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The author invites the reader to find the people who made a difference in North Carolina by reading building and school names, highway markers, and articles on North Carolina.
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The author tells of the Bennett College women who joined in the Woolworth Lunch counter sit-ins and continued to picket and march for equality. Dr. Esther Terry, who had taken part in the movement said “Bennett taught me that a meaningful education came with a responsibility, not only to recognize injustice, but to act against it.’
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The author gives the history of Dr. Pittman who did much for better medicine in North Carolina.
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The author gives a history of her grandfather, Rev. Grover Cleveland Hawley (1907-1990) who worked hard for equality in education for blacks in Creedmoor, Granville County, NC.
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36622
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The author tells the story of Manteo, the American Indian Chief, who met and helped the Englishmen in the Roanoke Voyages of 1584 and 1585. He would travel to England twice, returning to Roanoke Island in 1587 with John White and the group that would become known as the Lost Colony. She discusses the impact on the Indians by interaction with the Englishmen.
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36623
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Stories about military artifacts from the collection of Col. Westray Battle Boyce (1901-1972) of the Women’s Army Corps in WWII, found in the collection of the NC Museum of History. Featured are WWII medals like the Service Medal with Bronze Star, Legion of Honor, Women’s Army Corps, and War Department General Staff medal.
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36624
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Excerpts from ‘This Day in North Carolina History,” mentioning Ellen Black Winston, Ann Durant, James Davis, John Coltrane, William B. Gould, Jacob Henry, James Lytch, James W. Cannon, and the Edgecombe-Martin County Electric Membership.
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36625
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The author gives the lives of Horace Sowers Kephart and his photographer friend, George Mesa, who did much to preserve the natural beauty of the NC Mountains, which led to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The other Horace, is W. Horace Carter, a small town newspaper publisher in Tabor City, NC, who used his newspaper to push back against KKK violence.
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36626
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Through the HNNC (Healthy Native North Carolinians) Network, North Carolina Indian tribes are planting community gardens, constructing walking trails, renovating tribal grounds and hosting events to encourage healthy eating and physical activity.
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36627
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The author gives the life of Selma Burke (1900-1995) trailblazing Black female sculptor.
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36628
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The author gives a history of the Moses George family who came from Lebanon, Syria in 1916 who worked hard and eventually started a retail food distribution company now worth one billion dollars.
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36629
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The author gives the beginnings of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service since 1914 showing farm families the new farm and homemaking skills and how to preserve food. This led to Corn Clubs for boys and Tomato Clubs for girls, which in turn became 4-H.
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A group of high school students from Brevard, NC are doing science research through Cooperative Extension and 4-H in a program called ‘TIME for Real Science. The students were studying kudzu bugs, an invasive insect pest that attacks soybeans and trying to learn how to control them with scents.
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The author talks about the life of Dr. Mary Frances Shuford, of Asheville, NC, and her struggle to get medical facilities for African Americans in Asheville. The author also gives the lives of Catherine Aitken Owens and Julia Greenlee Ray who also helped in the struggle.
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The author gives the history of Dr. William Sharpe, a neurosurgeon from New York, who bought the Hammocks and Bear Island, near Swansboro, NC. To save it from development, he eventually turned it over to the NC Teachers Association in 1950 and it became Hammocks Beach State Park in 1961
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