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H. Lee Waters is one of North Carolina’s most famous photographers. The Carolina Theatre fire, construction of High Rock Lake Dam, and other large projects became his focus, as well as everyday moments such as segregated movie lines and boys milking cows. His most significant work came during the Depression while take video footage of life in small town North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee; these now reside at Duke University Libraries.
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Travis Myers has become the new head chef at Willow’s Bistro in Winston-Salem, a small restaurant that already has local popularity. While the menu has always centered on Southern favorites, Myers has brought in new ideas to freshen up the dishes, which has made the restaurant’s business double since he began.
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In 2005, Treehouse Vineyards settled in Monroe, North Carolina. Not only do they make award-winning wine, but they also offer a unique way to view the vineyard: from a treehouse. Since opening to the public in 2010, owners Phil and Dianne Nordan have created three different treehouses that can be rented for events and parties.
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Bob Timberlake is one of North Carolina’s most celebrated painters. He is known for his landscapes of rural life in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as few portraits. While he has made a career as a furniture designer, he had been painting for years, and continues to do so at age 80.
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Randolph Community College hosts one of the top photography programs on the East Coast, including a new state-of-the-art facility. The program is two years long, including summers, and offers students practice with black and white 35mm all the way through digital photography.
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Seven of the regular contributing photographers for Our State discuss what made them want to be photographers, their inspiration, and showcase some of their work in this photo essay.
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The Baker Barber Collection at the Henderson County Public Library holds over 75,00 photographs of everyday life in North Carolina, many of which are unlabeled. Twice a month, volunteers gather together to go through some of the photographs in order to identify any known people, places, or things in the photographs.
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From May 15, 2015 to February 19, 2017 at the Cape Fear Museum, an exhibition called “Reflections in Black and White” will be available to view. The photographs, all black and white photos, were taken in Wilmington in the 1940s and 50’s. While the subjects are doing similar things, like attending parties, playing, or working, they all showcase the significant amount of segregation at the time; not one photograph has a white and black subject in the same frame.
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Hugh Morton, the “state’s unofficial photographer” according to many, began photographing North Carolina landscapes and everyday life when he was a child. Throughout his lifetime, Morton took over 25,000 images, had a handful of them grace the front of “The State” magazine (precursor to "Our State"), and used his photography to bring awareness to causes such as protecting Grandfather Mountain and preserving the USS North Carolina.
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A pioneering female photographer, with a body of work including 600,000 photographs, also left behind the clapboard house where her career began. Among the accomplishments her historic house became the site of was designing the first Pepsi-Cola logo for the pharmacist who invented the beverage.
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Among the 1,100 cameras in Ken Toda’s Huemax are 1940s reporter cameras, 1920s’ portrait photographer cameras, and 1880s wet-plate cameras. Toda, who assists collectors and hobbyists worldwide, helps to upkeep High Point’s role in developing photography as a medium.
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