Buck Dancing
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View ArticleBox Suppers
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View ArticleBlue Laws
Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5No votes yet Blue Lawsby Wiley J. Williams, 2006"Blue laws" refer to statutes designed to enforce morality as some lawmakers...
View ArticleBeer and Breweries
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View ArticleBeauty Shops
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View ArticleBathing
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View ArticleBarbers
Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5Average: 5(1 vote) Barbersby William S. Powell, 2006By the time North Carolina was colonized, the French custom of having barbers do...
View ArticleBallad of Tom Dooley
Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5No votes yet"Ballad of Tom Dooley."by Thornton W. Mitchell, 2006Thomas C. Dula was born in Wilkes County on 20 June 1844, the son of...
View ArticleAzalea Festival
Select ratingGive it 1/5Give it 2/5Give it 3/5Give it 4/5Give it 5/5No votes yet Azalea Festivalby Craig M. Stinson, 2006The North Carolina Azalea Festival is held every April in Wilmington as a...
View ArticleArchaeology Part 4: Underwater Archaeology
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View ArticleArchaeology Part 2: Discoveries of the North Carolina Piedmont
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View ArticleArchaeology Part 1: Archaeological Research in the Coastal Plain
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View ArticleApprenticeship
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View ArticleAfrican and African American Storytelling (from Tar Heel Junior Historian)
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