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<i>[bright acoustic guitar tune]</i>

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<i>(narrator)
Fishing is a hopeful endeavor.</i>

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<i>Think about it.</i>

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<i>You enter
into nature's realm</i>

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<i>with great expectation,</i>

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<i>even if your fishing
is limited to a farm pond.</i>

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<i>And there you make
sort of a bargain</i>

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<i>with the Divine,</i>

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<i>who will loan you His fish
for a while</i>

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<i>just for the fun of it,</i>

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<i>although one could
easily conclude</i>

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<i>that the fish aren't having
nearly as much fun as you are,</i>

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<i>especially if you get to fish
on a warm spring afternoon</i>

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<i>with your grandson.</i>

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<i>For Duane Raver,
fishing and fish</i>

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<i>have been his way of life
and vocation</i>

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<i>for a very long time.</i>

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<i>He's been catching
and painting fish</i>

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<i>for going on eight decades.</i>

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♪

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<i>If you've ever seen
magazine covers like these</i>

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<i>over the years,</i>

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<i>you've seen Duane Raver's art.</i>

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♪

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<i>It's little wonder
that a fish just like this</i>

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<i>could find its way
first onto canvas</i>

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<i>and then into print,</i>

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<i>and wonder more that Duane
got into art at all</i>

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<i>after hearing what
his high school art teacher</i>

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<i>had to say back in Iowa.</i>

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"Mr. Raver,
I just don't believe

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you've got a--
a future in artwork."

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<i>(narrator)
Clearly he did,</i>

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<i>but it took awhile
for him to</i>get<i>the idea.</i>

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<i>(Raver)
I was really surprised</i>

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<i>that I had that ability.</i>

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<i>I thought the kid
right next to me in the desk</i>

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<i>could do exactly
the same thing I could do.</i>

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<i>Well, obviously,
it was a gift that I was given</i>

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<i>that most kids there
did not have.</i>

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<i>I remember the one, uh,
that I got paid for.</i>

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The first--
my first assignment

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was the<i>Fin and Feather News</i>,

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in Lufkin, Texas,
and I got five dollars.

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I think that must have been
about 1946 or '7,

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and I thought,
"Whoa! That's great."

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So that was my introduction
to professional artwork.

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<i>(narrator)
By 1949,</i>

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<i>Duane had finished school
with a degree</i>

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<i>in fishery management
from Iowa State College</i>

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<i>and was ready
to tackle real life.</i>

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Got a call one day
from North Carolina.

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Friend of mine, uh--

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we had sort of
a mutual agreement

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that if he got a job
that I might be interested in,

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uh, he'd let me know,
and vice versa.

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Well, he was first to call.

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"I'm leaving North Carolina;
come down and take my job."

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<i>The Wildlife Commission
was only, uh,</i>

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<i>two or three years old
and kind of an infancy,</i>

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<i>and certainly,
the fish division</i>

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<i>needed a lot of, um,
organization.</i>

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<i>(narrator)
The new Tar Heel
got right to work</i>

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<i>taking stock of fish
in North Carolina's reservoirs</i>

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<i>and as it turned out,
got to work</i>

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<i>helping put together
the Commission's new magazine.</i>

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<i>(man)
I think, for a long time,
Duane</i>was<i>the magazine.</i>

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I mean, Duane literally,

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for some years,

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did everything
there was to do

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<i>for the magazine.</i>

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<i>Duane would paint the covers.</i>

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<i>He would paint illustrations</i>

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<i>for the inside
of the magazine.</i>

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<i>He would, uh,
literally paste up the pages</i>

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<i>uh, when--</i>

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<i>when, you know,
pages had to be pasted up</i>

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<i>and then shot,
and the negatives, uh, were--</i>

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<i>were printed, um.</i>

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<i>Duane did everything.</i>

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<i>I mean, I think, really,
Duane made this magazine.</i>

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I think his paintings
made this magazine.

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<i>(Raver)
I strive for accuracy--hah!</i>

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<i>What comes to mind
was a cover that I did</i>

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for the<i>Wildlife</i>magazine
of a turkey gobbler.

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And, uh,
it got in print,

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and about two weeks later,
I got a, uh--a communiqué

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from a turkey hunter
in Florida.

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"Mr. Raver,
that's a nice gobbler on there,

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but it's the only I ever saw
that didn't have any spurs."

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I had not put the spurs
on the gobbler,

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so that was obviously
in print,

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and I'll never live--
live it down,

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and so I've made
some mistakes, um,

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in my checkered past.

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There's no question
about that.

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<i>(narrator)
After his retirement</i>

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<i>from the Wildlife Commission
in 1979,</i>

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<i>Raver launched himself
full time</i>

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<i>into the freelance world.</i>

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♪

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<i>(Raver)
Fishes of the Southeast
United States--</i>

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<i>we did 150 illustrations,</i>

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<i>both fresh
and saltwater there.</i>

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<i>Whoa, those have been used
and used and used,</i>

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<i>which is great.</i>

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<i>(narrator)
Despite his success,</i>

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<i>Duane sometimes
seems to agree,</i>

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<i>at least in part,</i>

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<i>with his high school
art teacher</i>

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<i>that he can paint this,
but he can't paint that,</i>

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<i>and he doesn't consider
himself an artist.</i>

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<i>(Raver)
I--I classify myself
as an illustrator</i>

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<i>as opposed to an artist, um.</i>

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<i>Now, you may say,</i>

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<i>Well, I don't see
the differentiation.</i>

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<i>Well, uh,
there is, uh,</i>

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<i>certainly,
in my judgment, uh,</i>

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<i>considerable difference there.</i>

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<i>I cannot do abstracts.</i>

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<i>I don't do portraits.</i>

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<i>I had to learn
to do, um, waterfowl, um.</i>

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<i>Demand--</i>

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<i>"Hey, can you do
a goose painting</i>

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<i>or a duck painting?"</i>

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<i>"Well, yeah I can try,"</i>

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<i>and that took a while to--
to develop that.</i>

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<i>I was so into fish</i>

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<i>that anything else
was a real challenge.</i>

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<i>I simply had to learn--
and I'm still learning there,</i>

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<i>so--whoa--after, whatever,
70-some years just to be sure.</i>

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<i>Now, every day, I--
I learn something, I hope.</i>

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<i>(narrator)
This ever-learning,
ever-fresh artist</i>

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<i>has plenty of opportunity
to hone his technique</i>

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<i>and paint even more
new subjects</i>

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<i>because his daughter Diane
operates a taxidermy business</i>

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<i>as part
of their Wake County studio.</i>

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Well, I do remember,
he would work--

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paint at night

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when he would come home
from work, so, um,

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I would spend time there
in his--in his workroom,

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and he may have had a--
a duck wing, um,

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those kinds of things
that he was workin' on.

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<i>So that's a very early
memory for me.</i>

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<i>(narrator)
And that's not
the only difference.</i>

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<i>Having Diane so close by
has been a blessing...</i>

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<i>both ways.</i>

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<i>(Braswell)
It's great.</i>

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<i>He works in this section,
and I work downstairs</i>

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<i>in my section, um.</i>

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<i>Even though we work, maybe,
together all day long,</i>

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<i>we may not have a whole lot
of interaction some days,</i>

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<i>and then other days,</i>

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<i>he'll advise me
on bill color of ducks</i>

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<i>or, uh, habitat material,
things like that</i>

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<i>that he's, uh--
helps me with.</i>

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<i>I've done a lot
of commercial deer heads</i>

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<i>over the years,
but my, um--</i>

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<i>my preference
was always with waterfowl.</i>

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<i>There's so many
different species,</i>

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<i>different poses--
flying, standing, uh--</i>

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<i>a lot more interesting.</i>

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♪

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<i>(narrator)
Both father and daughter
consult the real thing</i>

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<i>from time to time,</i>

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<i>including a stash
of bird wings</i>

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<i>Duane keeps
in a file cabinet.</i>

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<i>When painting something
as elaborate</i>

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<i>and finely detailed
as this mother wood duck</i>

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<i>and her hatchlings,</i>

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<i>he often refers
to actual specimens,</i>

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<i>much like Audubon did
for his life studies.</i>

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♪

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<i>Now let's finish up
with a story</i>

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<i>plus a keen observation.</i>

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This is an original
watercoloring

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that Duane Raver did in 1946

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when he was a student
at Iowa State College.

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<i>And this was found in a--</i>

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<i>in a--a pile
of belongings, uh,</i>

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<i>from one of his college mates
back in--in those days.</i>

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And, uh, the daughter

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of the college friend
found this,

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didn't know
who Duane Raver was,

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googled the name,

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and found out
that he was an artist and--

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and an illustrator
famous in North Carolina,

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contacted Duane, and--

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and asked what to do
with this original artwork.

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Duane said,

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"Send it to the Wildlife
Resources Commission,

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and they'll be proud
to display it,"

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and this is one
of our proudest items

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we're glad to have
from, uh, 1946.

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Even today, uh,
when I go across the state,

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or sometimes people
will call in

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or send a letter in,

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<i>and they will talk about
seeing Duane's paintings</i>

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<i>on the cover
when they were growin' up</i>

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<i>or the fact that they have
Duane's paintings</i>

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<i>in their house now,</i>

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<i>and how much pleasure
they get from that,</i>

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<i>and I--
I think a large part of that</i>

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<i>goes back to them seein'
those paintings on a cover</i>

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<i>when they were children,</i>

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<i>and, you know,
Duane's paintings</i>

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evoke, I think, a nostalgia,
uh, for those people.

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<i>I--I mean,
I know they do for me.</i>

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<i>It's hard to think
about wildlife</i>

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<i>in North Carolina</i>

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<i>and not think
about Duane Raver.</i>

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<i>[harmonica concludes
guitar tune]</i>

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♪