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35623
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The journey took the author and her husband through major and minor waterways along the Coast toward their New Jersey destination. What the eventful October adventure proved: home can be aboard a small ship or ashore in the house she was glad to return to.
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35778
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An encounter on a train with a stranger left him the owner of a coat seemingly tailored for him and a pocketful of dollars that seemed like pennies from heaven. From that meeting and gifts, Owen was taught this lesson: the best gifts aren’t always wrapped up in a box and bow.
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29341
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North Carolina writer, Reynolds Price, has a new novel called, The Source of Light. Price also teaches courses on narrative technique and theory at Duke University. An interview with Price discusses his family background and events that inspired him to become a writer.
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29190
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In the early 1900s, mountain households in North Carolina were prepared for most illnesses and emergencies no matter what season. The author describes mountain living during that time and how his family made home remedies of natural herbs. To supplement herbs, farm produce was traded for medicine supplied at the country store.
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29188
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North Carolina’s oldest local agricultural celebration, the Chadbourn Strawberry Festival, will open on April 30 and continue until May 5. The strawberry industry in Columbus County began in 1895 and reached its peak in 1907 when Chadbourn was declared the Strawberry Capital of the World. The festival celebrates the industry and traditions with a parade, bake sale, contest and auction.
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A fragile wilderness could be found in Merchants Millpond State Park, on the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp. Despite its fragility, it had an important place and long history in the area. During the nineteenth century, the Millpond contained a gristmill, wheat mill, and sawmill. By the twentieth century, it had become the largest trading center in Gates County. Its present purpose: a viable habitat for animals such as river otters and plant species such as the water violet. As for the State Park’s benefits to humans, that included activities such as camping and backpacking, drawing and guided tours.
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Fort Defiance, the Caldwell County home of Revolutionary War General William Lenoir, takes its name from a local frontier fort of the late 1700s. In 1965, the Lenoir family sold the home and all its furnishings to the Caldwell County Historical Society. Now a local historic site, the home has been restored to its 1792 appearance.
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The Lafayette House was built before 1790 on land adjoining Contentnea Creek in Lenoir County. At that time England ruled the land and the county was named Dobbs. After 1890, the house became a tenant house and then a vacant house. Gerald Tripp purchased the house for restoration in 1979. Harker describes the work on the house, which had never known plumbing, central heat, wiring, and the telephone before the Tripps installed them.
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A house called Lafayette is one of the few reminders left in Lenoir County of the time when the British ruled the land and the county was named Dobbs. Built by the Whitfield family before 1790, the house remained mostly vacant for nearly a century. After much vandalism and folklore, Lafayette was renovated and preserved.
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Terra Ceia, which means “heavenly earth,†is located near Washington, N.C. The community originated in the 1920s, when a New York investment company recruited thirty-five Dutch families to settle there and develop the area as farmland. Stanley traces the history of the community, emphasizing its prominence in the tulip growing business.
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A visit with Newman and Geneva Levi of Green River revealed much about the lifeways of small towns and their people. As evident by this couple, life was still often defined by wood burning stoves and canned vegetables. It was also marked by talks after the time of day still known as daydown, talk including tales of outsiders who didn’t find their visits so pleasant.
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Places in Dare County like Colington Island and the village of Duck offered haven for many creatures of the two legged variety. A book cited by Murray, John Lawson’s A New Voyage to Carolina (1709), also made mention of the Merlins and Swaddle-bills who inspired the first flight made almost two centuries later.
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29282
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Edgar Peters Brown is the new director of the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Brown comes from Kansas City’s famous Nelson Gallery, and has an impressive resume of training in art history and museum curation. He commends the North Carolina Museum of Art for having the most superlative collection of Old Master paintings.
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35821
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Stonework experienced a renaissance in counties like Orange and Macon. The comeback had come from masons Steve Magers, Lyn Walters, Suzanna Stewart, and Tom and Joe Kenlan. Their chimneys were featured as an illustration of stonemasonry at its most creative.
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29262
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This is a guide to North Carolina’s most notable potteries in the Piedmont, from Seagrove to Robins in lower Randolph and upper Moore Counties. Seven potteries are featured, each using traditional pottery techniques, local clays, and a variety of materials.
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