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The Raleigh Ringers, a group of handbell musicians, organized in Raleigh in 1990. The group has the most extensive collection of handbells and bell-like instruments owned by a single performing group in the world. The ringers perform original tunes as well as religious and secular selections. Beyond performing, the Raleigh Ringers sponsor and participate in workshops, tours, and other educational opportunities; help novice bell ringers with their craft; and encourage handbell composers to create new works.
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The first love feast North Carolina was held in November 1753 in the historic Moravian settlement in Forsyth County. Since then, this communal celebration has become standard holiday fare for many churches across the state. Duncan discusses what distinguishes a Moravian-style Christmas love feast from candlelight Christmas Eve services of other denominations.
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Silcox-Jarrett discusses how Hopewell Presbyterian Church in Huntersville celebrates the Celtic traditions of its members during the Christmas season. Celtic family names have been represented on the church roster since the church's founding in 1762. The members' names, history of the church, and Celtic Christmas carols inspired the minister, Jeff Lowrance, to begin a Celtic celebration in 2000.
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When the residents of Shackleford Banks migrated to Morehead City, Harkers Island, and Bogue Banks in the 19th-century, they brought their traditions with them. Celebrating the holiday season with food was one of their most cherished traditions. Several of their descendants discuss a cake that stands out in their memory--the tub jelly cake.
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Formerly known as Sherrill's Inn, the Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview is owned by the fifth generation of the original owners, Jim and Elizabeth McClure, who purchased it in 1916. The almost 200-year-old farmhouse is designated a historic property. Bourknight recounts Christmases at the farm as the family has celebrated it for the past one hundred years.
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Stephen Jackson of Brevard is the founder, owner, and curator of the one-of-a-kind aluminum Christmas tree museum. These shiny trees were popular in the mid-20th-century. Now in its ninth year, the mobile seasonal display contains nearly 100 trees. Foster has compiled an extensive list of around 40 manufacturers of this type of tree, their production dates, and descriptions of over 30 different kinds of branches.
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Valdese, Burke County's second largest town, was founded by the Waldensians, a pre-Reformation Christian sect from the Cottain Alps of Italy. Members of the group emigrated to Burke County in May 1893, searching for freedom and room to grow. Residents of the town work very hard to preserve this history. Every year their story is retold in the outdoor drama “From This Day Forward,†the nation's fourth oldest outdoor drama. The Trail of Faith, an outdoor museum with fifteen exhibits, details the Waldensians' centuries of struggle in Europe and recreates their historic journey to North Carolina. Other activities the town offers include visits to the Old Rock School, the Waldensian Heritage Wines, and Myra's, and playing a game of bocce.
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James K. Polk, eleventh president of the United States, was born in Mecklenburg County on November 2, 1795. Polk's life and career was divided between North Carolina and Tennessee. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina but lived thereafter in Tennessee. He served in Congress for fourteen years and became Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1835. Later he ran for president in 1844, campaigning on a pledge to serve just one term. As president, Polk championed the cause of westward expansion of the United States, settled the Oregon boundary dispute with England, and gained Congressional recognition of a state of war with Mexico and the annexation of Texas.
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Jan Burger and Donovan Zimmerman are the creators of Paperhand Puppet Intervention. The puppets, some of which are over twenty feet tall, are constructed of paper-mache. The larger puppets require stronger materials to hold them together. Whenever possible, the builders use recycled materials. Burger and Zimmerman have been working together about seven years. The puppets are constructed and stored in an old textile mill in Saxapahaw. The puppets perform at a number of venues, including schools, festivals, and parades.
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Barney Fife and Gomer Pyle, characters on the 1960s television program The Andy Griffith Show, are impersonated by Scott Epperson and Bruce Newman, respectively. They appear at parades and festivals in North Carolina and across the country.
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North Carolina takes pride in being first at making national history in a number of ways. These include the first successful powered flight; first English settlement in the New World; first state or public university; first gold rush; first national seashore; first state-funded art museum; and the first book published by an African-American in the South.
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A shipment of 1,000 books, sent from London to St. Thomas Parish in Bath in 1701, by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, gave Bath County the first lending library in the colonies. This predates Benjamin Franklin's brainchild by thirty years. Only one book remains, Gabriel Towerson's 'An Explication to the Catechism of the Church of England.'
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North Carolina was the leading gold-producing state before the discovery of gold in California in 1849. Another vein of ore attracted miners when silver was discovered in southern Davidson County in 1838. Roswell King of Connecticut purchased the mine from a man named Byerly in the same year. For years the Silver Hill Mine was the only silver mine in the country. Deposits of copper, zinc, lead, and carbonate ore were also found. Total production of all types of minerals at the mine during the 19th-century amounted to over $1 million. Hodge lists the users of the mine up to the last days of the 20th-century.
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X-rays were first observed in Germany on November 8, 1895, by Conrad Roentgen. On February 27, 1896, the CHARLOTTE OBSERVER published an X-ray photograph of a hand, taken earlier in 1896, by Dr. Henry Louis Smith and three medical students at Davidson College. Dartmouth College was also making X-rays and disputed Davidson's claims to being the first to do it in the United States. Martin discusses the conflicting claims.
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During World War II, the American armed services were mostly segregated. In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, which forced the commandant of the Marine Corps to admit African Americans. Almost 20,000 African Americans signed up and went through basic training between 1943 and 1949. Moore recounts some of their experiences in this period of racial segregation.
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