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Hotel Robert E. Lee was built shortly after World War I and hosted many of Raleigh's elite during World War II. A famous portrait of Robert E. Lee that hung in the hotel lobby was rescued by the United Daughters of the Confederacy before the building was razed in 1971. Today, Hyatt House has both the site and the painting.
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Twelve miles south of Mount Pisgah on the Blueridge Parkway, Graveyard Fields is home to some of the finest scenery in the country. On Labor Day, the opening of blueberry season is celebrated here, and dedicated pickers are known to camp out for days at a time. Although wild blueberries grow all over the state, Graveyard Fields draws a crowd because of its breathtaking views.
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Remnants of the pound net, originally used by Croatan Indians and depicted in John White's drawings, can still be seen in North Carolina rivers of today. The pound nets of today are more sophisticated, but still lead fish into a trap and hold them there. A full size net is on display at the North Carolina Marine Resources Center on Roanoke Island.
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County-by-county listing of good news from 1980 includes awards won and new buildings or renovations begun or completed. The Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts opened in Waynesville last year and Bertie County organized a Crime Watch Program.
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Working on her turntable, Betty Kendall of Haywood County makes small lifelike animals out of clay. Her husband, Jim, makes jars and bowls on which Betty mounts her animals. Currently, the Kendall's work can be purchased at fifteen sales outlets in five states.
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The author's personal account of traveling state-to-state on the railroad in the 1930s. The author's father was a railroad president and could therefore get free train tickets for himself and his family.
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North Carolina folklore plays heavily on New Year's Day. For instance, if the first bird you see flying is flying low, you will be sick most of the year. It is bad luck to throw out dirty water or to wash clothes on New Year's Day.
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Merchants Thomas Stephens Memory and Thomas George Simms met on a train in 1850. Through they years, they developed a friendship. Memory named his son Simms Memory and Simms named his daughter Memory Simms. The two children grew up, fell in love, married, and moved to Whiteville where they lived happily for fifty years. Portraits of the couple are in the home of Emily Memory Peal at Chadbourn.
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Wilbur Tyndall, president of the Pink Hill Supply Company, has been in the business of selling John Deere tractors for twenty-six years. In his large collection of farm equipment, Tyndall has a replica of the first steel two-horse plow that Deere forged in 1837. He keeps his museum in a renovated garage and it is open to the public.
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Cherokee legend says animals created human disease when they grew tired of men hunting them. The medicine man observed the effects of plants on animals when diagnosing treatment for sick tribesmen. In 1971, the Food and Drug Administration concluded a study on 2,000 Cherokee medicines and found 39% to be effective.
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Pole Hollow, a small valley between Pinnacle and Pilot Mountain, played host to Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. and his mother in 1910. Only five-years-old at the time, Reynolds was part of the famous Reynolds tobacco manufacturing family, and his mother asked everyone to call him “Dick.â€
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In 1877, Governor Zeb Vance began his third term, deeply concerned about the state of the North Carolina State Library. He enlisted the help of Cornelia Phillips Spencer from Chapel Hill to re-catalogue the entire collection. Once the catalogue was complete, the collection had to be reorganized by State Librarian Sherwood Haywood. Spencer's catalogue, if published, did not survive.
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The First Baptist Church in Durham hosts a yearly Christmas choir recital. The choir is composed of fifth and sixth graders, the junior high school chorus, and the high school chorus. The high school chorus is directed by the head of the music department at Central High, William Powell Twaddell, nicknamed The Professor. The program lasts for an hour and a half.
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Olney Presbyterian Church of Gastonia has a graveyard with one particularly interesting grave. The tombstone of William Barnes, who died in 1823, is inscribed with the phrase “aged 218 years.†Although there is no acceptable explanation for why the marker reads this way, members of the church today do not think Barnes lived to be 218.
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Born in 1760, George Gist preferred his Cherokee name, Sequoyah. Borrowing English letters, Sequoyah created an eighty-six sound syllabary of the Cherokee language. He presented his syllabary to the Cherokee council in 1819, and the council moved to establish schools. After a time, Sequoyah moved west and migrated to Mexico, after which his whereabouts were not known.
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