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Located in Carteret County, Beaufort, the third-oldest city in North Carolina, is featured in Our State magazine's Tar Heel Town of the Month section.
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In 1933, Roger \"The Terrible\" Touhy was awaiting trial in Chicago when four of his associates went down South to raise money for his defense. The gang robbed a mail truck in Charlotte. What they didn't know was that Frank Littlejohn, the man J. Edgar Hoover called the \"finest detective in America,\" was chief of detectives. Summerville describes how Littlejohn and his men solved the crime and brought the four robbers to justice.
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February 1, 1960 was one of those days that altered not only the history of North Carolina but the nation as well. It was the day that four young African American college students took their seats at the FW Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro - a segregated area. Graff recalls the event and the four young men. The lunch counter is now the centerpiece exhibit in the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 9, Feb 2011,
p92-96, 98, 100-102, 104, il, por
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Rowe describes the work of Peter Blum III, a third generation tinsmith, who can turn a piece of tin into a work of art or a tool. At age 76, he is believed to be the state's only tinsmith, and his talent earned him the Order of the Long Leaf Pine.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 9, Feb 2011,
p120-122, 124, 126-128, 130, il, por
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38288
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Countering North Carolina’s illiteracy rate, the highest in the nation by the 19th century, was the creation of libraries. Libraries, which also made it possible by the 1940s for almost all North Carolinians to access free material, included Wilson, Morganton, Weldon Memorial, and Halifax County.
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Lanier, Sidney, 1842-1881; Lanier Library (Tryon); Membership libraries--Lanier Library--Tryon; Illiteracy rates--United States--nineteenth century; Illiteracy rates--North Carolina--nineteenth century ; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill--Wilson Library ; Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill--North Carolina Collection; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill--Rare Book Collection; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill--Southern Historical Collection; Morganton Public Library; Public libraries--Burke County Library System--Morganton Public Library ; Norris Public Library (Rutherfordton); Wilson County Library (Wilson); Weldon Memorial Library ; Historic buildings--train depots--Weldon; Halifax County Library System--Halifax County Library
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Matthew Lewis Jr.’s greatness can be measured in more than a Pulitzer Prize or friendship with noted black photographer Gordon Parks. It can be measured in accessing 1960s historical highlights, such as Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, handling with aplomb sensitive scenes, such as President John F. Kennedy’s funeral, and including in his portfolio pictures of other famous people, such as Queen Elizabeth.
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Concord’s First Presbyterian Church has a garden contained items not normally associated with such as place: tombstones. Because of this, Memorial Garden had more to offer to visitors than fragrant flora. It offered insights into the town’s history and stories of the town’s honored dead, with tombstone dates spanning between 1804-1999.
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