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Denver artist Tom Owen, who studied art at East Carolina University, strives for realism in his paintings. Some of his creations are so realistic that it is difficult to distinguish them from photographs.
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The Charles B. Aycock State Historic Site in Wayne County honors the state's education governor. Among his accomplishments were raising school appropriations, state textbook adoptions, and creation of 877 rural school libraries.
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Charlotte artist Werner Willis' oil or watercolor paintings include commercial projects and fine art. A recent series of four paintings portrays Charlotte landmarks, like Dilworth Pavilion, during the 1890s.
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Public transportation entered a new phase on February 1, 1889, when trolley service began in Asheville and later across the state. Though popular, equipment costs and rising upkeep, plus the automobile's popularity, led to its end in 1948.
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Between 1850 and 1920, the Tyson and Jones Buggy Company in Carthage made the country's finest horse-drawn buggies. Although innovative - introducing the first rubber-tired buggy, for example - the company could not compete with the automobile.
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Hired by the Charlotte City Council for a short stint in 1927, Frank Littlejohn stayed, rising through the ranks over the next thirty years to become chief of police. Called \"the finest detective in America\" by J. Edgar Hoover, Littlejohn was a tireless worker in the pursuit of lawbreakers. In 1958, he was ousted as chief by the city council, who wanted a political appointee as presiding officer in the City Recorder's Court. The chief of police usually handled this job.
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William S. Powell, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a leading authority on the state's history. Powell was appointed curator of the university library's North Carolina Collection in 1958 and later joined the history department in 1973. His works and awards are numerous. One of his best-known works is North Carolina Through Four Centuries, a work that has been called the preeminent North Carolina history book.
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The greyhound racetracks at Morehead City and Moyock once were the only dog tracks between Boston and Florida, shortly after the end of World War II. Between 1948 and 1953, over $35 million was wagered. However, churches and some leaders in those communities opposed dog track betting. Also there was fear that gambling syndicates were involved. In 1954, the N.C. State Supreme Court ruled the dog tracks illegal and overturned a 1939 law that allowed gambling at the tracks and the tracks themselves.
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Carl Sandburg, one of the country's greatest poets and authors, purchased a house with 240 acres in Flat Rock in 1945. What surprises many people is the reason he and his family moved from Michigan. His wife, Lilian, had a business raising Chikaming goats. She was seeking a more temperate climate for her herd, considered one of the nation's finest. Sandburg wrote his only novel, Remembrance Rock, there. After his death in 1967, his home became a National Historic Site.
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Held every year the second week in July at Grandfather Mountain, the Highland Games and Gathering of the Scottish Clans brings together descendants of 127 clans from around the world. The clans come to celebrate their heritage with music, song, dance, and athletic competition. In North and South America the Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain rank as the premier event for those of Scottish heritage.
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Weymouth, novelist James Boyd's 9,000-square-foot home in Southern Pines, was a meeting ground for the Boyds and many of the country's best writers in the 1920s and 30s. When the house was put up for sale after the Boyds' death, state poet laureate Sam Ragan led efforts that saved it from developers in the 1970s. Today Weymouth hosts many functions and also continues literary traditions with a Writers-in-Residence Program that grants writers two-week residencies to work on their projects.
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Called the \"Pleasure Palace of the South,\" the Lumina, built at Wrightsville Beach in 1905, was 25,000 square feet of fun, swimming, and dancing. For little or no money people could dance to the music of Kay Kaiser or Guy Lombardo. The building, illuminated by thousands of lights, was \"the place to be\" from 1910 to 1940. In 1973, it was torn down to make space for apartments and condominiums.
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Hendersonville, county seat of Henderson County, is attractive to tourists and retirees because of its moderate climate, beautiful scenery, and quiet charm. Every August since 1938 the city holds the Annual North Carolina Apple Festival, which marks the apple harvest. Other local attractions include the Flat Rock Playhouse, Pisgah National Forest, and Carl Sandburg's home.
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Early America was explored for plants by hundreds of European botanists. André Michaux, France's most eminent botanist, was one of them. A world traveler, he came to America with his son in 1785, for what became ten years of exploration. He collected thousands of specimens, and his travels in North Carolina took him as far as the Black Mountains. He was the first white man to set foot in those mountains. In 1802, he journeyed to Madagascar, where he contracted a rare tropical fever and died.
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The C. S. S. Neuse, a Southern ironclad built near Kinston during the Civil War, never saw combat. Measuring 158 feet long and 55 feet in width, the ship was protected by four inches of iron on its hull. It took from 1862 to 1864 to built the ship because of a shortage of workers and materials. When the Neuse was ordered to battle at New Bern, it stuck on a sandbar and later returned to port. It was scuttled in 1865 to avoid capture. The Neuse was raised in 1965, and the remains are displayed at the C. S. S. Neuse State Historic Site in Kinston.
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