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In 1997, Pete Bock and Jerry Pettit launched the Coastal Plain League with six teams in Eastern North Carolina. The summer league ranks as one of the country's best for college players, professional baseball scouts, and fans. In 2005, the league totals fourteen teams that play a fifty-six game schedule. The league revived a number of the state's historic ballparks formerly used by minor league teams. Although the players are amateurs, the teams operate just like minor league baseball teams, selling billboard advertising, food and drinks, and offering the usual promotions fans are accustomed to at minor league parks.
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Railroading attracts many tourists to Bryson City. They come to ride on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad and to tour the Smoky Mountain Trains Museum. The museum, operated by Tim and Sue Cooper, boasts the largest collection of Lionel trains in the Carolinas, with over 7,000 cars and locomotives on display. Between 250 and 300 new pieces are added yearly. The collection is valued at $1.2 million.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 2, July 2005,
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James Emory Gibson of High Point is one of North Carolina's greatest success stories. In 1931, in debt $75,000 during the Depression and with a family of six to provide for, Gibson parleyed a 10-cent paddleball game into a company that would sell in 1972 for $1.6 million. He repaid the debt. The game was Fli-Back, a game that challenged players to continuously bounce a sponge-ball that was attached to a small wooden paddle with an elastic string.
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When members of the New York Knickerbockers baseball team marched off to fight in the Civil War, they took the game and rules with them and played during their time in camps. James Constantine, a divinity student at Duke University, now serves as chaplain of the 26th Regiment of North Carolina Troops Reactivated. He wants to develop a vintage baseball team that will play the game as Civil War soldiers played it.
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The Raleigh Trolley tour started as part of the city's bicentennial festivities. The tours proved so popular that the city, together with Capital Area Preservation, continued the runs. Today, the trolley makes four trips every Saturday, leaving from Mordecai Park. Bloom discusses what can be seen and learned from a Raleigh Trolley.
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Colored-pencil artist Kim Mosher, a resident of the Hatteras Island town of Buxton since 1987, draws her inspiration from the air and water that surrounds her island home. What she sees finds its way onto paper, tiles, and fabrics in vivid eye-catching colors. Many of her limited edition prints find an extended life on note cards, serving trays, decorative tables, and clothing.
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Graham County is OUR STATE magazine's featured county of the month. Located near the Tennessee border, the county is home to 8,000 residents. With 60 percent of the county's 433 square miles forested and under U.S. Forest Service management, tourism and outdoor activities are popular. Teague discusses county history, the Cherokee Indians, and how residents supplement their incomes from forest sources.
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Dr. George Pilkington built the first drugstore in Pittsboro in 1916. The store passed through several owners. A local family gutted and modernized the space for a furniture store in the 1960s. Pittsboro resident Gene Oldham bought as much of the surplus drugstore material as he could. In 1996, he purchased the building which housed Dr. Pilkington's store and, with the help of friends, set about recreating the look and feel of the early drugstores, using his purchases and parts scavenged from other defunct drugstores. The store's name, S&T's Soda Shoppe, comes from the initials of his sons' names, Steve and T. J.
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Bill Payne, called North Carolina's number one outlaw, and his sidekick, Wash Turner (alias Jack Borden) escaped from the Halifax County's Caledonia prison camp on February 1, 1937. The two went on a crime spree that included car theft, kidnapping, and murder. The pair robbed a number of banks across the state, but it was the robbery the Bank of Candor, in Montgomery County, September 29, 1937, that many people remember. Brought to justice in Sanford by G-Men under the supervision of J. Edgar Hoover, the two were executed in 1938 for murdering a state trooper.
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Born in Harnett County, Jim Swinson grew up in Greenville where he attended East Carolina University. He now lives on Chocowinity Bay. Swinson creates environmentally themed songs that he performs with his wife and son at venues ranging from festivals to elementary schools. His stage name in Pamlico Joe. The songs are designed to help teach children and adults about the importance of caring for the earth and its resources. The family has performed across the state, up and down the East Coast, at the White House, and as far away as Texas.
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After World War II, vacationers flocked to the state's beaches. A large part of the credit goes to Bill Sharpe (1903-1970), former publisher of The State magazine, and photographer John H. Hemmer (1892-1981), who promoted travel and tourism in North Carolina. Pittard takes a nostalgic look at beaches the way they were in the post-World War II period.
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In western North Carolina, theater lovers will discover a class-act assortment of small theater companies. Sometimes this means blazing a trail into the wilderness to find the tiny Fletcher Studio Theater (70 seats) at Waynesville. Performances of the familiar and unfamiliar plays can be found from Flat Rock Playhouse, North Carolina's official state theater, to the Licklog Players in Hayesville.
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Carrying a Minolta camera and a North Carolina road map, Mike Lassiter has traveled 30,000 of the state's 52,699 square miles. Lassiter's quest is to preserve family-owned businesses on film before this piece of Americana disappears forever. Many of these businesses are gathering places in small communities; some have operated for a century or more and have become institutions in their towns. Lassiter has traveled the state for the past six years and ended his quest in March 2005. He hopes to publish his collection of photographs and has received some interest from publishing houses.
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James McConnell Smith built the house with his wife, Mary Patton Smith, around 1840. Smith was one of the region's wealthiest men, owning as much as one-third of Asheville and over 30,000 acres on the French Broad River. The home is the oldest surviving building in Asheville and the oldest brick structure in Buncombe County. It served as a second home for Smith, as the family's main dwelling was in Asheville. The house was later purchased at public auction in 1858, by Smith's daughter, Sarah Lucinda, and her husband William Wallace McDowell. The house was saved from demolition in 1975 by the Western North Carolina Historical Association and the Junior League. The Smith-McDowell house is home to the historical association and serves as a museum.
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A unique program in the state recognizes farm families who have owned their property for over a century. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' Century Farm Families program began in 1970 under the leadership of then agriculture commissioner Jim Graham. That year over 800 farms were identified whose owners were able to provide proof of 100 years of continuous ownership. In 2005, the number is around 1,500 farms, with an average of two or three farms joining the program each month. The greatest concentration of Century Farms is in Johnston, Nash, Robeson, Sampson, Duplin, and Alamance Counties. Of North Carolina's 100 counties, only five do not have Century Farms--Dare, Jackson, New Hanover, Swain, and Yancey.
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