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Ralph Epperson is a rarity in the world of radio. He stills owns the station he founded, WPAQ, in 1948 in Mt. Airy, while nationwide a few companies own most of the stations. The station has a permanent format of bluegrass, gospel, and old-time mountain music, and its most popular show is the \"Merry-Go-Round,\" a weekly live music program. The show is the nation's third longest- running live music show. WPAQ is also one of the nation's top bluegrass stations.
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Organized by the Hickory Museum of Art, \"Chairs on Parade\" is a public art project that celebrates Hickory's best known product - furniture. Located around the town are 45 larger-than-life, artistically decorated dining room chairs. The chairs are over five feet tall and three feet wide and were painted by local artists.
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For those old enough to remember cherry smashes and milkshakes made with real ice cream, milk, and flavoring, and for young folks who want to experience that old-fashioned flavor, three soda shops in Pinehurst, Whiteville, and Burgaw provide the treats.
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Each summer upwards of 400 art connoisseurs, gallery owners, collectors, museum directors, and foundation heads converge on Penland in Mitchell County. They come for the Annual Benefit Auction, now in its 15th year, of works created at the world-renowned Penland School of Crafts. The auction raised $236,000 in 2000, and all the money supports Penland's programs and studies. Founded in 1929 by Lucy Morgan, the school has forty campus buildings and offers workshops in ten crafts.
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Crowders Mountain in Gaston County is unique. Small, standing around 1,625 feet, 500 million years old, and full of minerals, it has been both an economic commodity and natural treasure. In the 1970s it was threatened by strip- mining. Local citizens rallied and convinced the state to accept the peak as a state park. In October 1974 Crowders Mountain State Park became a reality. Over 300,000 people visited the part in 2000.
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Although long associated with Guilford and Alamance Counties, Quakers first started meeting in Perquimans County, the result of a visit from the Society's founder, George Fox, in November 1672. At one time Quakers met in seven meeting houses in the county. Today two remain. Piney Woods Friends Meeting, founded in 1794, is the oldest continuous meeting place for religious worship in the state.
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Finding a restaurant that offers real home cooking while traveling on the interstate is a chore, and most travelers opt for the nearest fast food place. However, real food is there if one knows where to look. Martin explores I-85 from High Point to Linwood, with stops at Mr. K's Family Restaurant in Archdale, Jimmy's BBQ in Lexington, and Backcountry Barbeque in Linwood.
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Western North Carolina has a number of spectacular waterfalls. Setzer profiles five of them: Crabtree Falls (Yancey County); Hooker Falls and Courthouse Falls (Transylvania County); Middle Falls (Graham County); and Tom's Creek Falls (McDowell County).
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When his father died at the start of the 20th century, W. B. Aydelette dropped out of school and began selling ice cream in Greensboro to help support his family. In the 1930s he added hot dogs to his menu at his restaurant Yum Yum Better Ice Cream and his fortune was made. The restaurant soon became a Greensboro institution. Now owned by Aydelette's son and run by his grandson, Yum Yum's sold over 440,000 hot dogs in 2000.
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At the start of the 20th century, drug store soda fountains were a gathering place, dispensing refreshments and providing a place for conversation. Over the years they have disappeared, partly because of fast food restaurants and shopping malls. Hudson describes one of the last, Boone Drug in Watauga County, where things are done as they were when the store opened in 1919.
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In the 1920s, North Carolina did not have a single county library. The Lexington and Thomasville Woman's Club set out to create one in Davidson County. Through their efforts and funds provided by philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the Davidson County Library opened on October 23,1928, the first public library in the state to open as a county library.
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For African American children seeking a secondary education in Vance County, the Henderson Institute was their only recourse. Founded in 1887 by missionaries from the Freedmen's Board of the United Presbyterian Church, the school provided both an academic and a vocational curriculum until the school closed in 1970, when the county integrated. Today the institute's remaining building is a historical museum of the school's history. In 1995, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Forrest Mendenhall has 48 years' experience as a professional auctioneer. He also has a North Carolina state auctioneering championship title and has been inducted into the state and national halls of fame for auctioneers. He is the founder of the Mendenhall School of Auctioneering in High Point, which over the past 33 years, has graduated hundreds of first-rate auctioneers.
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Fayetteville native Lynne Hinton, minister of the gospel and novelist, is profiled in this Our State article.
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Ever wonder what happened to your old school building after you graduated? Some schools continue on as educational institutions; some are torn down; some are refurnished, rejuvenated, and reinvented. Westbrook describes five which have found new lives as a theatre, inn, apartments for the elderly, apartments, and a municipal building.
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