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Don Stevenson of Morganton builds birdhouses and feeders in his Fourth Creek Folk Art Studio. What sets his work apart from other birdhouse builders is the fact that his birdhouses are hand-sculpted, scaled reproductions of old buildings, barns, mountain cabins, and churches. His work draws raves from collectors, art critics, and book authors. His projects have included replicas of Paula Steichen Sandburg's goat barn in Henderson County and Payne's Chapel Methodist Church in Buncombe County.
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When the Civil War ended, Charlotte's population was around 5,000. Today, over 650,000 people live there. In the space of 150 years, the town moved from being a farming area to an industrial one and then to a modern financial center. Adams describes three places that give visitors a feel for Charlotte's past: the Levine Museum of the New South, Mert's Heart and Soul Restaurant, and the Mint Museum of Craft + Design.
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Family reunions are an important event in the lives of North Carolinians. The gatherings can involve several hundred people over a weekend or a dozen or so family members for lunch. It is the connection to the group, the traditions, and the heritage that is important. Silcox-Jarrett discusses three North Carolina families who have long-running family reunions: the Powell family, dating to 1588; the Brooks family, dating to the mid-1700s; and the Burgin-Lytle family, dating to 1677.
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In northeastern Chatham County, the Williams family descendants have owned and worked the same forty acres of land and forest for eight generations. They are the descendants of Mountain Williams, 1814-1873, a part-Indian, part African slave girl. Each year, starting in 1895 and continuing to the present, the Williams Family Circle, as they are called, have gathered for a family reunion in Chatham County. More than 300 persons come from all over the nation to renew family ties and family history.
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In colonial times, families were required to keep their own cemeteries. Visitors to Ocracoke Island marvel at the close proximity of the living and the dead, with grave markers just outside a front door, in the backyard, or just across the fence. Ocracoke has more than seventy-five small family plots, and since 1950, one big Community Cemetery. While most opt to use the Community Cemetery, state law requires only that the top of the coffin be eighteen inches under ground, and Hyde County has no law regulating burials. Even in the twenty-first century, backyard burial is still an option.
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When Bill Floyd goes to a cemetery, he takes a clipboard, mirror, and laptop with him. His passion for preserving information found on gravestones earned him the nickname Cemetery Man. He began collecting and organizing this information in 1995. Since then, Floyd has documented material on thousands of tombstones in countless cemeteries in western North Carolina, including those in Rutherford, Cleveland, Gaston, Lincoln, and Burke Counties. The material is available on his website, which covers over 1,200 pages.
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After time with the Army medical corps, banking, and Winston-Salem's Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, a chance encounter created in genealogist Mel White a passion for tracing African American family trees. He gathered data on Happy Hill, an historically African American residential section near Old Salem. This led to a major exhibit, “Across the Creek from Salem: The Story of Happy Hill, 1816-1952,†in The Gallery at Old Salem. In 2005, White left his job at Old Salem to pursue his in interest in African American genealogy. To date, he has built a database containing over 20,000 names.
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The Appalachian Archives at Mars Hill College contains a wide range of genealogical treasures. The majority of the collection focuses on families in western North Carolina. Other items include census records; a scrapbook on famed folk musician Bascom Lamar Lunsford; an extremely rare 1890s publication of the complete collection of the War of the Rebellion; and North Carolina newspapers on microfilm. The collection is expanding digitally to make the material accessible in the library or from home.
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The New Hanover County Public Library's North Carolina Room was created in 1910. Since then, library personnel have collected material relating to the history of the area, the state, and the families that live there. The collection includes over 10,000 state and local history books, over 5,000 photographs pertaining to the region, 1,500 postcards, major Wilmington newspapers published since 1792, vertical files, and census records. The library's North Carolina Room is considered the most comprehensive collection of genealogical research materials for southeastern North Carolina.
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In this second of a series of articles on classic Southern flavors, Garner discusses country ham. He describes several major ham producers and how they cure ham. Country ham curing is generally confined to the states of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. He lists several eating establishments that he feels serves the best country ham: Caro-Mi Dining Room (Tyron); The Jarrett House (Dillsboro); Miller's (Mocksville); and Pam's Farmhouse (Raleigh).
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Shelby, the county seat of Cleveland County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month. The town incorporated in 1843 and was named for Colonel Isaac Shelby, a Revolutionary War soldier. The town's current population is 20,000, and in 1980, it became one of the first places to be designated a national and North Carolina Main Street Community. The town supports historic preservation. Among the structures in the historic district are a 1919 Herschell-Spillman carousel, the 1907 Cleveland County Courthouse, the 1924 Masonic Temple, and the 1916 U.S. Post Office. Other attractions include the Shelby City Park, The Cleveland County Fair, and the Rogers Theatre.
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Evangeline McLennan Davis was a woman who refused to be limited by the social conventions of her time. Born in 1914, Davis's early successes were in athletics. She earned a national tennis ranking and reached the quarter finals in what is now the U.S. Open. She later played golf and won the Southern Golf championship four times. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was a sportswriter. Many believe she was the first woman sportswriter in the country. In the late 1930s, an Atlanta paper sent her to report on the Far East, and she worked for a year in pre-war Japan. She married and settled in Greensboro with her journalist husband. They moved to Virginia in 1960, and she edited a weekly newspaper, The Virginia Gazette. Davis died in Raleigh in 2004.
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Most people whistle from time to time, but for Phyllis Heil of Hickory, whistling is a lifelong hobby. When she was four, one of her brothers gave her a whistling lesson, she has been perfecting her art ever since. She began performing publicly when someone overheard her whistling in the church basement. She has performed at funerals, hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living centers, and the church choir. In 2003, she took some classes at the International Whistlers Convention in Louisburg and watched the competitions. She returned in 2004 to compete and placed third in the women's division. In 2005, she again placed third in the women's grand championship and won the Entertainer of the Year Award. She has appeared on the Jay Leno Tonight Show and has recorded two CDs of her music.
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Snowbird Cherokees in western North Carolina chose a trail planted with trees and medicinal herbs to honor the memory of tribal leaders, like Junaluska, who have passed down age-old traditions. The Medicine Trail, which was completed in 2002, is located outside Robbinsville. The nearly seventy-five varieties of plants along the trail were selected for their role in the community's medicine traditions. Most of the plants along the trail are identified and their curative powers described. Plants include Joe Pye weed, sourwood, yellowroot, and goldenseal.
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Jackson traces the early days of winemaking in North Carolina. Much of it can be traced back to what is called the Mother Vine, a strong grapevine that has survived four hundred years on Roanoke Island. Three scenarios are put forth for its beginning: the Indians cultivated it; it grew wild; or it was cultivated by the colonists of the Lost Colony. The vine is a scuppernong, a variety of muscadine grape. The vine was once over a half acre in size, but over the years decay, weather, insects, and diseases have reduced its size to about thirty feet wide and one hundred feet long. Life still exists in the vine, and the Duplin Winery was started with cuttings from the Mother Vine.
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