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Finding a place for real home cooking while traveling on an interstate is a chore, and most travelers stick with the four-lane chain. However, real food is there if one knows where to look. Martin explores the I-40 corridor between Greensboro and Winston-Salem, with stops including Grove Street Cafe (Greensboro), Plaza Restaurant (Kernersville), The Diner (Winston-Salem), and Little Richard's Bar-B-Cue (Winston-Salem).
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Swain County, one of the last formed in the state, was named for Governor Daniel L. Swain (1806-1868). Burns describes how to spend a perfect weekend there, including visits to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Great Smoky Mountain Railroad, and Bryson City.
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Prunkl discusses the Toy Museum at Old Salem in Winston-Salem. The museum, the vision of Tom Gray and his mother, Anne Gray, opened in November 2002. The Grays donated their 4,000-piece toy collection, with items dating from 225 A.D. to 1925, for auction. The $250,000 raised purchased 95 percent of the museum's collection, which features toys children played with from the state's earliest settlements to the early 20th century.
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A vacation trip that Karen Tiede took to Antarctica led to an artistic opportunity. While there, she drew and photographed penguins. Returning home to Chatham County, she turned her observations into carved penguins. However, these penguins are carved with a chain saw and weigh from 60 to 400 pounds. Tiede discusses her penguin art.
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Jackson County is 491-square-miles of scenic beauty. Ahuja describes how to spend a perfect weekend there, having high stakes fun at Harrah's Cherokee Casino, hiking mountain trails, viewing numerous waterfalls, and enjoying a wealth of activities in nearby towns of Balsam, Cashiers, Dillsboro, and Sylva.
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Timblin discusses the tremendous comeback passenger trains have made in North Carolina. Along with The Carolinian and The Piedmont, both Amtrak trains, the state is considering additional routes in the East. The North Carolina Department of Transportation has begun to restore stations, including those at Hickory, Black Mountain, and Old Fort, and building new ones in Asheville and Valdese.
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Robroy Farquhar discovered Flat Rock in 1940, and soon moved his theater troupe, the Vagabond Players, from New York City to the North Carolina mountains. Sauls discusses the development of the Flat Rock Playhouse, which the North Carolina General Assembly designated in 1961 as the "State Theater of North Carolina" and which is rated today as one of the nation's top ten summer theaters.
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There are ten minor league baseball teams playing in North Carolina in 2003. Caldwell gives a synopsis of each team, including the Asheville Tourists, Durham Bulls, and Kinston Indians.
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Many people think theme park when they hear the words Tweetsie Railroad in Blowing Rock, but there actually was a Tweetsie Railroad. Bourknight discusses the line that dates back to 1866 and linked Eastern Tennessee with Western North Carolina. The locomotive that pulls the train at the park is the original engine No. 12 that was purchased from cowboy actor Gene Autry in 1956, restored, and brought to Blowing Rock.
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Roxboro, located in Person County. is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month. Comer discusses a number of the town's sites, including the National Register Historic District, and famous people who lived there, such as Enos Slaughter, St. Louis Cardinals major league baseball player, and Robert Lester Blackwell, the first North Carolinian to win the Medal of Honor in World War I.
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The New River, which flows about 100 miles through western North Carolina, is at 300 million years, second only to the Nile River in age. A dam threatened the river with extinction in 1965, but legal and legislative action over a ten-year period saved it. In 1975, the North Carolina General Assembly declared 26.5 miles a State Scenic River. In 1976, the federal government declared the same stretch part of the National Wetland and Scenic River System.
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Troy, the county seat of Montgomery County, is OUR STATE magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month. Comer discusses a number of features of this close-knit town of 4,205 individuals, including the historic 1921 courthouse, and other sites; Capel Rugs, a main employer; and preservation efforts.
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Martin continues his series of articles which list restaurants serving home cooking that are found just off interstate highways. This month Martin travels along the I-40 corridor from Mocksville to Hickory and highlights three restaurants - Keaton's BBQ (Cool Springs), Miller's Restaurant (Mocksville) and the Snack Bar (Hickory).
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Ayden in Pitt County is the home of Pete Jones's famous barbecue joint, the Starlight Inn. The 70-year-old business has garnered many national awards during the years, the latest being the 2003 James Beard Foundation America's Classics award, which was only given to five restaurants nationwide.
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The High Hampton Inn is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains just south of Cashiers in Jackson County. Jackson discusses the history of this inn which has been a special retreat for people for over eighty years.
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