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Bernice Kelly Harris is one of thirty-one authors in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. Blackburn discusses her life and literary accomplishments.
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Located in Raleigh's downtown theater district, Cafe Luna is an Italian restaurant specializing in classic Tuscan fare. The restaurant opened in 1996 and turned a profit within four months. Cafe Luna focuses on the customer having a good meal, good conversation, and good wine and dessert.
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The Red Clay Ramblers, the state's celebrated mountain-and-roots string band, is marking thirty years of performing in 2002. Simpson, one of the band's original members, discusses the musical group's successes, performing, and fellowship over that interval.
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Ashby Frank of Lexington is a mandolin prodigy. Still a teenager, he has won top honors in several mandolin competitions, including the Galax, Virginia Old Fiddler's Competition in 1997 and 1999, as well as the one at the 1999 MerleFest. He has also released a critically acclaimed CD and toured nationally and internationally.
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Winston-Salem native George Hamilton IV has performed around the world for nearly fifty years. He was on his way to becoming a pop star but gave it up for his real love, country music. He is a member of the Grand Old Opry in Nashville and has received many music awards.
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Blind at birth, Robbinsville native Ronnie Milsap overcame adversity to rise to the top of the music field, with awards including a Grammy, Billboard, Cashbox, Country Music Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and Album of the Year. In 2002, Milsap will receive the American Foundation for the Blind's Helen Keller Achievement Award for his overall achievement level.
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5362
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Ahuja describes how to spend a perfect weekend on and around Lake Norman, the state's largest man-made lake, covering 32,500 acres and having 520 miles of shoreline. He discusses eateries and water activities.
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James Taylor's fame as a singer/songwriter is worldwide. In North Carolina his roots stretch back to Scottish immigrants in 1790 New Bern. Comer profiles the career of this musician whose song \"Carolina on My Mind\" has become \"the unofficial anthem of the state.\"
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Ten years before the outbreak of World War II, Charlotte was a town where many country and bluegrass musicians performed and perfected their styles before Nashville became \"the\" place to be. Davis discusses some of these musicians, including Charlie and Bill Monroe.
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Comer examines the lives of the Trantham family of Haywood County and the Cockman family of Catawba County, two families who are carrying their music, stories, and traditions into the twenty-first century.
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When Clyde Cooper opened Cooper's Barbecue on East Davis Street in Raleigh in 1938, he proclaimed it \"a good place to eat.\" Sixty-four years later that's still true. Jackson takes the reader inside the restaurant which still maintains the look and feel of an old-time barbecue joint in the shadow of modern, downtown Raleigh buildings.
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Most people remember George Vanderbilt as the builder of Biltmore Estate near Asheville. Less well-known is his influence on forest management in the nation. Surrounding his home were 125,000 acres of forest which he named Pisgah. Vanderbilt was determined that his woods would not be subject to a \"cut down and move on\" policy prevalent in the nation at that time. Ellis discusses Vanderbilt's vision of well-managed forests.
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5374
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Manns Harbor is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town was named for a German sea captain, Charles Mann. The Dare County town is known for its custom boatbuilding.
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Union Grove in Iredell County is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The community is the site of North America's oldest running old-time fiddler's contest.
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Montgomery County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. The geographic center of the state, the county has great potential for tourism.
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