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Furniture manufacturing began in High Point in the late 1880s. The High Point Furniture Manufacturing Company was the first to ship furniture beyond the city, though soon other furniture manufacturers, attracted by a good supply of lumber and a strong regional market for inexpensive furniture, opened for business. High Point hosted the first Southern Regional Market in 1909. From this date, the shows evolved into the International Home Furnishings Market, a semi-annual furniture event.
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The North Carolina Arts Incubator, located in downtown Siler City, is the brainchild of Leon Tongret, former director of the small business center at Central Carolina Community College. Business incubators were started by the federal government in the 1980s, and today there are over 2,000 nationwide. Only seven are oriented toward the arts. There are over forty business incubators in the state, but Siler City has the only arts one. Among the things an arts incubator does is offer customized work space to artists. With 70,000 square feet in seven buildings, Siler City's incubator is the largest in the nation, with a planned expansion to 250,000 square feet. Pittard describes the project which links together the arts, historic preservation, and economic development.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 2, July 2006,
p134-136, 138, 140-141, il
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Located in Maggie Valley, the Wheels Through Time Museum features vintage hot rods, touring sedans, sleek roadsters, motorcycles, and billboards. The curator is Dale Walksler, who built up his collection over the thirty years he was in the motorcycle business. The original museum was in Mount Vernon, Illinois, for twenty years. Walksler moved it to Maggie Valley four years ago because he was looking for a small town with a stable tourist trade.
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Milling discusses the work and creations of Asheville glass carver Charles Donaldson. Donaldson spent fifteen years, beginning at age nineteen, traveling the world conducting studies of various cultures' arts and crafts. Seeking a nicer place to raise children, the family left California and settled first in Wilmington and, in 2001, in Asheville. Donaldson produces between sixty and eighty pieces a month. Many are shipped to galleries for sale. He does about twelve craft shows a year. One of the most popular pieces he sells is titled THE BRIDGE.
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In this ongoing series of favorite Southern dishes, Garner discusses the delights of barbecue and the distinct styles of preparing and serving it that developed in the Coastal Plain and in the Piedmont. He lists several eating establishments that serve good barbecue: Grady's Barbecue (Dudley); Cook's Barbecue (Lexington); and Troutman's Barbecue (Denton).
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Many North Carolinians are collectors of standard objects, like coins, stamps, or baseball cards. Tomlin introduces four individuals whose collections are a bit different. They are Marie Lawrence of Morehead City, who collects deviled-egg plates; Mace Quidley of Camden, a collector of vintage gas pumps; Bill Michal of High Point, who collects antique banjos; and Jerome Gundrum of Snead's Ferry, a collector of root beer memorabilia.
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Agriculture is the state's top industry, and through the years a number of men and women have been pioneers in the science and art of agriculture and have served as leaders and ambassadors of the agricultural community. The North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame, created in 1953, honors the accomplishments of thirty-three men and women. Members include Leonidas L. Polk, Jane S. McKimmon, W. Kerr Scott, Benjamin W. Kilgore, and Ruth A. Current.
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The Bovender family of Rutherford County, Tim, Nell, and children Will and Ali, are the 2006 North Carolina Farm Conservation Family of the Year. The farm began in 1768 as a 200-acre land grant from King George III and has grown into a 1,000-acre one. The award is given annually by the North Carolina Division of Soil and Water Conservation and recognizes farmers who implement conservation-friendly techniques on their farms, often at great personal expense. Placing one-third of the farm under a conservation easement and installing 45,000 feet of fencing to keep cows out of streams that flow through the farm are two conservation things the family has done.
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The history of Kannapolis in Cabarrus County during the 20th-century is closely tied to the Cannon Manufacturing Company. James William Cannon started construction of his mill in 1906. At his death in 1921, 12 plants in the Kannapolis complex employed 15,000 workers, who were producing over 300,000 towels a day. The mills employed several generations of mill workers. In 1985, the plants were sold, and after passing through several owners, closed permanently in 2003. Nearly 4,800 workers in Cabarrus and Rowan counties were laid off. County leaders began a search for new projects. Since 2003, over 350 new jobs have come to Kannapolis, along with $25 million in new investments. The biggest project is the North Carolina Research Campus. This $1 billion biotechnology center, opening in 2010, will be one of the most advanced facilities of its type in the world.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006,
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On April 21, 1913, a meteorite slammed into Moore County about three miles from the town of Carthage. It was not very big, weighing slightly over four pounds and measuring about the size of a large man's fist. George Calvin Graves, who owned the land where the meteorite landed, took it home, and there it remained for the next twenty-one years. In 1934, Harry T. Davis, curator of geology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences came to see it and later took it to the Smithsonian Institution. Over the years scientists around the world have studied the “Moore County,†seeking to learn more about its origin and composition. Meteorites are named for places where they are found. Part of the Moore County meteorite is now in the Smithsonian Institution, and the remainder is in the NC Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Morris describes five North Carolina farms where conventional crops were traded for alternatives uses of acreage. They are Spinning Spider Creamery, producing goat cheese in Marshall; Whistlepig Farm, growing specialty garlic in Asheville; Chapel Hill Creamery, producing cheese from grass-fed cows in Chapel Hill; Harbinger Lavender Farm, growing varieties of lavender in Harbinger; and Bradsher Sod Farm, growing fescue in Raleigh.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006,
p136-138, 140, 142, 144, il
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People who enjoy books often gather in groups to discuss what they are reading. Molinary discusses three books clubs that have existed for over a century and one newly-formed one. They are the Tarboro Magazine Club (Tarboro, 1895); The Travelers Club (Hickory, 1890); Tuesday Afternoon Reading Club (Reidsville, 1897); and Waiting for Maya (Davidson, 1992).
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Famed maritime artist Robert Dance discusses his work. Dance was born in Tokyo, where his father was a businessman. Eight years ago he moved from Winston-Salem to Kinston. His reputation as a maritime artist is nationwide, and he is especially famous in New England. Bound for Blue Water, J. Russell Jinishian's recently published book of past and present American nautical painters, lists Dance among the best American marine artists of the 20th-century and into the 21st-century. Dance's works hang in the North Carolina Museum of Art; the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut; and numerous corporate and private collections.
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Where and how 4-H clubs started is unknown since many states claim they started some club of this kind. In North Carolina, 4-H traces its official roots back to a corn club that was organized in Hertford County in 1909 to teach boys farming practices. Guided by Jane S. McKimmon, 4-H clubs for girls were being organized by 1911. Clubs for African-American youth formed in 1914. The various clubs became officially known as 4-H on January 1, 1926. By 1952, North Carolina led the nation in membership, with over 140,000 members enrolled in 2,280 4-H clubs. Westbrook discusses the focus of 4-H clubs through the years.
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The Etheridge family came from the mainland to Roanoke Island in 1799 to establish a farmstead. The farm remained in the family's possession until descendants sold it in 1988 to Outer Banks Conservationists, a private, nonprofit organization incorporated to protect and preserve historic sites. A rustic shell of a single-gable, five-room house, ringed with empty outbuildings, is the only reminder of almost 200 years of the family's presence. Restoration began in 1999. The conservation group will operate the Etheridge farm and land as a living history interpretation site of a 19th-century, eastern North Carolina coastal farm.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 3, Aug 2006,
p108-110, 112, 114-115, il
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