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Westbrook discusses five women who are making a difference in North Carolina agriculture: Meg Scott Phipps, North Carolina Secretary of Agriculture; Deborah Grant, owner of Agriculture Program Services; Genell Pridgen and Sandra Garner, sheep farmers; and Debbie Roos, Chatham County extension agent.
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People, places, and things we grew up with give us a sense of place in time. Across the state many of these things, including service station attendants, clotheslines, downtown movie houses, soda fountains in drugstores, and dialects, are slowly disappearing from the scene.
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Square dancing is one of the most popular dance styles. Over 110 clubs have been organized statewide since the first began in the Triad in 1951. Bills were introduced in the 1995 and 1997 General Assembly to make square dancing the official state folk dance, but they failed.
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Weather and topography in the state make possible the observation of almost eighty percent of all American bird species. Viewing can be enhanced through use of items, including binoculars and guidebooks, and by joining a bird watchers club.
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Burgaw, the county seat of Pender County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. Comer discusses the history of this town of 3,800 people and things to see and do there.
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Elizabeth City, the county seat of Pasquotank County, is named not for royalty, but for Betsy Tooley, the wife of Adam Tooley, who sold the land the city was built on. Waller discusses the history of the city and things to see and do on a weekend there.
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At the corner of East Sprague and Peachtree streets in Winston-Salem stands a bright yellow gas station in the shape of a clamshell. Built in the 1930s, this former Shell Oil Company service station has recently been restored by Preservation North Carolina for use as a satellite office. Kerr describes the preservation process.
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George Beverly Shea, 94, has been the featured soloist on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association team for fifty-six years. Shea, who lives in Montreat, is profiled in this OUR STATE article.
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On August 30, 1916, Winston-Salem and Asheville, two baseball teams in the North Carolina State League, made baseball history by playing the shortest 9-inning game on record - 31 minutes. Thomas Wolfe was the batboy for the Asheville team. The feat lay hidden for fifty years until it was accidentally discovered by Dick Kaplan, a sports writer for the Asheville Citizen.
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Dr. Laura Duhan Kaplan, current chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is the national Professor of the Year. Kaplan received the honor in 2001 from the Carnegie Foundation.
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Chase discusses Penderlea Homesteads, a planned farm community built in Pender County during the Great Depression to improve poor living conditions. Penderlea was the first of one hundred similar communities built nationwide as part of the federal government's New Deal program.
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Billy Graham, often called \"the last great singular public evangelist in the history of American evangelism,\" is profiled in this Tomlin article.
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A number of products have been developed in North Carolina, but few people today know that pantyhose were created in the state in the mid-1950s by executives of Glen Raven Mills.
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Susie M. Sharp blazed a trail for women in the legal profession. In 1926, she was the first woman to attend law school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; in 1949, she became the state's first female judge; in 1974, she became the first woman in the nation to be elected a Chief Justice of a state Supreme Court.
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Polk County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Polk, located in the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills, is one of North Carolina's smallest counties. Tourists are attracted by a number of waterfalls, fine wines, scenery, and towns like Tryon and Saluda.
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