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43616
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Howard Ginsburg explains that we, as humans, are accompanied by sound all day, every day, without knowing the true magic of how it occurs. Ginsburg describes the science of sound as an energy source that creates vibrations in the ear. With these vibrations, we can interpret patterns and, in turn, evaluate past experiences allowing us to give a current sound context.
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43626
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Dr. John Cockman and his family have a long history with the love of music. As a professor of physics at Appalachian State University in Boone, Dr. Cockman spends much of his time instructing students and playing bluegrass music with his wife and six children. During the summer, John and his family even teach local friends and students the art of playing guitar, fiddling, singing and dancing for free.
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43628
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Richard Yarborough relives his most memorable moments with his aunt, Caterina Jarboro. Caterina was a famed opera star throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, becoming "the first Black woman to be featured in a White opera company in the United States."
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44549
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One of North Carolina's most famous social activists, Weil spent her life fighting for systemic change, from leading the North Carolina Equal Suffrage League in 1920 to advocating for labor reform and civil rights. In researching Weil further, the author of this article notes an unexpected find in her papers housed in the North Carolina State Archives--letter from her Jewish family living in Europe during the Holocaust.
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44548
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The article takes up the case of John Dalrymple, colonial era British army offices and commander of Fort Johnston in the 1750s and 1760s, imprisoned by Governor Arthur Dobbs in 1762 for desertion. Constructed in 1748, Fort Johnston was the first fort built in North Carolina. It was located near the mouth of Cape Fear River.
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44546
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Enslaved people were hired out by their owners to work to construct the old capitol building, completed in 1840. One document giving information concerning enslaved workers involved with the old state capitol. is "Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Superintend Rebuilding of the State Capitol, published in 1834.
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44547
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"An Interview with Alice Shahan, digital archivist at the State Archives of North Carolina." Making sure records in the digital repository remain unchanged in any way in the State Archives digital repository, Shahan notes there is a misconception that the preservation process is served once something becomes digital. In actuality, it's a long-term management issue that requires constant verification using software tools.
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44598
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The author, a Harkers Island native and teacher notes the work of her father, Wayne Davis, a 1987 founding member and first president of the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild. What originally started out as a necessity for luring real ducks into a shooting range, aided in promoting the local economy as visitors began to be impressed with decoys as an art form.
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44602
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In 1924, a group assembled to support construction of a state art museum. In 1947, the North Carolina legislature set aside one $1 million for the purpose. Almost ten years later the museum opened its doors on Morgan street in Raleigh. The North Carolina Museum of art is credited as the first state sponsored art museum in the nation
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Making discovery of a redware pie plate at a Lexington County Fair in 1917, Jacques and Juliana Busbee founded Jugtown Pottery to showcase the work of North Carolina potters in the Seagrove community. After Jacques's death in 1947, Juliana was assisted by Ben Owen.
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44597
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North Carolina currently has three thriving schools dedicated to teaching such practices as weaving, ceramics, musical instrument making, book and jewelry making, carving and old-time music. These institutions are: Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft, Penland School of Craft and the John C. Campbell Folk School.
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44596
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By the 1890s, North Carolina had lured a significant furniture manufacturing industry and became known as the Furniture Capitol of the World. This was all the in Piedmont region of North Carolina within a 150 mile radius of High Point.
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44001
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A film, "Friends in Liberty" produced in 2009 by the North Carolina Museum of History is based on Hugh McDonald's 18 century memoir recording early events of the American Revolution in North Carolina. McDonald was a teenager when he joined the conflict. McDonald's memoir describes the Battle of Moores Creek, notes a parade on July 4, 1777 in Philadelphia and a memorable experience where McDonald and his platoon of 16 teenagers were brought before George Washington and honored after have broken through lines four times during the Battle of Germantown.
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43999
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In 1775, Governor Dunmore of Virginia offered freedom to African Americans enslaved by Patriots if they would serve the British Army. An estimated 3,000 Black men, women and children fled North Carolina with the British to Canad during the conflict. Another 5,000 Black men chose to fight with the American army. Some like Ned Griffen were compensated but others struggled to gain the respect they deserved, particularly in later years as southern states tightened restrictions on free and enslaved persons.
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Federalists believed the United States would fail without a stronger central government and supported ratification and adoption of the Constitution. Perhaps nowhere in the new nation was the battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists more contested than in North Carolina. Initially the state voted in Hillsborough in 1788 not to ratify the document but at the same time did not reject it. Another convention in Fayetteville in 1789 eventually succeeded when protections argued by the Anti-Federalists were met with amendments to the Constitution.
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