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During the nation's golden era of amusement parks (1950s-70s, North Carolina became a mini mecca of distinctly themed parks. discussed are; Tweetsie Railroad, Land of Oz, Santa's Land, Gold City, Ghost Town in the Sky, Cherokee Wonderland and Frontier Land.
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Camp Catawba, a boys' summer camp in rural Watauga County was founded by Vera Lachmann, a native of Berlin. The camp closed after the summer of 1970.
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A new group of collaborators is interested in seeing the Southern Appalachian start making changes to regional roads so that humans and animals can coexist in harmony.
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"For a few decades, at least, the kingdom thrived as one of the only independent enclaves of its type in the American South. But then, almost as suddenly as it appeared, the Happy Land became a veritable lost colony." In exchange for needed farm labor, Serepta Davis sold the group of former slaves 180 acres of her planation that became the nucleus for "The Happy Land".
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Hunter, former vice-president of sales with Brevard based Sylvan Sport launched Black Folks Camp Too in 2019 as a for profit enterprise engaged in assisting outdoor gear companies and government tourism agencies in promoting outdoor recreation to more Black folks.
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Jere Brittain recalls a period from 197, when a TVA megaproject threatened placing 14 dams on tributaries of the upper French Broad River in four North Carolina counties. Documents denote the Mills River’s dam would result in a lake that would cover 660 acres, bordered by 14 miles of shoreline and likewise displace an estimated 60 Mills River families, including Brittain’s.
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Eda Rhyne Distillery specializes in unique blends of native medicinal plants into spirits and liquors.
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42728
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Buncombe County native, Henry Vance Pickens, a Confederate veteran, joined with partners to incorporate the French Broad Steamboat Company in 1880. He secured Congressional assistance to have the French Broad dredged and in 1881, the first steamboat on the river the Mountain Lily made its maiden voyage.
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42729
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Brennan Johnson runs the Walnut Schoolhouse in Marshall where he teaches workshops in the rustic art of bread making.
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34378
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The City of Asheville is home to the world’s largest storehouse of data measuring the Earth’s weather and climate. In 2015, Asheville became the headquarters of the National Centers for Environmental Information and the steward of over twenty-five petabytes of data consolidated on servers at the Veach-Baley Federal Complex in the city’s center. A new conference called ClimateCon will solidify Asheville as a “Climate City” and key player in developing solutions to climate change.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2018,
p21-22, il, por, map
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Carl Ernest Duckett, born in Swannanoa, North Carolina in 1923, served as the Central Intelligence Agency’s top science official. A collection of declassified documents unveiled Duckett’s role as a key player in high-tech espionage at the height of the Cold War, which he quietly helped win. Duckett oversaw secret programs including U-2 surveillance flights, the agency’s CORONA spy satellites, and its Glomar Explorer mission to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the ocean’s depths.
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Leah Wong Ashburn is president of Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, a business that was started by her father, Oscar Wong, in 1994. Since 2011, Ashburn has dedicated herself to maintaining the uniqueness of the brewery, while incorporating her own values and marketing expertise. Under Ashburn’s leadership, the brewery is committed to environmental stewardship and sustainability, and cultivates a hiring process that seeks out character over expertise.
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Brothers Tim and Matt Nichols run one of the largest Japanese maple tree operations in the country, propagating and shipping more than one-thousand cultivars. Their business, Mr. Maple nursery, is located in East Flat Rock, Henderson County. In addition to the maples, the Nichols brothers grow nearly five-hundred other kinds of woody ornamental shrubs, including varieties of ginkgo trees and dawn redwoods.
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The town of Dillsboro, located less than three miles from the Jackson County seat of Sylva, hosts a vast array of arts, crafts, eateries, and outdoor recreation opportunities. Among the must-see attractions are Dogwood Crafters, Toad in the Hole, Tree House Pottery, Dillsboro Chocolate Factory, Dillsboro River Company, Appalachian Women’s Museum, American Museum of the House Cat, Haywood Smokehouse, The Well House, and Jackson County Green Energy Park.
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Author Charles Frazier, born in Asheville and raised in Cherokee County, has a deep family ancestry in the Appalachian region of North Carolina. Frazier’s first novel, Cold Mountain, was a depiction of Appalachia, its culture and people. His latest work, Varina, is a biography of Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and delves into the culpability of the Civil War and the South’s legacy of slavery.
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