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The Asheville Federal Building, once known as the Grove Arcade Building, is home to the Environmental Data Service, a division of the Environmental Science Services Administration, or ESSA, which is itself a division of the United States Department of Commerce. The Environmental Data Service, or EDS, provides answers to environmental questions submitted by individuals or groups. The EDS also issues publications dealing with climatology in an effort to reduce their work load by anticipating some of the questions that may be asked throughout the year. A staff of approximately 600 people uses several computers, data punch cards, microfilm and magnetic tape, and millions of sheets of typed, printed, and handwritten information to answer submitted questions. The sheets of handwritten information alone are filed on ten miles of shelving.
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Conscious of the need for improved railroad facilities, North Carolina's railroad leaders introduced sleeping cars and diners, or saloon cars, for the first time within months of the end of the Civil War. By the middle of 1866, sleeping cars were being operated regularly on both the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad and the North Carolina Railroad. The Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, noticing a decline in passengers, attributed the drop to a lack of sleeping cars and added them as well in 1869.
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10681
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Hundreds of thousands of people have seen Bill McElreath, the dancing phenomenon of Swannanoa, do the buck dance. McElreath is a regular at the Asheville City-County Plaza's Saturday night Shindig-on-the-Green as a performer and instructor. Additionally, he has been a featured attraction at the annual Folk Festival at Asheville's City Auditorium. He has also won buck and clog dancing championships at five state fairs and danced at the Smithsonian Institution's folk program. He also plays the guitar and as a musician has recorded for Victor Records.
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On June 28, 1969, Spivey's Corner held its First Annual National Hollerin' Contest. The idea initially came from an on-air discussion between Spivey's Corner resident Ermon Godwin Jr. and two Dunn radio men regarding the origins and purpose of hollerin'. A suggestion was made that a contest be held and Godwin contacted friends in media from all over the country who ran stories of interest on local news programs. Major networks and news outlets, including CBS, NBC, and Time Magazine, picked up the story, sending reporters and camera crews to Spivey's Corner to cover the event. Dewey Jackson, of Roseboro, was declared the winner of the first contest, resulting in a deluge of television, radio, and print interview offers, including an opportunity to appear on the national television show \"To Tell the Truth.\"
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