Indian population lives in and around the town of Pembroke in Robeson County, the people are not interested in turning their culture into a tourist attraction. Still there is much to see and learn in the town. Martin describes a day tour of the city.
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The nation's two largest political parties share their names with two North Carolina communities, Democrat in Buncombe County and Republican in Bertie County. While one expects Democrat to be full of Democrats, it doesn't work that way in Republican, which is also full of Democrats. Of the 859 voters there, only 54 are registered Republicans. Tomlin recounts interesting anecdotes about the towns.
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Stretching across the Atlantic Coastal Plain from Florida to New Jersey are around 500,000 elliptical depressions known as Carolina bays. Over half of them are found in eastern Carolina. The bays are a land feature that exist nowhere else in the world. No one knows how they were formed. Some have water; others are dry. Lake Waccamaw is the largest of the bays, being about five miles long.
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