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6953
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Dr. Don Cameron is president of Guilford Technical Community College. When he arrived at the college in 1981 as executive vice-president, there were 8,000 students enrolled. Funds to award scholarships totaled $600,000. In 2004, the school has an enrollment of 30,000 and a scholarship fund of $4.3 million. Cameron is a big promoter of workforce preparedness and was credited in a 1996 Wall Street Journal article with developing a model program for workforce preparedness. He is featured in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “executive profile.â€
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8430
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George Vanderbilt had a curiosity about nature, and he financially supported extensive botanical activities at his Biltmore estate near Asheville. Five individuals were involved in the botanical work: Chauncy Delos Beadle, Frank Ellis Boynton, Francis Marian Crayton, Charles Lawrence Boynton, and Thomas Grant Harbison. The estate had widespread plant collections, a large herbarium, and a journal, Biltmore Botanical Studies. The botanical work was discontinued after a few years, but it made a significant contribution to the knowledge of the flora of the southeastern United States.
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Journal of the North Carolina Academy of Science
(NoCar Q 11 J68x), Vol. 122 Issue 4, Winter 2006,
p135-141, bibl
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9623
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Natural William Bartram began keeping notebooks on the natural history of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains in 1775. Because of strained relations with North Carolina Indian tribes, he did his work alone and without the help of a guide. Eventually he reached the Cherokee Middle Towns near present-day Franklin in Macon County, where he was welcomed. It is from this point that his journal details descriptions of the Cherokee. His journals, first published in 1791, describe the earliest days of North Carolina and also provide an ethnology of the Indians.
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44230
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In 1753, John Saunders, agent for a British mercantile company made a journey from Suffolk, Virginia to Orange County, N.C. He recorded his travels in a journal that was discovered in a shop in Edenton by a Union solder during the Civil War. It is not certain from that point how it finally made its way back to North Carolina and the North Carolina State Archives. The item records many names places as well as information about living situations at the time. The period covered here is September 1-19, 1753.
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39651
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The Ward family has been in the Beech Mountain area since the Revolutionary War era, and had kept many of their traditions throughout the years. Traditions in the family consist of musicians and musical instrument makers, painters, clothing makers, and more.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 64 Issue 1 & 2, 2017,
p13-17
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9014
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Edward Drinker Cope discovered the Roanoke bass in 1868. He named it Ambloplites cavifrons and published his findings in the Journal of the Academy of Science. Because the fish is not widely found and is restricted to a handful of small rivers, it has gone unstudied for the past 140 years. North Carolina Wildlife Resource Commission biologists Corey Oakley and Brian McRae are engaged in a five-year study of the Roanoke bass that will end in 2008. The study seeks to learn population sizes in the rivers, how the populations are faring, and what needs to be done to protect the fish.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 71 Issue 6, June 2007,
p26-29, il
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12280
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In 1817 Denison Olmsted was appointed professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also had an intense interest in the geology and mineral resources of the state and proposed to the North Carolina Legislature that they hire him to do a survey. Turned down at first, he was later hired by them for the summers of 1824 and 1825. The Olmsted Survey has often been referred to as the first geological survey in the United States and was the first geological work which included publications (most notably The American Journal of Science) carried out at public expense.
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Rachel Regina Holton defied gender roles in the Antebellum South to become the first female newspaper editor in the state and most likely the South. Born in Richmond, Virginia, she moved to Charlotte after marrying Thomas Jefferson Holton in 1834. Mr. Holton ran a paper called Miners and Farmers Journal, later to become The North Carolina Whig. Mr. Holton died in 1860 and Mrs. Holton met the challenge of editing a paper in her husband's absence. She continued to edit the paper for two years until she settled down to manage her real estate, which supplied her income until her death in 1905.
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Edward and Robert Salter operated the first store in Greenville, originally called Martinsborough, in 1776. In Nov. 1778, George Wolfenden advertised he had erected a fulling mill to dye cloth about 10 miles above Red Banks. In the tour journal of William Attmore in 1787, he described Greenville as a village consisting of about fifteen families and a place of some trade. Merchants mentioned include Josiah Wright, James Easton, Reading Blount, Holland Johnston, Grove Wright, James Stewart, John A. Judkins, Franklin Gorham and Benjamin M. Selby. The article discusses other businesses that developed through the 1830s.
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22965
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Edward and Robert Salter operated the first store in Greenville, originally called Martinsborough, in 1776. In Nov. 1778, George Wolfenden advertised he had erected a fulling mill to dye cloth about 10 miles above Red Banks. In the tour journal of William attmore in 1787, he described Greenville as a village consisting of about fifteen families and a place of some trade. Merchants mentioned include Josiah Wright, James Easton, Reading Blount, Holland Johnston, Grove Wright, James Stewart, John A. Judkins, Franklin Gorham and Benjamin M. Selby. The article discusses other businesses that developed through the 1830s.
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Karen are the largest ethnic minority in Burma; fleeing from the Burmese army, they crossed into Thailand to live in refugee camps for years. Being highly persecuted incentivized them to hold onto their culture, especially when they entered new places such as North Carolina. Wai contributes to the perpetuation of the culture through her leadership of a youth group.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 60 Issue 1 and 2, Fall/Summer 2013,
p24-27
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10639
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Vermont 'Bunny' Royster, native of Raleigh and grandson of the founder of Royster Candy, epitomizes the phrase 'local boy makes good.' Never afraid of hard work, Bunny was a bus boy as young man and eventually made his way to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he worked for THE DAILY TAR HEEL and CAROLINA MAGAZINE. After a career in the Navy, Royster moved to New York to work for the WALL STREET JOURNAL and became editor of the most famous financial newspaper in America. Royster retired at age 56 and went back to Chapel Hill to teach journalism at UNC.
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William Prince grew up in Chapel Hill and began drawing an early age. When he was fifteen, the family moved to Alabama, and he later went to New York to study art. In his last year at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, he won a contest for illustrations sponsored by COLLIER'S MAGAZINE. Orders came in slowly from that point, but he eventually become known. For twenty-five years he was an illustrator for magazines like COSMOPOLITAN, LADIE'S HOME JOURNAL, and THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. Now back in Chapel Hill and semi-retired, he still does two magazine illustrations a week.
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38990
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Stephen Decatur Pool, a native of Elizabeth City, NC, was an educator and a newspaper editor. He and his wife operated the Elizabeth City Academy and he became the editor of ‘The Old North State’ in 1850. Pool eventually moved to Carteret County, was a Colonel in the Civil War, and represented Carteret County in the Legislature. After the war, he moved to New Bern, NC, was editor of the ‘New Bern Daily Journal of Commerce,’ and was elected NC Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1874. Being forced to leave this position in 1876, he moved to New Orleans and then settled in Tangipahoa Parish, MS.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 26 Issue No. 3, July 2017,
p68-69
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20025
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The third installment (see volumes XXXI and XXXII of this journal) in a series of articles concerning African Americans during the Civil War, the author focuses on how slave owning citizens of the state attempted to maintain the status quo through legislative and social means. Fear of slave uprisings prior to the Civil War had cast a more conservative grip on the state's slave population which, before 1835, benefited from more liberal agendas like voting rights and better education for African Americans. The author examines through newspaper accounts, legal documents, and personal correspondence how the suppression of African Americans during the war deepened as the slave holding population became more fearful of losing control.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 25 Issue 2, April 1948,
p143-166, f
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