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♪

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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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of North Carolina

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to readers across the state.

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On this edition,
what some have called

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the strangest house
in the world,

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Rick Sullivan shows us
some sights and sounds

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on fall Friday nights...

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Fight, fight, fight!

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(narrator)
and what it takes
to make North Carolina home

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to plants and animals
from all over the world.

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gentle arrangement]

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♪

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(narrator)
Back in 1878, the young
advertising illustrator

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and entrepreneur
named Jule Körner

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decided to build a house.

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His star was on the rise,

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and he decided
to use his new home

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to showcase his prospering
decorating business.

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Here's what he came up with.

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♪

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People in the newly named
town of Kernersville

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had their doubts
about whether Jule

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had both feet planted
firmly on the ground,

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as they watched
his creation rise

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on the community's
main street.

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Eventually,
Körner's magnificent obsession

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would evolve into 23 rooms,
according to Connie Russell,

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who helps us find our way
through the place,

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which she says was built
on quite a solid foundation.

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(Russell)
Jule had a fear of fire,
so when it was being built,

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you had brick studding
going up in the house.

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Everything was brick,

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and so everybody
thought it was quite odd.

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(narrator)
And people talked,

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often speaking disparagingly of
Jule's design behind his back,

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saying things like:

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(Russell)
Twenty years from now,

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this house is gonna to be known
as Jule Körner's folly.

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(narrator)
The whisperings
were not lost on Jule,

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so when he opened up the house
on Easter Monday, 1880,

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townsfolk were surprised
by the invitations.

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[Russell reading]
"You're invited

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to the grand-opening
gala at Körner's Folly."

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And that's how it got its name,

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and when he had
the front porch put in,

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then he has "Körner's Folly"
put in the tiles

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across the front porch,
so it's always been the Folly.

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♪

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(narrator)
No one room in the house
is quite like another.

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♪

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Some are elegant and spacious...

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while other rooms
you can barely stand in.

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(Russell)
A lot of your ceilings are low.

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The doorways are small;
the hallways are small.

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But people
were smaller back then.

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Your standard
height of a man

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at the turn of the century
was between 5'7" and 5'8".

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(narrator)
Details often differ
within the same room.

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♪

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But taken together,

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these differences comprised
a catalog of design features,

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some of them quite ingenious,

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that Jule used to showcase
his décor inventory,

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which he presented to the public

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as Rubin Rink Decorating
and House-Furnishing Company.

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(Russell)
There was no stopping it,
from that moment on.

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Every time a new decorative
motif came into being,

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he would find someplace
in his house to put it.

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The house was constantly

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under some type
of construction--always.

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♪

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(narrator)
The Folly's rooms are connected

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by a dizzying maze
of corridors,

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ventilation shafts,
and fireplaces,

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with their intricate
network of flues.

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(Russell)
He was way ahead of his time

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both in his engineering ability

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and in his
architectural ability--

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his ventilation system
going through the house--

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the fact that he put tunnels
underneath the house

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to enable the cool air
to rise through the same system

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that pulled the heat through
from the fireplaces.

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We have 15 fireplaces
in this house,

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and every fireplace in
Körner's Folly draws perfectly.

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He was an engineering genius.

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(narrator)
Even the most inventive and
determined of small children

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would find it challenging
to navigate their way

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through the Folly's
trapdoors and passages.

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(man)
And also,
there used to be a tunnel

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that led across the road
to the carriage house.

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(narrator)
Like Bill Donnell,

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a Körner descendant,
and his playmates used to do.

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(Donnell)
My fond memories

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are wandering
around the house just--

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it was a treasure trove
of places to hide.

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And it was an adventure
just to find out,

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you know,
where things led to,

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and every room sparks
the imagination.

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♪

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(narrator)
But there was one room
in the Folly

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that came to spark the
imagination of a certain lady.

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Not long after the house
was built,

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Jule decided to marry,

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and Alice Körner immediately
seized on a few things

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about the place
that simply had to go--

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the billiards room
on the top floor, for sure,

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which became
Jule's art studio for a while.

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♪

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But she especially
had her eye on the carriageway.

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Coming down
the narrow back passageway

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leads you
into the library area,

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which was formerly the stables
and the horse stalls.

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♪

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(narrator)
Yep, there were horses

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in her house--
heh, heh.

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Here's how it worked:

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The Folly's foyer
was the original carriageway,

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with an entrance
just off the street

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into which horse
and carriage could be driven

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and passengers disembarked.

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The carriage
was then driven out the back,

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through the archway,

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where this breakfast room
is today,

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or the horses could be stabled
right there in the house,

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to the right,
as they came in.

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(Russell)
The horses would be brought in
straight from the carriageway,

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and you can still see
the remnants of the windows

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where the horses would be able
to stick their heads.

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Originally,
the floor was cement,

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and it was all level,
but it became the library

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when they closed in
the stable and horse area.

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♪

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(narrator)
The Folly was supposedly
finished in 1880,

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but Jule kept changing
the place as whim, business,

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or family needs required

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until his death in 1924...

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♪

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like this,

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what eventually
became the reception room.

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(Russell)
Originally, it was Jule's studio
and the master bedroom.

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The children were born
in this room.

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It became
the entertaining room.

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This is where the guests
would come to have conversation.

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And as you can see,

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it is quite
beautifully decorated

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with the ornate mantelpieces

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and the massive carvings
around the room.

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♪

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(narrator)
The reception room

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retains its elegant
character today

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and many of its
original furnishings,

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including specially
designed loveseats

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for strictly supervised
boy-girl socializing...

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♪

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and something
called "kissing corners."

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There are signs
in this room, however,

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that time has not been
kind to the Folly,

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particularly
during its years of abandonment

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following World War II.

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♪

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By the 1950s,

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the house had deteriorated
to the point

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that the town considered
knocking it down.

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That's when a group
of 26 dedicated local citizens

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stepped in to save it.

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Today, the Folly is watched
after by a nonprofit foundation,

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and there are special occasions
when it deservedly becomes

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the center of attention
in Kernersville.

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[excited talking]

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(woman)
I want to congratulate
all of you for your involvement

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with this extremely
worthwhile endeavor

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of keeping this house going

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and making it a positive symbol
for the town of Kernersville.

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clp, clp...clp

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[footsteps]
tp, tp...tp

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(narrator)
But now, let's go upstairs.

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♪

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Remember the former
billiards room?

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Here it is,

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as transformed in 1897
into a small theater.

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♪

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(man)
We are in the little theater--

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Cupid's Park,
as it was well known.

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When I was a boy--

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this was, uh,
in the mid 1950s--

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uh, Grandmother Donnell,
as I called her, Doré,

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would bring us up
to the Folly.

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And we would, of course,
play here for--

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literally for hours at a time.

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It was very interesting
to think about my grandmother

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and great uncle
playing in the theater

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and actually
putting on performances.

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(narrator)
Doré, John's grandmother,

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was Jule
and Alice Körner's daughter.

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His Great Uncle Gilmer
was their son.

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Alice organized
a juvenile lyceum,

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held in Cupid's Park,

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and later, the magnificent
space atop the Folly

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became the site of the first
little theater group

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in the United States.

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Today,
the Folly's theater comes alive

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with puppet shows
and other events.

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[man speaking dramatically]
My name is Jule Körner.

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Now what
do you think?

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I'm daring.

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I'm creative.

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I'm Rubin.

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I'm Jule.

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But if each room
is an adventure,

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you can live
your dream.

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clp, clp...clp

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(narrator)
Live their dreams
the Körners did

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right here
in what has been called

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the strangest house
in the world.

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(Wolf)
I think Grandmother
and Granddaddy Körner

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would be amazed
at the fact that the house

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has actually stood
this number of years

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and, uh, and that people
are interested in it.

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And looking
at the future of the Folly,

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they would be amazed
to see that actually

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that a foundation
was looking after the home.

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(boy)
Whoa.

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(woman)
I know.

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This is
so cool!

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(narrator)
But there's one more secret
that needs telling,

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something nearly
as much fun today

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as it was
in the early 20th century--

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a trapdoor in the theater.

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If you knew where it was,

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as John does,

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you could open it up
and crawl out onto the roof,

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where it's said that many
an evening's entertainment

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was capped
by a spectacular view

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that stretched for miles
and miles and miles.

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And if the night
was especially clear,

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it was said
that you could see the future--

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a future that would be quite
different than Jule and Alice,

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Doré and Gilmer,
ever could have imagined...

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from high atop their Folly.

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♪

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(man)
Six feet tall,
one hundred fifty pounds--

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that's me as a kid.

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[film projector whirring]
err, err...err

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A quarterback,
running back,

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defensive back,
and kicker--

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high school football
consumed me then.

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[man yelling]
Dive, dive!

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(man)
This is me now--

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6 feet tall,
200 pounds--

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a cameraman, reporter,
producer,

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and Monday morning quarterback.

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Can I catch
you real quick, Coach?

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Still chasing the football,

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but from outside of the lines.

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A lot has changed
since I was a kid...

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[crowd cheering]

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but some things have not.

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On any Friday in autumn,

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you can still see
how it used to be

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'cause this
is how it still is.

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[male public address announcer]
We need you here tonight, folks.

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Ragsdale's comin'
to town 4-1--

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we're 4-1--
this is a big one.

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So everybody in the school,
get that arm up in the sky

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and point that index finger up.

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One, two, three--

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[all]
Go Cats!

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(Sullivan)
Friday afternoon's at
Eastern Randolph High School--

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not much different, I'm told,

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than Friday afternoons
of years gone by.

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The Wildcats football team
has a lot of history,

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and it's gotten
a lot of attention.

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In just a few hours,

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they'll play longtime rival
Ragsdale on this field.

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Right now we're on a 14-game
home-winning streak,

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which we'd like
to keep intact tonight,

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but uh, as we tell our players,
that's gonna--

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that streak will end.

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But we just don't want it
to be tonight.

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[cheerleading together]
♪ W-i-l-d-c-a-t-s

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♪ Wildcats

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♪ Wildcats ♪

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(Cates)
Our community takes a lot
of pride in their football.

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You got it.

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(Cates)
And it's evident

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by the way our fans
turn out for our home games.

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Y'all gonna
join us?

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(Cates)
And it's even more amazing

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when they turn out
for our away games.

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(Sullivan)
Guys, tell me--
is this a regular ritual?

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This is our
most extreme.

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We've done
this before, though.

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We had just
painted letters--

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now we're paintin'
our whole selves.

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Yeah, it takes about
a squirt of paint for him.

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(Cates)
You know,
we're very fortunate.

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We've got kids
on our football team

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that do well in the classroom--
they do well in other areas,

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and it's easy
to pull for somebody

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when they're successful.

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[drum sets rhythm]

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[brass lead fight song]

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♪

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(man)
This is like going back
in a time capsule.

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Football's still king here.

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(referee)
Okay, Ragsdale in white;

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Eastern Randolph in green.

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(man)
And on Saturday mornings
when they go downtown,

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they gotta answer questions
if they don't win.

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♪

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(PA announcer)
Taken by number 4
at the 45 yard line.

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clp, clp...clp

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(Sullivan)
The challenge
for Eastern Randolph tonight

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will be to find a way to slow
down number 22 for Ragsdale.

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That's Tony Baker,

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the most prolific running back
in North Carolina history,

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and it doesn't
look good early on.

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[crowd yelling]
Yeaaaa!

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

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(PA announcer)
In the end zone,

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number 22, Tony Baker--
touchdown Tigers.

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(Sullivan)
The visitor's already lead 7-0,

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and they are about
to score again

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when Eastern Randolph
gets a break.

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(radio announcer)
Ball's popped loose--

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Eastern Randolph
comes out with it.

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Val Mosely runs down
the right sideline--

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50, 40, 30, 20, 10, 5--
touchdown Wildcats!

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Number 1!

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Yeah,
number 1, baby!

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That is a big
turnaround there--

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big turnaround.

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(Sullivan)
Harold Nibbett has not missed

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an Eastern Randolph game
since before 1970.

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(PA announcer)
It's good.

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

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(Nibbett)
Now, I love college football,
and I love the NFL,

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but there's somethin'
about this.

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You get attached
to these kids.

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I adopt them
as my sons--ha, ha.

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[brass lead fight song]

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♪

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

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(crowd)
♪ Heyyy ♪

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(Sullivan)
There's nothing like a high
school football Friday night.

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♪

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I love being
around the kind of people

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that come to these games--
people that have energy.

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Go Ragsdale!

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Get out of here!

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Go Wildcats!

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People that have enthusiasm,
people that have desire--

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they're not afraid
to line up against one another

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and see who's better than who.

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♪

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

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But the fact that they stop it
between every play

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and they line up again

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and they try to decide
what they're gonna do

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to outsmart the other guy
or outslug the other guy--

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it's like a little war,

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but they play it
over and over again,

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and nobody gets hurt.

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[crowd yelling]

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

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(Sullivan)
Who do you think's
gonna win tonight?

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[all]
Eastern Randolph!

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It's
settled.

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Now it's getting late.

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The tension is building.

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The TV news is now
less than an hour away.

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Like a quarterback
on third down and long,

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a good sports photographer
lives for this situation.

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(man)
I don't know--
our show hits at 11:00--

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45 minutes back
to the station.

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I got
a live truck, though.

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(Sullivan)
Patience pays off
for the cameraman

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and for the Eastern
Randolph Wildcats.

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The go-ahead touchdown
comes in the fourth quarter.

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

18:00.935 --> 18:04.934
The offense had come
from behind to take the lead...

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and the defense
met the challenge

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of bottling up number 22

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just often enough
to get the victory.

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Gooooo!

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♪

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(boy #1)
Good job, baby.

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(boy #2)
Good job, y'all.

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You got to see
high school football
at its best tonight.

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And you couldn't ask
for a better game to do.

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(Sullivan)
Many things have changed

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from generation to generation,

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but Friday nights at the
high school football field...

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are just as good
as they used to be.

18:41.668 --> 18:44.667
[film projector whirring]
err, err...err

18:49.167 --> 18:53.167
[xylophone and brass
suggest African theme]

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yeowwww

18:54.968 --> 18:57.500
[bird chirping]
twi-whi, twi-whi...twi-whi

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♪

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(narrator)
The North Carolina Zoo,

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one of the best known natural
habitat zoos in the nation.

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♪

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Our zoo has been
a pioneer in creating

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a bold, new design for exhibits,

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one that involved turning
a section of Randolph County

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into environments
that might be found

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on an entirely
different continent

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halfway around the world.

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[airy flute joins]

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But this place
really ought to be called

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the North Carolina Zoo
and Botanical Garden,

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because that's what it is--

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an environment where the plants

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are as carefully chosen
and displayed as the animals...

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♪

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a showcase
for the relatively new science

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of zoo horticulture.

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(woman)
In the old days,

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zoos had bars and they had
very sterile cages.

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We've come a long way
in the last 25 years

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with zoo horticulture.

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We try and cluster
exhibits together,

20:04.534 --> 20:07.601
and then with the plant
material, with the landscapes,

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we recreate representations
of those kind of wild places

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at those continents.

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♪

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We're a little bit ecologist,
we're a little bit botanist,

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and we're a whole lot
horticulturist.

20:22.601 --> 20:25.101
And you have to put
all those skills together,

20:25.201 --> 20:27.001
and you don't actually come away

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from, like,
a college degree with that.

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You have to kind
of get that on-site.

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There's no zoo horticulture
college degree.

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[indistinct talking]

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The really kind of uniqueness
about zoo horticulture

20:39.701 --> 20:42.568
is the animals
and what sort of behaviors

20:42.668 --> 20:45.101
we want to elicit
from the animals.

20:45.201 --> 20:47.968
And many times,
I use the animal curators

20:48.068 --> 20:52.002
to help me decide
what they think their animals

20:52.102 --> 20:54.668
are going to do
and how they're going to react,

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so that I know
which plants to choose and--

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or which plants might hurt them

20:58.967 --> 21:00.668
or which plants
might not hurt them

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or what plants
they want to actually use

21:03.168 --> 21:07.101
to get them to climb or
to get them to hide in the bush

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or to make
their nest--whatever.

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♪

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So the design principles
for landscapes

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is much more than just
how do you get a plant to grow.

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♪

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(narrator)
Getting plants from faraway
places to grow happily

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in North Carolina
can be quite a challenge,

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but one that was met
with great success

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in the Sonoran Desert exhibit.

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(woman)
We try to mimic desert
conditions as much as possible.

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This exhibit has relative--
low relative humidity levels.

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We water very sparingly.

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The cacti--

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the large cacti, say, are only
watered three times a year.

21:50.368 --> 21:52.368
(narrator)
This spectacular dome building

21:52.468 --> 21:56.501
is basically 14,000 square feet
of desert under glass.

21:56.601 --> 21:58.968
Inside,
it is almost another world,

21:59.068 --> 22:01.834
but the glass lets
the view extend to the outside,

22:01.934 --> 22:03.534
where, as much as possible,

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a desert environment
also was created.

22:05.867 --> 22:07.735
[Spanish guitar
plays boldly]

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(Wall)
Part of what we do
when we design landscapes

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is we have to understand
the environmental criterias

22:13.501 --> 22:15.835
and the growing conditions
of the plants.

22:15.935 --> 22:18.167
At the desert
it was especially hard

22:18.267 --> 22:20.267
because our growing
conditions outside

22:20.368 --> 22:22.534
are certainly
not desert conditions.

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We have a lot of rain;
we have cold winters.

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And putting the cold
and wet together,

22:27.534 --> 22:31.434
what we had to do on the design
of the desert was to berm up,

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so that we have
very good drainage.

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We had to use a sandy loam soil,

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and we had to make microclimates

22:38.067 --> 22:40.800
so that we could
test different things.

22:40.900 --> 22:48.800
♪

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(narrator)
Like the desert,

22:50.534 --> 22:52.633
creating a rain forest
in North Carolina

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had to be done under glass.

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Three thousand plants
from four hundred fifty species

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make up this popular exhibit,

22:59.501 --> 23:02.034
home to a wide variety of birds

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who would not be at home
here without the plants.

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(Wall)
The R.J. Reynolds Forest Aviary
is a tropical exhibit--

23:10.668 --> 23:14.401
plants and birds from
any tropical area of the world.

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Instead of a rain forest,

23:16.634 --> 23:19.601
it's more like
a tropical forest clearing,

23:19.701 --> 23:22.867
where perhaps
a large canopy tree came down.

23:22.967 --> 23:25.368
And it opens up a gap

23:25.468 --> 23:28.034
so that a lot of sunlight
streams through,

23:28.134 --> 23:30.368
and you have
a flush of new plants

23:30.468 --> 23:33.368
trying to take advantage
of the light.

23:33.468 --> 23:37.234
The birds really use the trees
and the plants in the aviary.

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Primarily,
they use them for nesting.

23:39.735 --> 23:41.835
They use them to roost at night

23:41.935 --> 23:45.701
and for shelter
from other birds occasionally.

23:45.801 --> 23:47.868
There's always
something flowering.

23:47.968 --> 23:52.301
We have a lot of birds that
enjoy the nectar of the flowers.

23:52.401 --> 23:55.067
[xylophone and flute
resume African theme]

23:55.167 --> 23:56.568
(narrator)
Once you realize

23:56.668 --> 23:59.167
the zoo is a complex series
of elaborate gardens,

23:59.267 --> 24:01.834
you then appreciate
the large staff of specialists

24:01.934 --> 24:03.768
it takes to maintain it--

24:03.868 --> 24:06.267
as many horticulturists
as animal keepers

24:06.368 --> 24:08.401
to keep it all running smoothly.

24:08.501 --> 24:10.835
And the horticulture staff
is keenly aware

24:10.935 --> 24:14.634
of their part in the educational
experience of the zoo.

24:14.735 --> 24:17.668
(man)
The way that we can teach
conservation to visitors

24:17.768 --> 24:21.334
is that they're able to see
some of these rare habitats,

24:21.434 --> 24:24.135
like mountain bogs--
there are so few of those.

24:24.235 --> 24:26.301
And most folks probably
wouldn't have the opportunity

24:26.401 --> 24:28.101
to go visit a mountain bog.

24:28.201 --> 24:30.434
Yet I think
they can come here

24:30.534 --> 24:33.301
and they can see
what a mountain bog looks like

24:33.401 --> 24:36.102
and, in doing so,
realize that these habitats

24:36.202 --> 24:40.002
are home to some very rare
plants and that, you know,

24:40.102 --> 24:43.668
without these plants, we won't
have a lot of the animals

24:43.768 --> 24:45.900
that are associated
with these habitats.

24:46.001 --> 24:48.534
♪

24:48.634 --> 24:50.801
(Wall)
Plants are really cool.

24:50.901 --> 24:53.935
They--they provide
everything that we need,

24:54.035 --> 24:58.900
and what I perceive is that
people do not appreciate plants

24:59.001 --> 25:01.301
because they
are so there for them.

25:01.401 --> 25:04.201
I want them to realize
just how essential plants are,

25:04.301 --> 25:06.434
and I want them
to care about plants,

25:06.534 --> 25:09.001
because their survival
depends on it.

25:09.101 --> 25:10.735
(narrator)
So don't miss out

25:10.835 --> 25:13.201
on one of the best
around-the-world trips

25:13.301 --> 25:15.034
right here in North Carolina.

25:15.134 --> 25:17.500
Come on down to the zoo.

25:17.600 --> 25:21.800
♪

25:24.534 --> 25:27.233
[xylophone and acoustic guitar
lead airy arrangement]

25:27.333 --> 25:39.934
♪

25:40.034 --> 25:42.600
[flute joins]

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♪

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♪

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♪

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♪

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♪

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♪

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[electronic piano
suggests chamber music]

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♪

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[indistinct crowd noise]

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[whistle blaring]
whiiii

27:24.401 --> 27:26.300
[violins join]

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♪

27:36.400 --> 27:46.367
♪

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(announcer)
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[crickets chirping]
chiiii

28:02.701 --> 28:05.167
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