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The North Carolina Foreign Language Center was born in 1975. It is now housed at the Gillespie Street Branch Library in Fayetteville. The center was created through the Library Services and Construction Act, which mandated that certain funds to go toward materials for non-native English speakers. At the time, libraries throughout the state held some materials for non-native English speakers; however, the collections tended to be small and focused on particular groups. Marian Leath, then Assistant State Librarian, and David Warren, Director of Cumberland County Library, wrote the grant proposal for the North Carolina Foreign Language Center. The center now houses over 20,400 books and 2,000 tapes in over seventy languages. Materials are available to libraries throughout the state and nation through interlibrary loan. Cost in the interlibrary loan process has caused difficulties for the language center, but no other effective means of getting the materials to patrons has been found.
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Roberts, Leonard\r\nRanlo native Dee Gunnerson survived a shark attack while she was scuba-diving off the Florida coast. Gunnerson was hired as an underwater salvage diver, whose job it was to scout the ocean floor for shipwrecks. On one dive, Gunnerson noticed a seven-foot shark circling around her. She realized that the shark was drawn to the aqua scooter in her hands. Gunnerson dropped the scooter hoping that the shark would chase it. It did not and the shark continued toward her. Gunnerson used her last weapon of defense, her fist. After receiving a timely punch to its nose, the shark swam away. Gunnerson was then able to return to her raft unharmed. \r\n
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Charlotte leaders in 1905 wanted their city to have a “New South†image. To create this, they began construction on the city's first skyscraper. The building was twelve stories tall and was built by Washington, D.C., architect Frank P. Milburn. The structure was named the “Reality Building†and its grand opening was attended by President William Howard Taft. When the building was first opened in 1908, the city had population of 25,000, which meant that there was not enough demand to fill the building's space. By 1927, however, Charlotte's population had risen to over 82,000, and the Reality Building was in great demand. Two floors were added to the building and its name was changed to the “Independence Building.†The structure became outdated over time, and by the 1970s only the first floor was leased to businesses. The property was bought by Faison Associates in 1981 and demolished on September 27, 1981. A new twenty-story structure will be built in its place.
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The painting “Ecce Homo†hangs in Wilmington's St. James Episcopal Church. It got there in a most unusual way. During King George's War, 1739-1748, the English and Spanish governments fought for power in the Caribbean. On September 4, 1748, two Spanish ships, the Fortuna and Loretta, arrived at the shore of the North Carolina town of Brunswick. The townspeople fled the area as the Spanish entered the town. The attackers plundered the city for several days before the colonists fought back. Under the leadership of militia captain William Dry, the colonists pushed the Spanish soldiers out of the town, killing ten and taking thirty prisoners. The Spanish retreated to their ships and shelled the town. The Fortuna caught fire and suddenly exploded, sinking in shallow water. Left without her companion, the Loretta sailed back down the Cape Fear River and headed out to sea. The Spanish had stored their plunder in the Fortuna, however, and fortunately the citizens of Brunswick were able to recover it. They also found the Captain's belongings, which included the painting “Ecce Homo.†They took the painting and placed it in a local church. Eventually, the painting was given to the St. James Episcopal Church in 1770.
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Dr. Francis Joseph Kron built his homestead at the foot of the Uwharrie Mountains in Stanley County during the 1830s. Kron was a medical doctor who would always travel to help a patient, no matter the difficulty in reaching them. According to his diary, Kron spent a lot of time traveling and learning new things. He also taught French at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. Kron's daughters never married and, following the last daughter's death in 1910, the Kron home place fell into disrepair. A legend began that Kron had buried his fortune on his property but had invoked ghosts to keep anyone from ever taking it. Stories have since been told about people who tried to find Kron's gold but were stopped by ghouls. To this day, none of Kron's gold has been found. Either it doesn't exist or just maybe the ghosts have been successful in keeping it safe.
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Bessie Hoyt recalls the two-week revivals she attended as a young girl at Davis, a coastal town on the North Carolina coast. The revivals were called protracted meetings, and they took place during the summer when farm work was light and people could spend time outdoors. Protracted meetings included all-day services that were interrupted only by meals. At the end of each day a hymn of invitation was sung as sinners walked forward and accepted the Lord. Hoyt remembers that the preachers always gave sermons about the wrath of God and his vengeance against sinners. Rarely was the God of love spoken about. At the end of the two-week meeting, all those who had been saved were baptized and accepted into the church. Then, the church members would travel to Core Island for an all-day picnic. Following the picnic, friends would sadly say their goodbyes and the revival was over. The protracted meetings were the forerunner to today's revival services.
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The eleventh president of the United States, James K. Polk, was born in Pineville in 1795. Polk's father, Samuel, believed in free religious thought and did not prescribe to organized religion. At the insistence of his wife, however, Samuel took Polk to be baptized. Because Samuel refused to affirm his religious faith during the ceremony, Reverend James Wallis refused to baptize the baby. Polk never joined a church and was not baptized until 1849 by a friend who was a Methodist minister.
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In 1979, a talented high school senior football player from Idaho by the name of Harry “the Horse†Horseman, was recruited by six professional teams and more than 550 colleges. A. J. Carr, a sportswriter for THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, always had inside information on Harry because Carr had invented Harry. Guilford College's head football coach Charles Forbes announced Harry had signed with his team, a move that brought national recognition to Guilford. Even though Carr and Forbes both admitted he was a fictional character, many people continued to say that Harry was real.
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Cherokee Indians in Asheville still practice the time-honored tradition of basket weaving. A skill that takes years to hone, basket weaving is not for the impatient. It takes hours to prepare the wood splints for weaving, to say nothing of the dyeing process. The designs are all in the heads of the Indians who make the baskets. Several skilled weavers teach classes at Haywood Technical Institute.
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Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church has long had a close relationship with Temple Emmanuel, a nearby Jewish synagogue. Temple Emmanuel was finished in 1924 and First Presbyterian was completed in 1928. One of First Presbyterian's stained-glass windows has a Star of David at its center. Both church buildings were designed and built by architect Hobart Upjohn of New York. Researchers have not been able to find any reference to the star in Upjohn's records, however, so its presence remains a mystery.
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In July 1916, after two tropical storms ripped into North Carolina's mountains within days of each other, the Catawba River in Gaston County flooded. Bridges were washed out, mills were flooded, and several buildings were taken downstream. The Southern Railway trestle collapsed on July 16th,and the nineteen men who had been standing on it died. In total, eighty people died and flood damage topped out at $22 million.
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n 1817, Major Peter Hairston bought 2,570 acres near Mocksville from General Jesse Pearson. It was here that his great-grandson, Peter Wilson Hairston, built Cooleemee Plantation in 1853. Shaped like a Greek cross, the house took two years to complete. A few years ago, it was declared a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior. The plantation remains in the Hairston family who host open houses for the public at least once a year.
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Hill Greene of Boone was ordered to take down his six-hundred-foot American flag after it was found to be in violation of City Ordinance V-4. The ordinance states that no over-sized business signs can be erected along the stretch of highway where Greene's Phillips 66 service station is located. One of Greene's employees, Eddie Cole, wrote to the Watauga DEMOCRAT and the story received national attention. Reporters from CBS, the White House, and even GLOBE, a tabloid out of Canada, flooded Greene's station to cover the story. On June 25th, the city announced it would not be enforcing the regulation in Greene's case, and his flag was allowed to continue flying. The ordinance will probably now be amended.
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During the last weekend of September, Mule Days is held in Benson. Conceived in 1949 by Nowell Smith, Jr., Mule Days is a four-day long festival. There are beauty pageants, livestock sales, nightly dancing, and a three-day rodeo. Mrs. Nowell Smith heads the annual parade as Grand Marshal. Thousands of people attend the festival each year. Although North Carolina's mule population dwindled in the past, it has grown steadily in the last twenty years, spurred in part by Mule Days.
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In 1912, W.J. Grandin came from Pennsylvania to Wilkes County to build the Watauga Railroad. The completed line ran from Wilkesboro to Elkville, where there was a switch. One section of the line went to Gardin and the other to Darby. Although mostly for freight, the train ran one passenger excursion on Sundays. The railroad was ruined by the flood of 1916, and again in 1918, after which it was not rebuilt.
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