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Guy Owens is the author of The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man, a quirky novel based in North Carolina in the genre of Huck Finn. Owen's book is being produced into a movie by 20th Century Fox and in 1966 production began in Kentucky. The book wasn't printed until 1965, but it has captured attention in New York City and now the movie will tell the tale.
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Robert Lester Blackwell is the only North Carolinian to have won the Congressional Medal of Honor in World War I. Private Blackwell died while carrying a message through enemy lines in France. After the posthumous award was granted, a statue was erected outside the Roxboro courthouse to honor him for his service to the country. Mr. Blackwell lived in Hurdle Mills, in Pearson County, and worked the family farm till his death in 1918.
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