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America's leading killer-disease in the early 20th-century was tuberculosis. When 65 cases were reported in Guilford County in 1915 and 125 people died from it in 1920, a movement developed to build a sanatorium. The Guilford County Sanatorium opened in 1924, and averaging 120 patients at a time, the sanatorium provided quality care until it closed in 1955. In 1958, the Guilford Technical Community College opened and used the buildings for another ten years when they were replaced with newer ones.
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Raleigh native Sharon Lawrence has starred on television in \"NYPD Blue\" and \"Ladies Man,\" performed on Broadway, and appeared in movies. In her spare time she scuba-dives, rock- climbs, races cars, and works for nonprofit groups, like the Alzheimer's Association. Lawrence discusses a variety of topics, including upcoming projects and her career, in an Our State interview.
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The Triad Stage, a new theater opening in Greensboro in January 2002, is the creation of Preston Lane and Richard Whittington. The regional theater will utilize talent from all over the nation, present the best in drama from at home and abroad, and also emphasize works about the region.
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Called by some the world's greatest dance festival, the American Dance Festival performs for seven straight weeks in June and July at Duke University. Here the world's leading modern dance companies come to introduce new works and showcase older modern works. Some festival performances have grown too large for Page Auditorium at Duke, and a new and larger venue is being sought.
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In 1976, J. Ward Purrington, founding chairman emeritus of the Carolina Ballet, started from scratch to organize the company. Robert Weiss was hired as artistic director in 1997. Now, three seasons later, under Weiss's leadership, the Raleigh- based dance company has a world-class reputation.
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Bob Donaghey has a wide background in broadcasting, including work with Ed Sullivan, CBS soap operas, and running his own talent agency. In 1994, he chose Caswell County as a place to live part of the year away from New York. He immediately fell in love with the wealth of bluegrass music and performers in the state. Now armed with state-of-the-art digital technology in his multi- purpose studio near Pelham, he works not only to record and preserve bluegrass music but to promote it beyond the state.
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Where do local country music singers and musicians go to build name recognition and a following? In North Carolina the answer is the country music showcase, which gives local talent a chance to perform on stage with a live band. Showcases have appeared over the last ten years in towns including Benson, Goldsboro, Liberty, and Smithfield. Some local performers, like Julie Hamilton, are profiled.
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Ralph Epperson is a rarity in the world of radio. He stills owns the station he founded, WPAQ, in 1948 in Mt. Airy, while nationwide a few companies own most of the stations. The station has a permanent format of bluegrass, gospel, and old-time mountain music, and its most popular show is the \"Merry-Go-Round,\" a weekly live music program. The show is the nation's third longest- running live music show. WPAQ is also one of the nation's top bluegrass stations.
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