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29342
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The Charlotte, Rockingham and North Wilkesboro speedways are North Carolina’s “Big 3” stock car tracks, attracting thousands of people to the state each year. As many as eighteen drivers in a forty-car Grand National race lineup will be North Carolina residents this year, including national champions Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty.
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Summer in North Carolina is filled with festivals, Shakespeare, modern dance and classical music. Summer in the “State of the Arts” brings a whole range of cultural events to attract the native or out-of-state vacationer. One of the biggest events is the Brevard Music Festival, which features seven weeks of chamber music, ballet, symphonies, pop concerts, and musicals.
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North Carolina has ten outdoor dramas, more than any other state. The biggest assets of these open-air performances are music and spectacle. Among the most popular productions includes, The Lost Colony, North Carolina’s first modern outdoor drama in Dare County.
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29370
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Six reputable wine merchants across North Carolina offered their insight into learning about wines. They advised how to describe the taste of wine, and matching its characteristics with a customer’s particular preferences. They also discussed wine availability, distribution, retailers, and state regulations.
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The University of North Carolina Center for Public Television is working to push forward in an era of heated competition for viewers, programming, and money. The center plans to expand the geographic reach through new transmitters, acquire additional programs, and improve its production standards. By next fall, North Carolinians can tune in their local public television station every night to find out the latest important developments in the state.
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29372
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More than seven-hundred different kinds of shell-bearing animals exist in North Carolina’s estuarine and marine waters. For seashell collectors, the most popular types of shells found in the state are hinged bivalves and gastropods. This guide offers advice on the best places and times to search for shells.
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29374
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North Carolina watercraft descended from a long and rich maritime tradition. Wind and water, geography and topography, culture and economics shaped the state’s distinctive watercraft, and the boats shaped the lives of generations of watermen and fishermen. The shape and structure of boats, such as shad boats and sharpies, have evolved over time, but the boat-building traditions continue.
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29375
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North Carolina’s coastal region, with its multiplicity of small islands, inlets and coves, offered hiding places for pirates. These areas also gave pirates access to isolated coastal towns, major sea routes and commercial shipping. The legends of pirates, such as Blackbeard, live on in North Carolina, and today, they are depicted in outdoor dramas and plays.
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Senator Morgan offered his opinion about current conditions in Washington DC and information about his involvement in committees such the Church Committee. Touched upon also were his opinions about President Carter’s performance during the first one hundred days in office, John F. Kennedy’s assassin, and NC’s justice system.
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35621
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Visions of the Tarheel State discussed were that of native sons CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt and realist painter Bob Timberlake. Discussed also was the book they were collaborating of, The Bob Timberlake Collection, featuring Timberlake’s artwork and Kuralt’s marginalia commentary. Interspersed with information about the book was their biographical information.
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Owen’s return to his hometown revealed little had changed during his years away in college working on a Bachelor’s degree and present work with a Master’s. One illustration was daily activity at the local general store. As he discovered, it was still a site for yarns, but not of the sewing circle sort: it was the creative license a narrator used to stitch together a tale.
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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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The last hermit: Carlton Seely, originally from Virginia, settled in seclusion for a majority of his eighty eight years. An irony of his hermit identity: the friendliness of a certain group of people encouraged him to settle. Otherwise, the identity was earned in the closer communion he had with nature than the nearby townsfolk for much of his life in Uwharrie National Forest.
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The town named from a Revolutionary War general was a study in contrasts. It was home to attractive houses and unattractive city sprawl, a NC town with deep English colonial roots and Asian, Greek, and Italian communities. It became home to 30,000 plus veterans returning post retirement, often the same soldiers who resented their time at Fort Bragg. It had experienced much recent business growth in the past two decades, evident in businesses such as the convention-motel entertainment complex. Nevertheless, an economic home base could be found in the old part of the city, particularly in places like the Market House.
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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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