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[gentle orchestral fanfare]

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♪

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[resonant strings
lead building orchestration]

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♪

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(male narrator)
Welcome to "Our State,"

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a production of UNC-TV

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in association
with "Our State" magazine--

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for over 70 years,

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bringing the wonders
of North Carolina

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to readers across the state.

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On this edition,

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Bland Simpson takes us

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down the Intracoastal Waterway,

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from Money Island

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to Sunset Beach...

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real cowboys

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in the real cowboy town

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of Love Valley...

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and the charming creations

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of the Doll Lady.

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♪

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[gentle piano melody]

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(male announcer)
From Manteo to Murphy

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and all the small towns
and big cities in-between,

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BB&T believes opportunity lives
everywhere in North Carolina.

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It's a belief we've held
for more than 130 years

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and guides us
as we support our communities

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from the mountains
to the coast.

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We love calling
North Carolina home,

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and we're proud to provide
major funding for "Our State."

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Quality public television
is made possible

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♪

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[birds call as waves slosh]

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[engine humming]

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rrrr

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[gentle melodica
leads guitar notes]

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♪

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(Simpson)
If you leave the drawbridge

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at Wrightsville Beach

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and head south
down the Intracoastal Waterway,

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you'll soon approach
a storied little strand

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of beach at the mouth
of Bradley Creek,

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a spot long known
as "Money Island."

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♪

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According to legend,
pirate Captain William Kidd--

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overburdened
with Spanish plunder

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from the Caribbean--

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buried two chests
of gold and silver plate

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right here
at Money Island.

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Captain Kidd
was soon arrested in New York

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and subsequently hanged
in London in 1701.

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And he never did get back
to Greenville Sound

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to lift his loot.

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♪

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Now that
was just a legend,

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but what about the mullet
men who found gold doubloons

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on the beach
here at Money Island...

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♪

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or Hezekiah,
the old oysterman

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who, according to
one Bradley Creeker,

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discovered a pirate chest

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"under an oyster rock
in Greenville Sound,"

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loaded it onto his mule
cart, and quit being a waterman

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for the rest of his days...

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♪

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and the Intracoastal Waterway
dredgers,

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who sliced into Money Island

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as they created
this channel 75 years ago--

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what turned up
in their dredge pipes?

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Pieces of eight.

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♪

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Stories of doubloons
in the sand

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and pieces of eight,
it turns out,

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are a whale
of a lot more valuable

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than the gold and silver
itself could ever be.

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And that's the real treasure
of Money Island.

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But since I'm here...

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[strings lead placid
piano and melodica tune]

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♪

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Across the Cape Fear
from Snow's Cut

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sits the ghostly
Brunswick Town.

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Here in the 1740s,
the Spanish plundered

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what was then a thriving
naval stores port.

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And in the 1760s,

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North Carolinians stood down
Governor William Tryon

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and the notorious Stamp Act
and shut down tax collection

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and shipping
on the Cape Fear.

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Before long, people moved on
upriver to Wilmington,

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and Governor Tryon had himself
a palace built up in New Bern.

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By the end
of the American Revolution,

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Brunswick Town really did
belong to the ghosts,

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who have held it ever since,
except during the Civil War

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when Confederate Fort Anderson
helped defend Wilmington.

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A group of visitors
to this quiet place

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was surprised
back in October 1961

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to see
the "Battleship North Carolina"

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making its way
up the Cape Fear

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for a permanent berth
at Eagles Island

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across the river
from downtown Wilmington.

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♪

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[birds calling]
eeet, eeet...eeet

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[horn tooting]
prfff, prfff

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[deep horn blowing]
hrrrnnnn

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Below Brunswick Town a ways,
sits Price's Creek Light,

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a small brick tower
only 20 feet tall

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built about 1848,

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now dwarfed by
the industrial works around it.

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One might find it
hauntingly hard to believe

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that Price's Creek Light here

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had been an important
communications link

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for the Confederacy--

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the link to signal Fort Fisher
across the lower Cape Fear.

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Fort Fisher
with its two-mile pounders

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kept the Union blockade
at bay,

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allowed the blockade runners
to operate

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and keep Wilmington open--
the last Southern port open

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after Vicksburg fell
in July 1863--

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and thereby sustain
the rebel nation

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for nearly two years more.

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And one might pause
to wonder that the fate

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of the long-gone Confederacy
once hung, in part,

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upon what Price's Creek's
iron lantern said,

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or didn't say.

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♪

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Longer lived
and a little better cared for

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is Old Baldy,

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the tawny
Bald Head Island Lighthouse--

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the oldest one still standing
on the Carolina coast,

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dating to 1817.

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♪

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When Cap'n Charlie Swan
came out of retirement

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to throw the first power on

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at Oak Island Light in 1958,

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across the Cape Fear River
from Old Baldy,

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what he lit
was for its time

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the brightest light
in all America!

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[vibraphone joins]

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At 2 1/2 million
candlepower,

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it is still one
of the brightest lights

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on the face of the earth.

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♪

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[bird calling]
eeet, eeet...eeet

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Across the channel
from Oak Island

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and Bald Head Island,

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just across the river
from Southport,

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lies Battery Island.

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[gentle piano tune]

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To this small spot
yearly fly 8,000 or 9,000 ibis.

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They arrive
around Eastertide

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in flights of 50
to 500 birds a mile high,

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the birds' wings
first flashing in the sun

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and then, as they come
dropping down to the island,

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the wind whistling
through their wings

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as they fall
out of the sky.

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♪

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A single cedar here
will sport 50 to 60 nests,

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the trees becoming
not merely laden

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but literally packed beak
by tail feather with birds.

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The white ibis have had
a booming success breeding

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in the lower Cape Fear,
and the numbers tell the tale.

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In May of 1983,

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there were 3,700
white ibis nests here.

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In the spring of 2004,

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the ibis built over
11,500 nests

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here on Battery Island.

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♪

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[mellow bass melody]

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Southport,
formerly Smithville,

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was the pilots' town
where for generations

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the men who guided ships
across the bar

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at the mouth
of the Cape Fear River

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had a nearly closed union.

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In the old days,

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if you weren't the son
or nephew of a Cape Fear pilot,

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you couldn't
become one yourself.

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You just couldn't crack
the select group

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they called
the "Combination."

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♪

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Even if you were a pilot,
you wouldn't have wanted

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to be up top
of the Pilots' Tower

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on October 15th, 1954.

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[mournful cello arrangement]

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That's when Hurricane Hazel
roared ashore here

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in Brunswick County
on a full-moon high tide

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with 150-mile-an-hour winds.

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Hurricane historian
Jay Barnes has written,

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"The surge wrecked
the many shrimp houses

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"that lined
the Southport riverfront

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"and carried
the remaining debris

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"far into the town's streets.

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"Hazel ranks as one of
the most catastrophic hurricanes

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to strike the United States
in the 20th century."

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[oboe joins]

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♪

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[crickets chirping]

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One morning, 30-odd years ago,
I heard a story

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about the old Smithville
burying ground

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from James Harper,
editor,

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and with his wife Margaret,
publisher,

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of Southport's
wonderful newspaper,

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"The State Port Pilot."

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Mister Harper leaned back
in his captain's chair and said,

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"When the earthquake
of 1898 hit Southport,

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"people came streaming
out of their houses,

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"into the streets.

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"And they all ran--
I mean ran--

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down to the old cemetery."

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[mellow bass
and guitar arrangement]

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♪

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He said, "They all
formed up in a big mob,

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"the ground shaking
every now and again.

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"People crying, praying.

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"All of them at the cemetery
because they thought it was

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"the Judgment Day and there was
gonna be the great Revelation.

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"The graves
were going to open up,

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"and their dead
relatives and friends

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"were gonna fly up
and, you know,

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be made whole!"

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♪

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Mister Harper told me,

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"You ought to walk
on by the old cemetery.

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"You'll see the same thing

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those old-timers
saw that night."

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♪

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[lilting melodica
and ukulele arrangement]

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♪

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A Brunswick County native
named "Mannon Gore"

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slapped this old
pontoon bridge

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across the Waterway
decades ago,

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connecting the mainland
to a causeway

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through the gorgeous
mile-wide marshes

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out to Sunset Beach.

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The bridge rises and falls
with the tide.

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So depending on where you are
in this endless cycling,

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you either drive up
across a peak,

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sink down into a trough,

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or just roar across flat.

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[machine noise]
hrrnnn

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A cable and winch works

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floats it open on the hour
for pleasure craft

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and as needed for fishing boats
and barge trains.

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Though the forces of speed

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have sought for years to scrap
this homely, old clunker

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and replace it
with a high-span flyover,

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other forces stood firm
and fought that major change

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to a standstill...
till now.

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A new bridge is coming soon,
and tens of thousands of people

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who grew up
with this one

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are really gonna miss it
when it's gone.

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[lilting melodica
and ukulele arrangement]

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♪

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These are just
a few waterway tales

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from southeastern
North Carolina.

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Thanks for joining us,

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and I hope we'll see you again
somewhere along the waterway.

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For now, from Mannon Gore's
old pontoon bridge

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at Sunset Beach,
farewell.

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♪

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[acoustic guitar
leads Western arrangement]

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♪

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[gears squeaking]
eee, eee...eee

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(Billy Barnes)
Some days you wake up

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and wonder, where am I?

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[whistler leads
Western arrangement]

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Dirt streets,

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hitchin' rails,

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boardwalks
instead of sidewalks...

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♪

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reminds me of ghost towns
I've seen in Nevada--

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more like
the Old West

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than the Old North State.

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But I'm told
I'm really

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just a few miles north
of Statesville.

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Morning.

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[Barnes voiceover]
Looks like a good place
to be a cowboy.

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[strings and brass
lead upbeat Western theme]

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♪

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[Western theme softens]

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Every self-respecting
cowboy town

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has a fellow
who just runs the place,

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sort of like
the local Wyatt Earp type.

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On a rainy day
not long ago,

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I finally met him,

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a tall, lanky fellow
named Andy.

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(man)
It's Andy Barker!

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(Barnes)
Everybody knows Andy Barker.

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Good to see you,
Glen.

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Hello,
there.

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(Barnes)
Back in 1954,

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he pulled out of his family's
thriving construction business

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in Charlotte,

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bought 369 acres
of wild country,

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and turned it
into a legendary land

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that he named
"Love Valley."

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(Barker)
I just always wanted
to play cowboy,

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and the first public statement
that I ever made

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was in the fourth grade,

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when you stand up
before the class and say,

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when I grow up,
I'm gonna do so-and-so.

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Well, my friends was gonna
be doctors and lawyers.

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I stand up and say,

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"I'm gonna build me
a Western town."

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The first building
I built was a church.

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I felt like
that then

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we could build
a community around it.

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[lively guitar strumming]

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(Barnes)
Then Andy built
his business district.

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[whistler joins]

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There are a couple
of saloons and a dance hall.

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If you're
wearing guns--

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and it's legal
to do that here--

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you have to check them

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as soon as soon
as you step inside.

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[gunshot]
bmm!

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Across the street,

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there's a store
full of saddles,

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bridles,
everything you or your horse

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could possibly need 
except hay and oats.

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The Moonshine gift shop

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has cowboy buyables
for the folks back home,

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and for
the travel-trailer deprived,

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there's Miss Kitty's
grand hotel.

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♪

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And so it was done.

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A childhood dream
became reality.

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Love Valley was born...

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a place
where a gentle breeze

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is followed
by a face full of dust

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and man's best friend
plays second fiddle

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to another
four-legged animal.

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[horse whinnying]
whe-hee-hee-heey

14:46.235 --> 14:49.067
(Barker)
All the horse people
like to congregate together.

14:49.167 --> 14:50.867
They come in
on the weekend,

14:50.967 --> 14:53.002
and they get in
and tell their tales

14:53.102 --> 14:55.468
and sit around,
and everything is about horses

14:55.568 --> 14:57.468
or something
they've done with horses

14:57.568 --> 14:59.668
or about the breed
of horse

14:59.768 --> 15:03.600
or they argue about
who's got the best horse.

15:03.700 --> 15:05.567
Yeah, it's horses.

15:05.667 --> 15:08.267
[organ leads]

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dng, dng...dng

15:10.568 --> 15:12.568
(Barnes)
And on Saturday mornings,

15:12.668 --> 15:15.434
customers and their steeds
are waiting in line

15:15.534 --> 15:19.035
to get a new set
of shoes.

15:19.135 --> 15:22.001
(Barker)
A lot of these
eastern-part-of-the-state boys

15:22.101 --> 15:23.768
never shoe their horses.

15:23.868 --> 15:26.468
And what happens
is that they come up here

15:26.568 --> 15:28.601
and they get
into rocky country

15:28.701 --> 15:31.167
and they gonna
need to shoe.

15:31.267 --> 15:33.101
[trombones lead slowly]

15:33.201 --> 15:35.201
clp, clp...clp

15:35.301 --> 15:37.267
(Barnes)
As for Andy Barker,

15:37.368 --> 15:39.534
the mayor
of Love Valley,

15:39.634 --> 15:42.767
he greets town folk
in his hardware store.

15:42.867 --> 15:44.668
(Barker)
Oh, that's my fun place.

15:44.768 --> 15:47.301
I'll be down there
tradin' till I'm dead.

15:47.401 --> 15:49.368
I'm runnin'
a special
on it today.

15:49.468 --> 15:51.034
Buy one,
get one
free?

15:51.134 --> 15:53.701
Oh, yeah,
if you pay enough
for the first one.

15:53.801 --> 15:55.368
(Barnes)
Prices at Andy's store

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are what you might call
"variable."

15:57.267 --> 15:59.568
(Barker)
Well, you wanna
borrow one or buy one?

15:59.668 --> 16:01.801
I just--well,
just got to level
one corner.

16:01.901 --> 16:03.668
Well, hell,
let's get mine
out there.

16:03.768 --> 16:06.334
(Barnes)
In rainy weather,
he gives 50% off on tarps.

16:06.434 --> 16:08.900
Thank you very much,
and hurry back to see me.

16:09.001 --> 16:10.434
(man)
Okay, I will.

16:10.534 --> 16:12.468
(Barnes)
He'll sell you a plastic leg.

16:12.568 --> 16:14.267
Everybody asks
about that leg.

16:14.368 --> 16:16.634
And I got it
for butt kickin'.

16:16.735 --> 16:19.368
I lease it out--
a dollar a day--

16:19.468 --> 16:22.001
and they use it
for butt kickin'.

16:22.101 --> 16:24.067
[deep guitar note]

16:24.167 --> 16:25.501
(Barnes)
On chilly days,

16:25.601 --> 16:28.034
folks come by
just to warm themselves

16:28.134 --> 16:29.934
by the pot-bellied stove

16:30.034 --> 16:33.034
and listen
to Andy's tall tales.

16:33.134 --> 16:35.001
[violins rise dramatically]

16:35.101 --> 16:36.568
Through the years,

16:36.668 --> 16:40.468
this quirky little town
has attracted some big names.

16:40.568 --> 16:43.868
A flamboyant Texan
named Lyndon B. Johnson

16:43.968 --> 16:46.601
once rode through town
on a stagecoach.

16:46.701 --> 16:48.534
North Carolina
Senators Sam Ervin

16:48.634 --> 16:50.767
and B. Everett Jordan
stopped by

16:50.867 --> 16:52.900
to chat
with Andy Barker.

16:54.167 --> 16:56.034
Early mornin'
in Love Valley

16:56.134 --> 16:58.134
might look
like a ghost town,

16:58.234 --> 17:01.567
but by high noon,
it's anything but that.

17:01.667 --> 17:03.401
There's a horse tethered

17:03.501 --> 17:06.234
to every foot
of the hitchin' rail.

17:06.334 --> 17:07.901
The boardwalks
are crowded,

17:08.002 --> 17:10.600
and still more riders
trot down the street

17:10.700 --> 17:12.900
to see and be seen.

17:13.001 --> 17:14.934
♪

17:15.034 --> 17:17.101
Why do people
bring their campers

17:17.201 --> 17:19.534
and their horses
and their families

17:19.634 --> 17:21.468
from all over
Tennessee,

17:21.568 --> 17:23.967
Virginia,
Georgia, Alabama,

17:24.067 --> 17:26.034
and certainly
from North Carolina

17:26.134 --> 17:28.835
to spend a weekend
at Love Valley?

17:28.935 --> 17:32.600
Well, they might have
a chili cook-off.

17:32.700 --> 17:33.900
Want some?

17:34.001 --> 17:36.500
(Barnes)
They might encounter a rodeo.

17:36.600 --> 17:39.334
♪

17:39.434 --> 17:42.067
And they might have

17:42.167 --> 17:45.867
a Halloween parade
on horseback--

17:45.967 --> 17:47.501
dressed-up horses,

17:47.601 --> 17:49.700
tiny goblins
on ponies,

17:49.800 --> 17:52.167
outrageous hairdos,

17:52.267 --> 17:53.967
fancy dresses,

17:54.067 --> 17:56.167
even a little
Indian or two.

17:56.267 --> 17:58.233
[violin leads
rich arrangement]

17:58.333 --> 18:00.234
♪

18:00.334 --> 18:01.668
[cymbals resound]

18:01.768 --> 18:04.234
You don't have
to spend much time here

18:04.334 --> 18:06.434
to figure out
there's not really

18:06.534 --> 18:08.835
another place
like Love Valley,

18:08.935 --> 18:11.134
and where did
the name "Love Valley"

18:11.234 --> 18:13.501
come from anyway?

18:13.601 --> 18:15.334
(Barker)
I do love people,

18:15.434 --> 18:17.900
and I was gonna call it
the "Valley of Love."

18:18.001 --> 18:19.568
Well,
it was too long,

18:19.668 --> 18:21.700
so then I changed it
to Love Valley.

18:21.800 --> 18:23.501
(Barnes)
And lots of folks

18:23.601 --> 18:25.800
are in love
with Love Valley.

18:25.900 --> 18:27.868
The way gamblers
love Vegas,

18:27.968 --> 18:30.834
the way hikers love
the Appalachian Trail,

18:30.934 --> 18:33.468
this little
Western town is heaven

18:33.568 --> 18:36.234
to thousands
of cowboys and cowgirls

18:36.334 --> 18:38.334
who just
keep comin' back

18:38.434 --> 18:40.667
to Love Valley's
happy trails.

18:40.767 --> 18:42.734
[echoing guitar strums]

18:48.468 --> 18:50.467
[lilting harp melody]

18:50.567 --> 18:54.934
♪

18:57.900 --> 18:59.434
(woman)
I'm afraid that

18:59.534 --> 19:02.334
with the long-standing,
traditional crafts

19:02.434 --> 19:05.034
that we're going to see
a decline in the motivation

19:05.134 --> 19:08.468
to pass those on
to the next generation.

19:08.568 --> 19:10.568
What happens
if the next generation says,

19:10.668 --> 19:12.767
"I don't think
I want to do that.

19:12.867 --> 19:15.001
I have other interests?"

19:15.101 --> 19:17.700
What happens to a craft?

19:17.800 --> 19:19.001
It's gone.

19:19.101 --> 19:20.501
♪

19:20.601 --> 19:22.735
(narrator)
It's the art of doll making,

19:22.835 --> 19:24.967
and its roots lie
in a cultural exchange

19:25.067 --> 19:27.034
that took place
between Native American

19:27.134 --> 19:29.500
and colonial children.

19:30.768 --> 19:32.434
(woman)
The Native American children

19:32.534 --> 19:36.501
taught the early settlers
how to make dolls.

19:36.601 --> 19:39.101
It's difficult
for children now to realize

19:39.201 --> 19:41.901
that during that time period,
there were no toys.

19:42.002 --> 19:44.835
The only thing they had
were things they made at home.

19:44.935 --> 19:47.067
(narrator)
As it's been done
for generations,

19:47.167 --> 19:49.934
Smithfield resident
Pam Earp fashions her dolls

19:50.034 --> 19:52.434
out of cornhusks.

19:52.534 --> 19:54.501
But today,
rather than having to wait

19:54.601 --> 19:56.534
for the corn to get ripe,

19:56.634 --> 19:58.834
she can shop
at nearby market.

19:58.934 --> 20:00.567
[mellow Latin beat leads]

20:00.667 --> 20:02.301
♪

20:02.401 --> 20:04.767
(Earp)
I go to a Hispanic
grocery store

20:04.867 --> 20:07.001
at a local
open-air market.

20:07.101 --> 20:09.434
I usually am able
to pick out the ones

20:09.534 --> 20:11.368
that would work best
for dolls.

20:11.468 --> 20:14.201
They have to have
a special texture to them.

20:14.301 --> 20:16.334
Then you almost
have to sniff 'em, too,

20:16.434 --> 20:19.234
because they've
got to smell right.

20:19.334 --> 20:20.900
[lilting harp notes]

20:21.001 --> 20:22.468
♪

20:22.568 --> 20:24.934
(narrator)
Pam found her interest
in doll making

20:25.034 --> 20:27.001
while on her honeymoon
in 1978

20:27.101 --> 20:29.767
when she stopped
at a craft show in Boone.

20:29.867 --> 20:32.634
♪

20:32.735 --> 20:35.867
(Earp)
I watched a man make a doll,
and I was fascinated.

20:35.967 --> 20:37.668
I really enjoyed
watching him

20:37.768 --> 20:40.300
and working
with a natural material.

20:40.400 --> 20:43.633
♪

20:43.734 --> 20:45.534
And I made a doll,

20:45.634 --> 20:47.467
and it was
very traditional, very simple,

20:47.567 --> 20:48.867
and very ugly.

20:48.967 --> 20:50.368
It wasn't my style.

20:50.468 --> 20:53.134
I wanted to find my own way
of making them

20:53.234 --> 20:55.900
and put my own creativity
in it.

20:57.634 --> 20:59.267
(narrator)
Nearly 30 years later,

20:59.368 --> 21:01.867
Pam sits around the table
with her mother, daughter,

21:01.967 --> 21:04.234
and an apprentice
still creating--

21:04.334 --> 21:07.501
still upholding
this unique tradition.

21:07.601 --> 21:09.134
(Earp)
Most traditions pass

21:09.234 --> 21:10.701
from grandmother on down

21:10.801 --> 21:12.701
a normal
family-tradition path,

21:12.801 --> 21:14.601
but ours
is a little different.

21:14.701 --> 21:16.267
My daughter actually
learned from me,

21:16.368 --> 21:18.967
and now my mother has started
making things as well.

21:19.067 --> 21:20.967
So we have
three generations involved,

21:21.067 --> 21:22.867
but it's not
the normal passing down

21:22.967 --> 21:24.267
from generation
to generation.

21:24.368 --> 21:26.134
We just sort of
started one place

21:26.234 --> 21:27.934
and branched out
in all directions.

21:28.034 --> 21:29.334
You got it?

21:29.434 --> 21:31.735
What color
sleeve you want? Natural or red?

21:31.835 --> 21:34.600
[voiceover]
We have our own areas
we like to work with.

21:34.700 --> 21:36.267
I really like to work

21:36.368 --> 21:38.534
with the fancy,
very elaborate dolls,

21:38.634 --> 21:40.868
and my daughter works
with the smaller pieces--

21:40.968 --> 21:43.368
the angels and very intricate
pieces there.

21:43.468 --> 21:46.468
And my mom does
a great job with flowers

21:46.568 --> 21:49.034
and the very
traditional dolls.

21:49.134 --> 21:50.568
♪

21:50.668 --> 21:52.434
(narrator)
Pam dyes the cleaned husks

21:52.534 --> 21:54.267
with about
ten different colors.

21:54.368 --> 21:57.568
As you look at the fine detail
that goes into her craft,

21:57.668 --> 22:00.600
you might notice that none
of her dolls have faces.

22:00.700 --> 22:02.668
♪

22:02.768 --> 22:04.633
(Earp)
It's a Native American
tradition.

22:04.734 --> 22:06.501
There are a lot of stories,

22:06.601 --> 22:08.534
but the most
common version is that

22:08.634 --> 22:10.468
if you put a face
on something,

22:10.568 --> 22:12.134
an evil spirit
could possess it,

22:12.234 --> 22:13.968
so they left the faces off.

22:14.068 --> 22:16.734
There are lots of different
versions of the story.

22:16.834 --> 22:18.334
I like the look

22:18.434 --> 22:20.800
because, then,
you can make the doll

22:20.900 --> 22:22.900
anyone you want it to be.

22:23.001 --> 22:25.334
♪

22:25.434 --> 22:27.201
I don't do commission work

22:27.301 --> 22:29.801
because, then,
it would be more like a job.

22:29.901 --> 22:33.034
I don't want it to be
something I have to do.

22:33.134 --> 22:35.800
I want it to be something
that I enjoy doing.

22:35.900 --> 22:37.434
Oh, I'm having fun.

22:37.534 --> 22:39.567
[voiceover]
It's very relaxing for me.

22:39.667 --> 22:44.501
♪

22:44.601 --> 22:47.034
Well, I like to have
the dolls doing things

22:47.134 --> 22:48.867
or let them depict things

22:48.967 --> 22:51.633
that a woman would do
in real life.

22:51.734 --> 22:53.135
I like baskets.

22:53.235 --> 22:56.867
I like little fancy parasols
and flowers and handbags.

22:56.967 --> 22:59.401
And you really
have to look at the doll

22:59.501 --> 23:02.900
once she's finished and decide
what fits her personality.

23:03.001 --> 23:04.701
Every doll looks
a little different.

23:04.801 --> 23:06.834
You can even
put an age on them,

23:06.934 --> 23:08.968
or I can
when I look at them.

23:09.068 --> 23:11.368
They look like they fit
certain roles in life,

23:11.468 --> 23:13.234
and that's generally
how I determine

23:13.334 --> 23:15.333
what I put
in their hands.

23:15.433 --> 23:20.601
♪

23:20.701 --> 23:22.401
(narrator)
Whereas dolls in the old days

23:22.501 --> 23:24.201
were used as toys
for children,

23:24.301 --> 23:26.934
they're now
primarily for display.

23:27.034 --> 23:29.067
And each year
at the State Fair,

23:29.167 --> 23:31.767
collectors can find
Pam's dolls for sale

23:31.867 --> 23:34.067
at the Village
of Yesteryear...

23:34.167 --> 23:36.067
♪

23:36.167 --> 23:40.534
but a lot of preparation
is needed for this event.

23:40.634 --> 23:44.067
(Earp)
Twenty-three made,
and I need a hundred.

23:44.167 --> 23:45.967
I'm thinkin'
I have three made,

23:46.067 --> 23:48.234
and I need about 200.

23:48.334 --> 23:49.934
I really enjoy
doing these.

23:50.034 --> 23:51.835
They're fairly quick
to do.

23:51.935 --> 23:55.835
I can sit at home
watching TV doing 'em.

23:55.935 --> 23:57.967
(Earp)
I think I prefer
the larger ones

23:58.067 --> 24:00.101
'cause you can be
more creative with those.

24:00.201 --> 24:02.767
I like the
smaller ones.

24:02.867 --> 24:04.633
Should they have
any wrinkles?

24:04.734 --> 24:06.368
No wrinkles
for the sleeves.

24:06.468 --> 24:08.334
They don't bend
very--very well.

24:08.434 --> 24:10.501
(Earp's mother)
If it's too flimsy and all,

24:10.601 --> 24:12.668
it's not going
to work out as well,

24:12.768 --> 24:15.668
so I try to get some
that's thicker.

24:15.768 --> 24:17.401
(Earp)
We do have collectors.

24:17.501 --> 24:20.134
I'm very fortunate to have
a large group of collectors

24:20.234 --> 24:22.001
that come and visit me
every year.

24:22.101 --> 24:23.834
I enjoy visiting
with the people.

24:23.934 --> 24:25.667
They bring pictures
of their dolls

24:25.767 --> 24:27.201
and their doll collections,

24:27.301 --> 24:29.067
and it's interesting
to listen to them

24:29.167 --> 24:31.334
because you don't
see them very often.

24:31.434 --> 24:33.234
There are very few
of us left--

24:33.334 --> 24:35.434
very few doll makers left
in North Carolina.

24:35.534 --> 24:37.534
That's why I think
it's so important

24:37.634 --> 24:39.768
that we teach this
to other people

24:39.868 --> 24:43.233
so that we can pass
that tradition on.

24:43.333 --> 24:46.634
♪

24:46.735 --> 24:49.568
Each doll is very unique,
and I want to make sure

24:49.668 --> 24:52.468
that when I do a doll,
that it is something

24:52.568 --> 24:55.967
that people are going to
cherish for many generations.

24:56.067 --> 25:04.266
♪

25:08.234 --> 25:10.133
[gentle piano introduction]

25:10.233 --> 25:12.201
♪

25:12.301 --> 25:14.200
[resonant strings join]

25:14.300 --> 25:22.201
♪

25:22.301 --> 25:24.134
(man)
Ansel Adams said that

25:24.234 --> 25:26.234
the negative
is like the score,

25:26.334 --> 25:28.567
and the print
is the performance.

25:28.667 --> 25:32.868
♪

25:32.968 --> 25:34.935
You can interpret
the image, you know,

25:35.035 --> 25:39.067
a lot of different ways,
and they can all be right.

25:39.167 --> 25:48.900
♪

25:49.001 --> 25:50.767
As far as what's
in the image,

25:50.867 --> 25:52.634
the thing
that I am drawn to,

25:52.735 --> 25:56.167
number one,
is that it tells a story.

25:56.267 --> 25:58.101
And even
if it's a still life,

25:58.201 --> 26:01.700
there's a sensation
that somebody was just there.

26:01.800 --> 26:05.701
♪

26:05.801 --> 26:07.668
I did a collection
of photographs

26:07.768 --> 26:10.800
of North Carolina
Indian women.

26:10.900 --> 26:13.034
You know,
what I try to avoid

26:13.134 --> 26:18.768
is sort of the stoic,
classic Indian portraits

26:18.868 --> 26:24.034
and to have it be
about my friends.

26:24.134 --> 26:25.934
Right in the lens.

26:26.034 --> 26:27.201
tckk

26:27.301 --> 26:28.468
Good.

26:28.568 --> 26:30.867
[Native American
singing and drumming]

26:32.134 --> 26:34.001
Yeah, that's
very cool.

26:34.101 --> 26:39.133
♪

26:40.401 --> 26:42.400
[rushing wind]

26:44.301 --> 26:46.800
[energetic string quartet
playing "Our State" theme]

26:46.900 --> 26:58.001
♪

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♪

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♪

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♪

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[full orchestration]

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♪

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