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The second part of a two-part article covering the villainous nature of Blackbeard. The first part appeared in the June 1976 issue of The State. This part details the reward for his capture and his ultimate death.
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9107
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Mike Jacobs of Oxford is one of only two people in the Eastern US who restores old books by hand. Jacobs takes the books apart and sews them back together using waxed Irish linen, a process ensuring the book's eternal survival. Taking between one week and one month, each book restoration includes a new cover board. Jacobs is a disabled veteran whose doctors encourage his hobby but will not allow him to hold a regular job.
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9108
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Novelist John Foster West attended Mars Hill Junior College and later received both his AB and MA from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first novel, TIME WAS, published in 1965, tells the story of his family. In 1968, the novelist became writer-in-residence at Appalachian State University and he has lived in Mt. Pleasant since that time. West continues to write poetry and focuses much of his work on the mountains he calls home.
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Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina is virtually untouched. Home of an impressive collection of the oak-chestnut trees, a virtually extinct species today, Joyce Kilmer Forest is truly a sight to behold. Deer, bear, fox, and bobcat live there, and the Civilian Conservation Corps laid countless forest trails through the woods for visitors.
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Del Cameron of Pinehurst, who became the 19th harness-racing driver to be inducted into the Living Hall of Fame of the Trotter at Goshen, New York, trains trotters and pacers to race the Grand Circuit. Cameron has won over 1,200 races and $4.25 million as a driver. Today, Cameron and his son Gary run their own business, training forty horses, nine of which are their own.
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9111
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The centennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence was observed in Philadelphia in 1876. Although many Southern states still felt resentment toward the North following the Civil War, the Ladies Memorial Association of Wake County decided to provide a flag to the celebration. Raising the necessary funds, the women commissioned Reverend Johannes Adam Simon Oertel to design the flag. The front, of which only one known photograph survives, consisted of the allegorical figures of liberty and prosperity in the center bordered by white oak and holly. The back, of which no picture exists, was an emblematic description of the Old North State. Although the flag was displayed until 1943, it has since been misplaced and efforts to locate it have proven futile.
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9112
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By 1700, ships from the New England Whaling Fleet took advantage of beached whales along North Carolina's coast, using the carcasses to make oil. By 1885, a town of over 500 people lived in Lookout Woods, later called Diamond City, chiefly to whale live specimens. Most of the whales killed were Right Whales, yielding an average of 200 barrels of oil each. Due to a decreased number of whales swimming off the coast, whaling in North Carolina ended around 1899.
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Thomas Wolfe went to England in 1924, the first of four extended trips he made there. Most of his LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL was written in London and Oxford, and since the publishing of his journals in 1970, it is now possible to follow his trek through England. While in Chelsea, Wolfe often wrote 3,000 words a day of his novel. In 1927, Wolfe tired of England and went to Germany which he much preferred.
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9114
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Recently, the gravesite of Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., was discovered. Spaight signed the U.S. Constitution and served as the first native-born North Carolina governor. He died in 1802, and his son, Richard, Jr., also served as governor and is buried in the same small cemetery as his father. The graveyard is located on Brice's Creek Road in New Bern, and the overgrowth has been cleared by a local Boy Scout Troop.
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9115
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The Rhododendron Festival was held in Asheville every year from 1928 through 1942 until the start of the Second World War. The week-long festival consisted of five parades, three balls, a pageant, tours, exhibitions, an amateur tennis championship, and boxing matches. Although the festivals drew people from across the country and were wildly successful, no interest has been made in reviving them.
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Captain Thorvald Peders of Wilmington has been aboard sailing ships since becoming a U.S. citizen in 1914. Today, Peders spends his time building miniature ships and sliding them into bottles, a hobby he picked up while at sea. The miniatures are made with old-fashioned tools including pocketknives and sewing needles. Peders works with pine and mahogany, and his work reminds him of the years he spent on the ocean.
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9124
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On May 21, 1840, the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad ran for the first time from Gaston to the newly completed State Capitol building in Raleigh. This article uses excerpts from two 1840 letters between fifteen-year-old Peter Foster and his father to describe the train and the excitement it stirred in the communities.
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9125
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The Cleveland County Fair pony races have been run since the fair's inception in 1923, and continue to be run today. Although racing in Charlotte and Raleigh died out, Cleveland County racing is spurred on by today's competitors, children of former jockeys. Three races are held on each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of the week-long fair, and prizes are given for the first three places.
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9126
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A. B. Houtz & Sons, Inc., of Elizabeth City manufactures more than 90 percent of all rollers used in the U.S. Preceding the wheel, wooden rollers were used in the construction of the ancient pyramids as well as Stonehenge. Today's rollers are made from blackgum trees, which can withstand the heaviest of loads, and are used in a variety of applications.
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9127
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Davidson College holds the claim of producing the first X-ray picture in the U.S. Three students, Osmond L. Barringer, Eben Hardie, and Pender Porter, broke into the physics lab and the medical school on January, 12, 1896. They stole cathode tubes and severed a broken finger from a cadaver in order to produce the first picture. It was not until much later the three realized they had made history for their alma mater and turned over the photograph. A picture of this X-ray appears in the December, 1976, issues of THE STATE.
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