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The landscape of the South is as welcoming as its inhabitants. Here, you won't find the imposing crags of the West or the flatness of the Plains. The Appalachians have been worn into gentle, rolling hills with verdant valleys in between.



SOME FAMOUS NORTH CAROLINIANS
...besides all my own kinfolk of course!

Astronauts Mike Smith and Bill Thornton
Sequoyah (Cherokee)
Roberta Flack
Howard Cosell
Ava Gardner
Andy Griffith
James Taylor
O. Henry
Thomas Wolfe
Billy Graham
"Catfish" Hunter
Michael Jordan
Meadowlark Lemon
Sugar Ray Leonard
Roman Gabriel
Dale Earnhardt
Lee, Richard, and Kyle Petty

plus 4 Pulitzer Prize Winners and 3 U.S. Presidents!

A FEW OF THE MANY MOVIES SHOT IN NC...
Lolita
Dirty Dancing
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Patch Adams
Being There
Blue Velvet
Bull Durham
The Crow
The Green Mile
Thunder Road
Kiss the Girls
Noble House
Song Catcher
Sleeping with the Enemy

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CEO:
Marsha Raymond
Members:
Seth Koehler
Meredith Koehler
Marshall Patterson
Geri Patterson
John Raymond

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KUDZU CUISINE!

SHOPPING FOR G.R.I.T.S. (GIRLS RAISED IN THE SOUTH

SUFFOLK VA PEANUT FESTIVAL!

SOUTHERN FESTIVALS

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LOCAL SAYINGS:

Fine as a frog's hair. Used in response to, "How are you?"

God willin' 'n' th'creek don't rise. Used in response to, "Will you be there Thursday?"

Busier'n' a one-armed paper hanger. Used in response to, "Ain't seen you in awhile. How you been?"


PLUM - extremely

CRINE - weeping

BAIL (noun). A metallic instrument.
Usage: "Y'all come eat when you hear the dinner bail ring!"

CUR-SEE (Noun). Generosity or kindness.
Usage: "Bubba, you show yer sister some cur-see!"

DEPTEE (Noun). A proxy or representative.
Usage: "I shot the shurf, but I didn't shoot no deptee.'"FARN (adj). Not local.
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a word he sed ... must be from some farn country."

GUZINTA (verb). Mathematical term for division.
Usage: "Fav guzinta fifteen three times. Two guzinta eight foe times."

HIRE YEW (phrase). A question.
Usage: "Heidi! Hire yew?"

TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel
Usage "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my pickup truck."

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

HEIDI - noun. Greeting

IMPA TICKLER (adv). Specifically.
Usage: "Whatcha doin tonite?" "Nuttin impa tickler."


Pickin' up the Red Dog pig food in Oxford - circa 1939

RECKON - to suppose, to think

ROSTENEERS - corn on the cob


 
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