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44448
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Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop and Pamlico-Tar Riverkeeper Katey Zimmerman are with Sound Rivers, a local nonprofit that monitors and protects more than 12,000 square miles of two watersheds along the Neuse and Tar-Pamlico Rivers. Sound Rivers was founded in 1980-81.
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44505
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River Forest Manor in Belhaven was constructed in 1899as a home for John Aaron Wilkinson, President of J.L. Roper Lumber Co. In 1933, the home was sold to the James Williams Hines family in 1933. In 1947, Anson Smith purchased the home for $50,000 and branded it River Forest Manor. The Smith family continued to own the home until 2014, when it was purchased by investors who kept it on its same venue.
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44637
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Stephen Farrell is the curator of special collections at the Brown Library. Educated at East Carolina University with background in urban planning and later Tufts Archives in Pinehurst, Farrell stated his job with Brown during COVID in 2020. One of Farrell's goals has been to have a stand alone history center and museum.
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44636
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Ric Carter was a photographer for the Daily News in Washington, N.C. from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He was particularly known for taking quirky pictures of everyday life in Beaufort County.
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44644
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In an effort to promote restoration in Washington historic district, the Washington Area Historic Foundation has had a long-running project for producing Christmas ornaments. The project now in its 29th year, annually features a historic building in modeling the ornament. This year's selection is the Cottage Service Station on Respass and Second Streets.
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44679
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"Black bears draw attention and admiration of some in eastern N.C." Several factors noted for the abundance of black bears in North Carolina include mild winters, access to high protein crops, plentiful food in general aiding more offspring and large areas of uninhabited land. On the question ofblack bears being a human threat, fewer than 80 people have been killed by a black bear since 1900.
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44680
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Tundra swans are migratory birds.. They breed primarily in Alaska and northern Canada and winter on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Between 65,000 and 75,000 tundra swans winter in North Carolina between November and February.
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