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Donald Parson was a well-known poet who was born and educated in the North but resided in Pinehurst. He helped found the Academy of American Poets and was an active member of his community in Pinehurst. Parson published two volumes of poetry, the first titled \"Glass Flowers,\" and a volume about John Keats, a favorite poet of Parson and the man he was often compared.
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19246
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Abernethy looks back over two hundred years and examines the types of currency in use in North Carolina.
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19247
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The State magazine prints two letters written from North Africa by Mary Elizabeth Partridge, who is serving there as physical education director for disabled soldiers. She relates an interesting account of her experiences and what she has seen since she left her home in Mt. Airy.
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19248
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Murphy describes Rowan County as a place rich in history, industrial development, and agricultural products. About 700,000 people live within a radius of sixty miles. It is a center of electrical development with Duke Power heavily involved. One of the best airports in the South is there. The schools are modern. Southern Railroad operates the largest railway shops and freight transfer shed in the South at Spencer.
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Anna Matilda McNeill was born in Wilmington in 1804 and spent her early life there. She later married George Washington Whistler, and they were the parents of James McNeill Whistler. Whistler later immortalized his mother with a world-famous painting, \"Whistler's Mother.\" Now Wilmington has plans to erect some kind of appropriate memorial in her honor.
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