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"At a high school in Lenoir County, a band director and his students carry on a musical legacy that stretches from eastern North Carolina's historic Sugar Hill district to the birth of funk." Kinston natives Dick Knight, Melvin Parker, Maceo Parker, Nathaniel Jones and Levi Rasbury were members of the James Brown Band. They were in the studio in Charlotte in 1965, when Brown recorded "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag", cited as one of the first funk songs.
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44865
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Jorge Flores, a senior at First Flight High School is a member of the school's Aviation Program, a select group of seniors and juniors, who have spent the last two and a half years constructing a plane in the lab of the Wright Brothers Memorial.. It's the first aircraft built on site since the Wright Flyer in 1903. U.S. Rear Admiral Joey Tynch is an aviation fundamentals and building techniques instructor for the course.
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44863
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"Across North Carolina, fungi wait underground until the perfect weather calls them up into the light." Western North Carolina is situated in an area known as the Southern Appalachian bioregion. Outside the tropics, this area is one of the best worldwide for growing mushrooms.
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44858
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"The Farm Life Schools that Began Sprouting up across the state more than a century ago have nurtured a reverence for learning and the land." Back in 1911, north Carolina passed legislation to support "farm life schools" for preparing children for farm life and homemaking. Discussed are schools that were established in Griffins Township (Martin County) and Vanceboro, N.C.
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