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40658
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A Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership participant, Pamela Johnson learned, in another sense, how knowledge is power. From her visits, co-sponsored by North Carolina’s Electric Cooperative, she enlightened her math students about the production and delivery of electricity and career opportunities in the energy field.
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Kenan Fellows Program for Teacher Leadership; North Carolina Electric Cooperative; Education--academically gifted; Education--intellectually gifted; North Carolina State University--Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, and Science ; Mathematics--Study and teaching; Energy industry--North Carolina
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40659
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Though focusing on the isolating impact of a recent hurricane on Ocracoke, the state's experience with Hurricane Dorian taught the author any area might become solitary in the midst of floodwaters. It also prompted her to pose the question to all North Carolina communities, townships, and neighborhoods: do you have a survival plan in place, in the event of weather-generated isolation from local, regional, and state resources?
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Hurricanes; Hurricanes--community disaster preparedness; Hurricane Dorian, 2019; Hurricanes--Ocracoke Island; Hyde County--Ocracoke; Hyde County--Tideland Electric Membership Corporation; Hurricane Floyd, 1999; Mudslides--Western North Carolina; Disaster response training--hurricanes ; Hurricane Dorian--impact--Ocracoke
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40660
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Pork prepared by three generations of families in the crossroads community of Hopkins did more than feed them year-round. It fed a sense of community, along with knowledge about a tradition shared by many rural North Carolinians: hog killing.
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Unincorporated communities--North Carolina--Hopkins; Hog killing; Hog killing--traditions--North Carolina, Eastern ; North Carolina, Eastern--Social life and customs; North Carolina--foodways; North Carolina--Social life and customs; North Carolina--Social life and culture; Social customs and traditions--North Carolina--rural communities ; Family farms--North Carolina--Jackson Farms; Family farms--Zebulon--Jackson Farms; Hogs; Pork industry and trade