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"Asheville's first farm-to-table restaurant helped start a movement more than 40 years ago. Now its chef continues the tradition by drawing on his childhood spent foraging and farming with his grandparents." Chef William Dissen is owner of the Market Place Restaurant and Lounge.
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"In Asheboro, the rolling piedmont starts to look like a slice of Africa as a new state supported zoo aims to teach the value of conservation- and give its animals space to be themselves." The North Carolina Zoo was dedicated in August 1974. Today it is the world's largest by area with 500 developed acres populated by 1,800 animals.
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"A spectacle of sculptural art colors the sky above a public park in the heart of a town once known for its bustling tobacco trade. In North Carolina's Coastal Plain, city skylines don't require tall buildings- just revolving pieces of scrap metal and an otherworldly imagination." Vollis simpson died in 2013. The city of Wilson created a park to show off 30 of his whirligig creations in 2017.
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" A brick sculpture stretches across a downtown block in the rustling hills of Surry County, paying homage to a few of the everyday people who built America's favorite small town. Mount Airy's Lizzie Morrison and sculptor Brad Spencer and co-creators of the Whittling Wall, which looks beyond TV nostalgia to reveal a more authentic view of Mount Airy.
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