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In the heart of the western North Carolina mountains, the Penland School of Handicrafts, a widely-known art center for craft lovers is run by the Penland Weavers and Potters. The school has as its mission the teaching of native arts and handicrafts. Spinning and weaving by hand, pottery of pewter, copper, silver, and clay, chair making, and basketry are just a few of the many crafts that students learn to design and make from raw materials.
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Twenty-two years experience in professional baseball and ten years of collegiate coaching is the record that stands behind Bunn Hearn, who is beginning his eleventh season as head coach of the University of North Carolina baseball team. A native of Chapel Hill, Hearn played football and baseball for Mississippi A & M. He later played baseball for St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Boston Braves, before returning to the south as manager for Kinston and several other coastal plains teams.
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Small was born in Washington in Beaufort County in 1858. He became a member of the Bar in 1881, and later held positions as superintendent of schools in Beaufort and Wayne counties. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the First District in 1899 and served for twenty years. He was the foremost authority there on waterways, and he eventually became chairman of the Rivers and Harbors Committee. His greatest achievement was the creation of the Atlantic Intercostal Waterway.
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