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40832
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Still spearheaded the creation of East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program. His Navy experience, plus positive character traits inspired by his late wife, helped yield the degree program that has gained much renown since its humble beginnings in the 1980s.
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40833
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What made the daunting task of restoring this former plantation house worthwhile: restoring also the only example in the county of transitional architecture between the Georgian and Federalist styles. What also made the task worthwhile was unexpected fruit of their labor: helping a local add a branch to her family tree, by the discovery of an ancestor born there.
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Greenville: Life in the East (NoCar F264 G8 G743), Vol. Issue , Winter 2019, p20, 22-24
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40834
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Factors like strong leadership and reputation for treating all like family has turned this former lumber mill to a business with four branches. These factors are described through a timeline of pivotal events and description of the two men who laid the foundation of the company’s multi-million dollar profit index and stellar reputation.
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Greenville: Life in the East (NoCar F264 G8 G743), Vol. Issue , Winter 2019, p20, 22-24
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40835
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One source of Michael Forster’s reputation is postcards, currently over 30,000, which does not includes ones he donated to a U.S. government project. The other is trains, which does not include the 1,000 plus repaired trains he has given away as Christmas gifts to local charities.
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40836
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This article is accompaniment to Morgan Banville’s “A Collection of Giving.” It focuses on Michael Forster’s collection of over 30,000 postcards, started by ones his father gave to him. It includes Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr.’s role in 2,000 postcards donated to a U.S. Government project about the Statue of Liberty.
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