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Mary Meletiou learned to ride a bicycle on the quiet streets of Burlington in the 1950s. Later she would go on a 2,000 mile bicycle ride from Greensboro to Denver. In 1974, she went to Raleigh to promote bicycle touring in North Carolina. There were no bicycle routes at that time. Meletiou, an economic major at UNC-G, had also studied cartography. She developed the state's first bike trail, the 700-mile Mountains to the Sea Trail. Today the state's extensive Bicycling Highways System consists of nine trails, including the Ports of Call, the North Line Trace, and the Cape Fear Run. North Carolina's bicycle trails program has received national attention and served as a model for other states, including Colorado and Tennessee.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 8, Jan 2006,
p96-98, 100, 102-103, il, map
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The North Carolina Zoo claims a notable first. It was the nation's first zoo to be designed around the natural habitat concept. Animals are not housed in cages, but are seen in habitats that closely resemble their homes in the wild. Jackson describes how the zoo has developed and grown over the past thirty-two years.
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The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a public, residential high school offering 11th- and 12th-graders a specialized program with a strong emphasis on math, science, and technology, opened in 1980. Credit for its creation is largely given to John Ehle, Terry Sanford, and James B. Hunt. The school is located in Durham. The school currently has an enrollment of 625, evenly divided between male and female students. Westbrook describes the admission policy and programs.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 8, Jan 2006,
p112-114, 116, 118-119, il
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Jackson's Western Store, located in Asheville, has crafted custom leather goods for almost seventy years. The store opened on Lexington Avenue in 1938 and has been operated by the Jackson family since than. The store specializes in Western wear, boot, hats, shirts, and other items. The store's assortment of riding gear has earned it the nickname of “The Best Little Saddle Shop East of the Mississippi.â€
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For the past twenty-two years, Dottie Netherton of Edenton has been practicing scherenschnitte, or the art of cutting an image into paper, generally cutting away the background and leaving the shape of the paper to form the desired image. The art, which dates back 1,000 year to China, evolved in Europe, and came to America in the 1700s. The craft was popular in North Carolina's early colonial towns. Netherton originally cut from patterns, but as her skill progressed, she made her own designs, incorporating traditional elements, such as hearts, flowers, birds, and Biblical themes. Her work is sold in about twenty stores from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and beyond.
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Bakers start working at 3 A.M., and the bakers at Whitman's Bakery in Waynesville have been making pastries, breads and cookies for the last sixty years. The bakery opened in 1945 and still remains in its original location at 18 North Main Street. Now operated by a fourth-generation of the Whitman family, the bakery continues its legacy of fresh baked goods served with a personal touch.
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For three generations members of the Gillespie family were prolific crafters of handmade rifles, first in Transylvania County, and then for two more generations in Henderson County. The rifles were known in western North Carolina for their reliability and workmanship. Because no two rifles were alike, each one had to have bullets made specifically for it. The family's rifle-making tradition came to an end in 1891, when John Harvey Gillespie, the last of the gun makers, died.
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Jackson surveys bed-and-breakfast inns that are just right for a romantic getaway. They are A Bed of Roses (Asheville); Harmony House Inn (New Bern); and the Forever Inn (Wadesboro).
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 73 Issue 9, Feb 2006,
p116-118, 120, 122, 124, il
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Albemarle, the county seat of Stanly County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The residents of the town take pride in preserving the town's historic buildings, such as transforming the crumbling, turn-of-the-century drugstore into the Boardroom Bar and Bistro. Prunkl takes the reader on a tour of the town, including the Pee Dee Avenue Historic District, Albemarle Music Store, Whispering Pines BBQ, and the Badin Road Drive-in Theatre.
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John and Terry Graedon of Chapel Hill are a health conscious couple. Their popular People's Pharmacy series of books, a thrice-weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a weekly radio call-in program on National Public Radio reach millions of people each week. Joe Graedon has a master's degree in pharmacology, and Terry has a Ph.D. in medical anthropology. On the radio and in their books and columns the Graedons deal with questions about common health concerns.
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OUR STATE magazine begins a bimonthly feature on classic Southern flavors. In this first of a series of articles, Garner discusses one of the South's most famous dishes--fried chicken. North Carolina Representative Edith Warren of Farmville and famous restaurateur and cookbook author Mildred Council of Chapel Hill comment on their approach to cooking chicken. Garner describes several eating establishments where the best fried chicken can be found, including Strickland Dail Dining and Catering (Snow Hill); The Whole Truth Grocery and Lunchroom (Wilson); Ye Old Country Kitchen (Snow Camp); and Price's Chicken Coop (Charlotte).
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Jan Karon brought to life the imaginary mountain town of Mitford in nine novels. The town is based on Blowing Rock, where Karon lived while she wrote most of the books. The story lines follow the central character, Father Tim Kavanagh, an Episcopalian priest who ministers to his mountain parish. Martin describes Karon's struggles to write the first book and how it found a place with a New York publisher. Although the Mitford series is complete, Karon will continue the Father Tim character through three more novels in new locales.
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Witherspoon Rose Culture in Durham specializes in installing and maintaining rose gardens across North Carolina. The business was founded in 1951 by R. K. Witherspoon, starting with one truck and forty plants. Today, the company tends 2,200 gardens in the state, containing approximately 70,000 plants. The company ships around 200 selected varieties of roses nationwide and sells potted roses at the garden shop in Durham.
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Lee undertakes a search of North Carolina to find the best chocolate creations. She lists places where most historical chocolates, the finest fudge and brownies, fried-and-true truffles, the most fun Tar Heel chocolates, the best hot chocolate, and the best chocolate pie, cake, bread pudding, milk, and pecan candy can be found.
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Wilmington-based Cape Fear Riverwood recovers from the bottom of the Cape Fear River centuries-old logs that were floated downriver by loggers from the late 1700s to early 1900s. Many of the logs that sank along the route are rare old-growth cypress and heart pine between three and seven hundred years old. Once cut, the wood is used in flooring, furniture, and house building. The wood is popular because of its hue, incredibly tight grain, age, and rarity. Since the company was found in the 1990s, around 25,000 logs have been reclaimed. The company estimates that around one million logs still lie on the river bottom, so there is no danger of ever running out of material.
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