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On November 23, 1877, the USS HURON sailed through North Carolina waters on its way to the West Indies. The ship was caught in a terrible storm and ran ashore in the middle of the night. Of the 132 crew members, only thirty-four survived. Wreckage of the HURON can still be seen on the Outer Banks near Nag's Head.\r\n
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In the first half of the 20th-century, many families who were not affluent had to spend their summers at home rather than vacationing elsewhere. However, they often found much to do in their hometowns. Most towns had a Silver Cornet Band, a baseball team, and a trolley line. People threw parties at the trolley's terminus, and often visited family members who lived in rural areas. A continuation of this article appears in the July 1978 edition of THE STATE.\r\n
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Arnold Pope is one of the best caber tossers in the nation. He began weightlifting in high school and is currently a religion professor at Methodist College in Fayetteville. He has won the North Carolina Olympic-style lifting championships seventeen years in a row, and participates in the Scottish Games heptathlon each year. Arnold was the first American to win the caber toss in Scotland, and he credits much of his success to his wife, Barbara.\r\n
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Hot Springs in Madison County became a tourist attraction in 1778 when the Patton brothers of Asheville built a hotel big enough to house 1000 guests. The springs, rumored to have amazing healing powers, drew throngs of tourists. The original hotel burned in 1830 but was replaced the following year. This hotel burned in 1920 and was once more replaced by a hotel that burned in 1976. Since then, the springs have been less popular.\r\n
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Ed Adkins of Mount Airy has been making stained glass windows for churches and homes for over twenty-five years. Atkins draws his designs on heavy brown paper and traces individual glass shapes from his sketch. The pieces are then baked in a kiln and soldered together with lead.\r\n
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John T. Capps of Dunn founded the Bald-Headed Men of America (BHMA) three years ago. Membership has soared to over 3,500 and Dunn is now known as “the bald-headed capital of the world.†Capps speaks at conventions and meetings coast-to-coast, and uses humor to help further his idea that “bald is beautiful.â€\r\n
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The Chattooga River was important for the “Under the Hill†Cherokees. William Bartram wrote about the river in 1776 as did botanist Arthur Devernon Huger much later. The river changes with the seasons, and the banks are lined with ancient pines and hemlocks as well as sapling maples and basswoods.\r\n
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Each year, divers charter boats on the North Carolina coast to take them to the underwater shipwrecks in the GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC. Four German U-boats from World War II are in these waters, and one of them, the U-352, was discovered in 1975. Located 115 feet down, the remains of ten Nazi sailors as well as an unfired torpedo rest in the hull of the submarine.\r\n
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Found in the collection of Count Alain de Suzannet of Switzerland, a series of drawings and writings of Greensboro native William Sydney Porter has recently been bought for the Greensboro Public Library. Porter, better known as O. Henry, drew political cartoons and several of these, along with part of a script to his play “Lo,†are included in the collection.\r\n
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Dr. Benjamin Ershoff and Dr. Samuel Wildman, both research biologists at the University of California at Los Angeles, have recently discovered the tobacco leaf contains the protein fraction-1. Fraction-1 contains all of the essential amino acids and can be used to supplement low-protein diets and help to meet nutritional requirements of patients suffering gastro-intestinal disorders. The protein yield from an acre of tobacco is four times that of a soybean field, and tobacco protein has no odor or taste.\r\n
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Swiss-born Moravian Christian Winkler first came to Salem in 1807 where he and his descendants operated a bakery until the late 1920s. In 1968, Old Salem, Inc. restored the building, and manager Mary Jane Smith and her employees make Moravian breads, cookies, and cakes. They wear outfits appropriate to the time period, and still use the big brick oven originally installed in the bakery. In 1977, Winkler Bakery began packaging and selling its sugar cake mix so that people could make the confection in their own homes.
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Recently, two hundred deaf people in Charlotte received telephone-teletypes, or TTYs. Volunteers in a group called Contact operate as a go-between, connecting TTY users to people with regular phones. The volunteers also schedule doctors' appointments and dinner engagements. Currently, the only emergency agency with a TTY is the Charlotte Police Department which has so far proven ineffectual in responding to distress calls sent via the TTY.\r\n
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A continuation of a piece started in the June 1978 issue of THE STATE. The continuation discusses pastimes such as picnicking and warehouse dancing.\r\n
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Founded by John Andrews Rice in 1933, Black Mountain College operated in Buncombe County town until 1965. The school never had more than fifty or so students, rarely held formal examinations, and allowed students to study as fast or as slowly as they wished. The exit examinations were grueling, but the school attracted some of the finest professors in writing, painting, sculpting, and music. Due to a lack of funding, the school closed in 1965.\r\n
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Charles Armand Tuffin, Marquis de la Rouerie, was made an American colonel in Philadelphia in 1777. He fought in many battles during the Revolutionary War and enlisted volunteers in North Carolina. He returned to France in 1784. He died of pneumonia and battle wounds received near Saint Malo, France on January 30, 1793. Recently published letters from George Washington and other leading figures of the time show the Marquis to have been well-respected and highly admired. \r\n
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