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3932
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Rowan LeCompte, who lives in Wilmington, creates stained glass art. One of his best-known works in the twenty-six-feet West Rose window in the Washington National Cathedral. He also created forty-five other windows there. He is a self-taught artist who has never been without work in his sixty-year career.
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3933
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Many coastal towns, including New Bern, Swansboro, Morehead City, and Beaufort, welcome in the Christmas season with a flotilla, boats lit with brightly colored lights.
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Bayard Wootten, who was born in New Bern in 1875, is one of the state's most noted photographers. Her career spanned fifty years, and her photographs of the Great Depression are among her best-known works.
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3935
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Founded in 1994 by Feather Phillips with a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Pocosin Arts is a combination of studios, workshops, and gift shop that seeks to showcase the creativity of Tyrrell County's artists and craftspersons.
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The goal of the new federal Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Program is seafood safety - to prevent such occurrences as salmonella poisoning and other hazards. It requires that before seafood can be sold, strict safety guidelines must be met by processors and seafood dealers.
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4021
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Steven G. Olson is the new outreach director for the North Carolina Sea Grant program as of November, 1998. He will supervise the Sea Grant's communication staff, educational programs, and extension grants. Other positions he has held include Director of the National Coastal Resources Research and Development Institute.
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4022
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Many people drive over the Intracoastal Waterway on their way to the beach and never give their water route a second thought. What they are ignoring is a dredged navigation channel of 3,000 miles where travelers find historic and cultural sites, explorable rivers, sounds, creeks, and man-made canals.
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Harkers Island is a place known for boatbuilding and boatbuilders. The Lewis, Guthrie, Willis, and Gillikin families are well-known in the trade. One of the most famous builders is Julian Guthrie, 84, who has numerous awards, including the first Living Treasure of North Carolina Award from UNC-Wilmington in 1988 and the N.C. Arts Council Folk Heritage Award in 1993.
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4024
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Boatbuilding is expanding, with over seventy-five builders in operation. They construct a variety of vessels, from small skiffs to luxury yachts. Among them are Grady-White Boats (Greenville) and Fountain Powerboats (Washington). Hatteras Yachts (New Bern), the state's largest manufacturer, employs over 850 and builds yachts valued at between $1 and $7 million.
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4025
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The bay scallop is found in only two Southeastern states -North Carolina and Florida-because it lives in seagrass beds. To protect its habitat, found mostly in Bogue and Core sounds, the state since the 1970s has closed these beds to mechanical harvesting. In 1997, 63,800 pounds were harvested, the largest harvest on the East Coast.
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4104
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A shipwreck found off Beaufort on November 21, 1996, tantalizes researchers with the possibility that it could be Blackbeard's flagship, the QUEEN ANNE'S REVENGE. Many of the more than 350 items brought to the surface are from Blackbeard's era, giving support for the theory, but definitive evidence has yet to be found.
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4105
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The state's fight against excessive nutrient pollution of waterways began in the 1970s when the Chowan River experienced fish kills, fish disease, and algal blooms that covered over twenty miles of the river. The General Assembly passed the first nutrient discharge laws, and citizens became involved. Today the river has recovered.
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4120
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Fishing for Bluefin tuna, which can weigh up to 600 pounds, is growing in popularity. One fish can sell for over $50,000, and in 1997, anglers spent over $3.6 million in Hatteras on such items as accommodations, food, and fishing supplies. Since 1996, anglers and researchers have participated in a Tag-a-Giant Bluefin Project. The tuna is caught, tagged with an archival tag, and released. The tag transmits data to a satellite about movement, diving activity, depth, light, and external temperatures.
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Plentiful game birds on Currituck Sound from the 1870s to the 1910s attracted many market hunters. These were hunters who were able to shoot without limit waterfowl which were then sold to markets and restaurants. Perhaps millions of birds were killed. Intervention by the federal government, with laws including the Weeks McLean Law (1913), brought unrestricted market hunting to an end in 1918.
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The Cape Fear River is a history-filled waterway, having seen early European explorers, including English, French, and Spanish ply its waters; bustling commerce, especially naval stores from 1720 to the Civil War; and warfare, including Spanish harassment during the 18th-century and the Union's blockade during the Civil War. Today it is a quiet stream, inviting travelers back through time.
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