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Jessie Mace learned to dowse for water when he was thirty-five. Now seventy-nine, Mace continues to make his living by finding water for people. Often called in after people have spent thousands of dollars drilling, Mace sites wells for people and is somewhat of a troubleshooter. He says a cherry twig is best when dowsing.\r\n
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This year marked the 82nd Anniversary of the North Carolina Society of New York who honored the North Carolina School of the Arts at its annual celebration. Established in 1965, the school provides professional training for talented young people looking to pursue careers in the performing arts. The NCSA also tours, culturally enriching the region through performances, usually at no cost to audiences.\r\n
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Daintry Allison became a schoolteacher in Beech Log, North Carolina in 1914. This article is an account of her eventful first year based on a taped interview the author conducted with her in Fairview on July 24, 1975.\r\n
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Guilford College Fire Chief Bob Wilson has developed a system to get water from privately owned lakes and ponds to fires more quickly. Now, with hydrants set up at all private lakes and ponds, pumper trucks connect to the hydrant, fill their tanker, and go to the nearby fires.\r\n
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The Klonteska Inn was built by Dr. Robert Douglas Jennings in 1895. Located in Banner Elk, the inn was run by the Jennings who cooked for their guests and Beech Mountain offered a plethora of recreation activities for them. The inn operated until 1928 and was torn down in the early 50s.\r\n
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Leap Year was once very important to bachelors in Britain. Beginning with St. Patrick and St. Bridget, an unwritten law formed saying that during the leap year, any man who was proposed to by a woman and refused her had to buy her a silk dress. Later, women were required to wear scarlet petticoats to indicate they were taking advantage of the law, and men were excommunicated if they refused a proposal.\r\n
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On December 18, 1891, Carolina Shipp was hanged near Dallas in Gaston County. She was the last woman executed on the gallows in North Carolina. Her death was unpleasant and grave robbers exhumed her body the night it was buried. Shipp was accused of killing her baby, but maintained that her boyfriend, Mack Farrar, was the guilty one.
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The umbrella, owned by monarchs and kings in the 12th century B.C., was the first symbol of status. Made of leather and expensive, umbrellas disappeared until the 17th century when it was made with lighter cloth. It was used first by writers and university professors in New England and by doctors in the South.\r\n
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On March 28, 1979, a malfunctioning valve at Three Mile Island Nuclear Facility caused the shutdown of two water pumps. Harold Denton, Rocky Mount native and Director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Reactor Regular, was the man who maintained composure and control and eased the nerves of people in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Today, people still stop Denton and ask for his autograph.\r\n
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The seventh volume of NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS 1861-1865, A ROSTER has just been published. The book gives brief biographies of 10,000 Confederate soldiers in the 22nd through 26th Regiments of North Carolina Troops.\r\n
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Following World War I, car manufacturing increased and color choices were made available. Among them were maroon, dark blue, and grey. It was customary to have a birthday party to mark the car's first year in the family.\r\n
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Arthur Devernon Hugur was one of 19th-century North Carolina's best botanists and published volumes of poetry under the name Chucky Joe. Living in Hendersonville, he wrote often of Herbert's Spring and other places as he traveled through the mountains.\r\n
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The first cotton mill appeared in Gastonia in 1816 and by 1925, Gastonia was the cotton mill capital of the world. The biggest of these, the Loray Mill, began reducing wages resulting in a strike beginning on April 1, 1929. Immediately violence broke out, resulting in shoot outs, fights, and the killing on the police chief on June 7th. A trial, which found seven defendants guilty and sent them to jail, did not begin until August.\r\n
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During mating season, jack rabbits are particularly feisty and will fight with other jacks or even does. North Carolina folklore has it that saying “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit†upon waking up the first morning of a new month will bring good luck for that month. There are also a number of folk stories concerning hunting rabbits.\r\n
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The giant oak tree in J. W. Denny's yard in Surry County is called The Giles Whitaker Tree after the man who built the house that still stands there. At shoulder height, the tree's circumference measures eighteen feet and four inches. Although the age of the tree is unknown, it is not inconceivable for its life to have begun before 1800.\r\n
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