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Hertford, county seat of Perquimans County, is OUR STATE magazine's featured Tar Heel town of the month.
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Statesville photographer Max Tharpe is featured in this Tomlin profile. Tharpe is famous for his ability to capture images of everyday life. He began his career as a free lance photographer in 1947, shortly after leaving the Air Force. Now 89, he lives in Florida and has created his own line of greeting cards, called \"Honest Expressions.\" Tharpe recently donated his entire catalog of over 4,000 images to Mitchell Community College.
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Silcox-Jarrett describes the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, which is housed in an eighty-three-year-old school building. The stone-walled structure not only served students for almost seventy years, but was also the community's social center. Today it provides space for area artisans and features the art and fine crafts of more than 120 local and regional artists.
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Perkins recounts the life of Olga B. Bernardin Thorpe, known as \"Bo.\" Thorpe is the founder and executive director of the Cape Fear Regional Theater, a widely respected semi-professional theater in Fayetteville. In June 2009, she will close her forty-seventh season with the group.
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Public art is art not housed in a museum but found in the everyday environment, like paintings on buildings. The now-defunct Artworks for State Buildings Program was a state-supported program for public art. In 2001, Jeffrey York started Creating Places: A Community Public Art and Design Initiative. The program's objective is to pair community leaders and artists in an effort to develop projects for a specific community, such as the Fish Walk in Morehead City.
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Tate describes the work and creations of Black Mountain artist Jay Pfeil. She has been an artist for almost forty years and came to Black Mountain thirty years ago after working as a street artist in San Francisco. She is a nature artist who creates intaglio prints of plants she finds while hiking the North Carolina mountains.
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Britt's Donut Shop is a Carolina Beach landmark. H. L. Britt opened the shop in 1939, and Bobby Nivens, who worked at the business as a teenager, purchased the shop in 1974. He and his wife Maxine have operated the place ever since, turning out a single type of donut, the glazed kind.
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