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The North Carolina Shipbuilding Company produced 126 Liberty ships during World War II. Three of those ships, WILLIAM MOULTRIE, NATHANIEL GREENE, and VIRGINIA DARE, received the honored title of \"Gallant Ship.\" On board the VIRGINIA DARE sailed Francis J. Fleischer, a Maritime Academy cadet. Fleischer sailed on the VIRGINIA DARE on a convoy bound for Murmansk, Russia, in September 1942. The ship was to have sailed with the ill-fated convoy PQ-17, but was assigned to PQ-18 instead. The VIRGINIA DARE, however, came under constant attack while on its way to Russia. The ship returned to America having shot down seven German aircraft.
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There are many ways to tell if it is going to rain besides the newspaper. Folk traditions involve things such as: the direction a lizard sits on a fence post, the location of a spider web, the way fireflies fly, where cows lie down, and cricket songs. The most important predictions are made on July 15, the day honoring St. Swithin's, the patron saint of the farmer. Current weather phenomena might also predict future weather. It is said, for example, fog on a southerly wind will bring rain, while halos around the sun foretell stormy weather.
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O. Henry, as William Sydney Porter called himself, might have been recorded shortly before his death in 1910. Although some remember hearing him on a radio program celebrating Thomas Edison's birthday, no recording has been uncovered yet. Porter was known to have a pleasing voice, but was shy and reserved. He lived in New York City and spent his days wondering around, observing others. These observations created ideas for his short stories. Porter also wished to remain anonymous, hence his pen name.
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In April 1985, Greensboro celebrated a week-long festival for the seventy-fifth anniversary of William Sydney Porter's death. Porter, known as O. Henry, was born in Greensboro September 11, 1862. His mother, Mary Virginia Jane Swaim, was the daughter of the Greensboro Patriot's editor. Swaim was influential in Porter's writing career because she encouraged his interest in literature. Porter left Greensboro for Texas in 1890. He was convicted of embezzlement and spent three years in the Ohio State Penitentiary. Porter finally settled in New York City, where he died in 1910. Festival activities in Greensboro included literary competitions, plays, concerts, and exhibits related to O. Henry's short stories.
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Along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Alleghany County, a cabin sits below the Doughton Park lookout. This cabin was the home of the Caudill family at the beginning of the 20th-century. Martin Caudill settled in the Wildcat Rock area after the Civil War, and with his wife raised 22 children.
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Soldiers spent very little time in actual combat during the Civil War. Most of their time, particularly during winter camp, they spent staving off boredom. Neither the Confederate or Federal governments invested in recreational or educational activities for their soldiers. One outlet soldiers found was singing. During the period, 1861-1865, over 500 songs were written and published as sheet music. Songs such as “The Shiloh Victory,†“Manassas Polka,†“Sumpter, A Battle of 1861,†and “Home, Sweet Home†gained popularity during the war. At times, both sides engaged in singing duels across the lines with each side trying to sing louder than the other, while other times both sides would join and sing together. Regiments formed glee clubs and bands, with some members gaining fame. One famous soldier-musician was Sidney Lanier. He was a popular flutist who later became the first flutist of the Peabody Symphony Orchestra. Lanier also gained fame as a writer.
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In 1982 the East Carolina Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society became the new owners of a six-mile rail spur in Wake County. The society bought the line after the Southern Railway closed it down. Southern Railway assisted the society by selling the line at scrap value. The rail line was named The New Hope Valley Railway and it runs from Bonsal to New Hill. The railway society has also purchased rolling stock that include two engines, a porter car, two cabooses, two flat cars, two freight cars, and an old Southern Postal car. The society holds workdays for its members one Saturday a month. On these days maintenance work is completed by the members themselves. About twice a year the rail line is open to the public for rail demonstrations. The society hopes that through donations and fund raising activities the railway will become permanently open to the public as a museum.
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Hinkle uncovered a copy of his grandmother's The New Dixie Cook Book published in 1896. This book gave details on how a housewife could maintain a clean home and a well run kitchen. The book included directions on how to make homemade soaps and suggested using chemicals such as iron sulfate, sprinkled on a clean floor to prevent malarial exhalations. Suggestions were also made about the husband's role in moving heavy objects for cleaning. The book finally suggested that women not work themselves too hard and that they take time to rest and count their blessings.
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The Appalachian Consortium was formed in 1971 to preserve the Appalachian mountain heritage of music, speech, literature, and traditions. The original members of the consortium were Appalachian State University, East Tennessee State University, Mars Hill College, and Lees-McRae College. The consortium now has a board of directors and five committees: administration, regional, cooperation and development, heritage and folklife, publications, and Appalachian studies. The most important accomplishment of the organization is the creation of the Appalachian Consortium Press, which has published more than twenty-five books, fueling enthusiasm for the cultural and history of the area.
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In 1884, Mrs. Emily C. Prudden, a deaf, middle-aged, and former New England housemother visited the Francis Garretts in Gastonia concerning establishment of a girls' school. Mrs. Prudden continued to travel across western North Carolina establishing one or more schools in various towns. She prearranged benefactors for each school, as well as procured individual and organizational contributions. In 1888, she established Lincoln Academy at All Healing Springs, the first of seven schools she founded for blacks. She never asked for payment or recognition for her efforts, and none of the fifteen schools she built in her thirty-year career bore her name.
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Mrs. Katherine Sweet Babington was born in 1815 in Chatham County. She grew up around the Masonry traditions and in her late teens began spying on initiations in the Masonic Hall for an entire year until she was caught. Since she had learned all the order's signs, symbols, words and secrets, the prominent Masons decided to administer to her the three degrees of Masonry and she became a Master Mason. Although, in 1712 one other woman in Ireland had become a Mason, Mrs. Babington was the first woman Master Mason in the history of the Masonic order. She died in Shelby, NC in 1886.
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In 1940, two government agencies, the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Federal-State Agricultural Extension Service, organized the Federal-State mattress-making program. This program allocated 4,600 bales of cotton from North Carolina warehouses to assist low-income farming families. Families applied for the program, and, if they were accepted, they paid a small fee for needles and thread and were then shown how to sew up to three mattresses per family. For most of the families, it was the first mattress they had ever owned. When the program ended two years later, over 220,000 mattresses had been made.
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Warren Wilson College, located about ten miles east of Asheville near Swannanoa, is a unique four-year coeducational college which boasts a wide variety of ethnic groups. It was founded ninety years ago by the United Presbyterian Church as the Asheville Mountain Farm School For Boys. The 460 students also work fifteen hours a week learning carpentry, electrical work, plumbing, landscaping, painting, cooking, office skills, gardening, forestry, and photography. The 1,070-acre campus is becoming self-sufficient because students maintain a 300-acre farm located on the campus.
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Simon Ferdinando was arrested in 1578 and tried for piracy. Later that year he was taken from prison, and, because of his superb nautical talents, was employed to accompany Sir Humphrey Gilbert on the first voyage to exploit America for England. In 1580, Ferdinando explored the coastline of North America and guided colonial expeditions, some to the North Carolina coast. What is now Oregon Inlet used to be named “Port Ferdinando.†Ferdinando became master and pilot of the ship which carried Sir Walter Raleigh's agents to Carolina and back. When he grew too old to go to sea he became an advisor to the newly chartered East India Company.
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The original Cloudland Hotel, a twenty-room room log structure atop Roan Mountain, was constructed in 1879 by L. B. Searle of Chattanooga, TN. After a fire in 1880 destroyed the resort, the landowner, General John Thomas Wilder, replaced the log cabin with a 166-room hostelry, built on the North Carolina/Tennessee line. Wilder called it “The Great Southern Resort for Hay Fever†and said its mountain air, at a more than 6,000-foot elevation, and its fresh cold water helped people with respiratory problems. This drew visitors from all over the country for two decades. Its doors closed in 1903 and the hotel was demolished in 1919. Only the foundation remains.
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