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♪

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building orchestration]

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Welcome to "Our State,"

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of North Carolina

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On this edition, an icon

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and landmark for generations

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becomes our newest state park,

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one family's

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unique contribution

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to the preservation

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and breeding of waterfowl,

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and North Carolina's

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showboat battleship

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houses some surprises

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below decks.

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[mellow mandolin
and bass arrangement]

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♪

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(male narrator)
It all began

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with a 25¢ ride
up the mountain...

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by donkey, mule,
or horseback...

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depending on which story
you believe.

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(woman)
Well, Dr. Lucius Morse
was from St. Louis,

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and he came to this area,

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actually,
because he had tuberculosis

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and he was looking
for a better climate.

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And so he used to ride
down on horseback,

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down into Hickory Nut Gorge,

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and he saw the monolith
known as Chimney Rock

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and thought, "Wow!

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This is an incredible place
for a tourist attraction."

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And so that really was
the beginning of his dream.

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(narrator)
All that happened
back around 1902.

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But there's a whole lot
of Dr. Morse's dream

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that happened
between 1902 and today,

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including participation
by two older brothers

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in his dream--

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twin brothers who quickly
became as smitten as Dr. Morse

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by Chimney Rock
and its possibilities.

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(Jaeger-Gale)
Dr. Lucius--he was the one
that had the vision--

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Hiram and Asahel
were the ones

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that helped to bankroll
the operation.

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(narrator)
When the Morse brothers bought

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the original 64 acres
of Chimney Rock Mountain

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from Jerome Freeman,
their first challenge

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was how to get visitors
safely up the mountain,

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beginning
with an access road.

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(man)
You can just imagine
what it's like

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to build a road
on the side of a mountain.

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They got about two miles
up the road

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and the engineers were telling
them to stop at that point

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because they encountered
so much rock

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that it made it very difficult
to get past.

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They ended up buying some
property on top of the mountain

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to get some water
to power their steam drills

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and blasted on
through the rock

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and got
the last mile completed.

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[arrangement slows]

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(narrator)
Building the road also meant

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bridging the Rocky Broad River,

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which they accomplished
by June of 1916.

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A few weeks later,
on the 4th of July,

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Mother Nature whipped up
a pretty good storm

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and an ambitious flood
that undid all their good work

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by washing
the new bridge away.

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[somber string arrangement]

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(Jaeger-Gale)
That probably would have put
lots of people--

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like, "that's enough for me,"

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but it didn't daunt
their spirits.

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They went right back at it
and built the road.

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That was really the beginning
of the real access.

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(narrator)
And people came
from all around

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in their horse-drawn
carriages,

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then their Model Ts,

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and parked
at the chimney's base,

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where you could
relax at the inn

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that backed up against
the cliffside at that time.

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But getting to the base
of the chimney

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was just the first part
of your journey.

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Heh--you still had
some climbing to do.

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The 470 steps
they built to the top

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was quite an improvement

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over what earlier visitors
had to negotiate.

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(Jaeger-Gale)
They had some pretty
rudimentary stairs and things,

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and we hear that people
shimmied up locust posts

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to get up on top
of the chimney.

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I think, when there's
a will, there's a way,

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and that's pretty much
the access that they had.

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(narrator)
Another part
of the doctor's ambitious dream

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was to change the view
from his mountain,

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which he actually
made happen in the 1920s

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by creating Lake Lure.

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[airy flute leads
plucked mandolin]

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♪

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But the long-term goal

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of a first-class resort
to encompass Chimney Rock Park

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was derailed
by Depression-era economics.

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And about the same time,
ambitious plans were hatched

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to improve access
to the mountain even more

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in a novel
and dramatic fashion.

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(Jaeger-Gale)
This was a dream
of Hiram Morse.

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He wanted everyone
to have access to the mountain,

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and so they looked
at all kinds of ways.

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They looked at funiculars,

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but the elevator seemed
to make the most sense.

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They had plans for that
and talked about that

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early on in the century,
but it wasn't until 1948

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that they actually
accomplished that goal.

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[banjo chord]

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(narrator)
An elevator?

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Up the side
of a mountain?!

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No...
inside the mountain.

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[twanging banjo introduces
mellow mandolin arrangement]

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(Morse)
They did some
engineering studies,

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and unfortunately
those studies happened

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around the time
that Dr. Morse passed away,

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so I think he
was probably involved

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with the idea
of the elevator

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but didn't get to see it
to its completion.

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And they began construction,
I guess, back in 1947,

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and it took about, uh,

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18 months
and 8 tons of dynamite.

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Blasting into the rock
and then straight up

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was a pretty incredible thing,

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given the fact
that the hoistway

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is a 258-foot shaft, uh,
straight up into the mountain.

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♪

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It was the tallest elevator
in the state of North Carolina

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when it was constructed

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and then opened to the public
in 1949, and um,

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some people ask me,
Why don't you have another one?

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heh, heh, heh

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[gentle melody]

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(narrator)
Today's visitors are reminded

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what a feat
of engineering this was

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by displays posted along
the 198-foot tunnel walkway.

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♪

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So glad y'all
come to see us,
and y'all enjoy!

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Thank
you.

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Thanks.

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(narrator)
The trip to the top takes...

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about 30 seconds.

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And then
once you arrive,

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you can enjoy
the 75-mile view,

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visit the Opera Box,

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long a favorite spot,

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or climb
the remaining 44 stairs

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to look out from the chimney
top's 1,965-foot elevation.

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[airy flute leads
plucked mandolin]

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Other scenic attractions--

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the Devil's Head outcropping,

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or you can try

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squeezing your way
through narrow Needle's Eye...

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[banjo twangs]

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(man)
There they are, right?

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♪

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(man #2)
One at a time.

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(man #3)
Pants off and go
one leg at time.

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(narrator)
...or perhaps even hike
to Hickory Nut Falls.

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At 404 feet, it's one
of our state's highest

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and was part
of a well-known scene

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from the feature film
"The Last of the Mohicans."

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[mandolin leads
resonant strings]

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♪

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Of course, the main attraction
remains the magnificent view

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of Hickory Nut Gorge
and Lake Lure from the chimney.

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[airy flute leads
plucked mandolin]

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♪

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Resisting the pressure
of commercial development

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and after much thought
and soul searching,

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the Morse family
decided in 2007

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to sell
the 996-acre park

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to the state
of North Carolina.

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The result is
a much larger park,

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more like Lucius Morse
envisioned all those years ago.

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[tempo slows]

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(woman)
For a long time,
there were ideas and plans,

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as part of the New Parks
for a New Century initiative,

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to develop the
Hickory Nut Gorge State Park.

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And lands had
already been acquired,

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and the General Assembly
had already authorized

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the development of the
Hickory Nut Gorge State Park.

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The lands were adjacent,
and it made sense

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to make a contiguous park

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and include
the Chimney Rock Park.

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♪

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And so this is very new,

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and we're all learning
as we go, every day.

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♪

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I'm tickled to death
to be here.

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♪

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(Jaeger-Gale)
The thing that probably was

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most concerning to folks
in the community

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was that it continued
to be a park,

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that it would continue to, um,
bring guests to our area

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because our entire area is
totally dependent on tourism.

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And of course our associates
that we work with--

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me included--
were very concerned

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about what happens to us
if it becomes a state park.

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And I think the Morse family's
concern, too,

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is not just
about their property

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and making sure that it
was preserved and shared,

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but also that the community
and the associates

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and their family
found the best solution.

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(Morse)
We were so delighted that
the state of North Carolina--

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the state parks--
recognized that,

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and it certainly was a win
for our employees

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and, I believe,
the community

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because the people
that have been working here

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over all these years
were able to continue

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to do what they do best
and what they love to do.

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And I hope the people of North
Carolina will be satisfied

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because the people
that love Chimney Rock

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will be able
to experience it

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in much the same way
as they have in years past

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for many generations to come,

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I think,
as a result of this agreement.

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[trilling flute
leads plucking mandolin]

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♪

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[electronic strings
and woodwinds resonate]

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♪

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[squealing birds]

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(female narrator)
Welcome to waterfowl heaven.

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If there's any place
in the world

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that might qualify
to be called that,

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it's probably this place,
right here in North Carolina.

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At this extraordinary spot
in Scotland Neck,

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Mike and Ali Lubbock,
their son Brent,

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and their staff
have created,

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if not
a waterfowl heaven...

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then something
that comes mighty close.

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(man)
This facility is set up

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for the public
to be able to learn more

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about the waterfowl
found throughout the world

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and other birds too.

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[long, descending call]

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We have
about a thousand birds,

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170 species, uh,
mainly waterfowl,

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which is ducks,
geese, and swans.

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[squawking]

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We are the largest
collection of waterfowl

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for view to the public.

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There might be other
collections around the world,

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but there's nothing
this size or magnitude

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that the public can view.

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(narrator)
It's a dream come true

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for the husband
and wife team,

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who came here from England
some 20 years ago

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and declared
this area perfect.

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(Mike Lubbock)
The temperature was right.

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The winters were not harsh,
and everything about it--

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it's a farming community,

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and, basically, I was farming
waterfowl at the time.

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We worked with the United States
when we were based in England--

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a lot with, particularly,
Sea World

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and a lot of the other zoos--
Bronx Zoo and such.

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And they really introduced me
to the North Carolina Zoo.

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And then Zoo Society
of North Carolina--

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the zoo partnershiped
with us--

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and if it hadn't
been for them,

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we couldn't put
this together.

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They obviously wanted my birds
because I was bringing birds

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in from Europe which
they didn't have over here.

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(Ali Lubbock)
It's been really wonderful

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to have
a reverse situation here.

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We're helping supply them
with most of the waterfowl

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in all of the zoos
in the United States.

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It's a '07 bird,

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and it was reared
at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl.

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♪

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(narrator)
Mike and his wife Ali
both arrived here

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with considerable
aviculture experience,

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most notably,
deep expertise

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in the breeding
of endangered waterfowl.

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(Mike Lubbock)
Our breeding center
is very different

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from what the public
see over here.

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We actually
don't take the public.

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We take members,
and we have to escort them.

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It's designed
for breeding birds

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and not for walking around.

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The other
name for them
is zebra duck

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because of the--
the stripes on them.

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(narrator)
Here's one fascinating
example of their work--

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a baby Eurasian eagle owl
which has fallen from its nest.

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This little fellow
isn't as tiny as he looks.

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And it isn't quite as simple
as you might think

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restoring him to his mama!

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[strings lead
suspenseful arrangement]

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♪

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(Mike Lubbock)
Everybody stay still, please.

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[cage doors clattering]

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(narrator)
All's well that ends well.

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Breeding birds is all
about new beginnings...

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[soft, chiming
celesta melody]

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...which starts,
of course, with an egg.

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And what's fascinating
is that the first step

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in the incubation
of a rare waterfowl egg

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is to stick it under a local,
garden-variety chicken

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for a while.

13:53.835 --> 13:56.101
(man)
We actually find
that birds are better

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at starting the eggs off
or sitting on the eggs

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than using incubators
from day one.

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[clucking]

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They come out
for 25 minutes.

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They feed, go to the toilet,

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have something to drink,

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and, um, we check
the duck eggs.

14:11.601 --> 14:14.900
What I do is,
I shine a light through.

14:15.001 --> 14:17.668
What I'm looking for
is fertility.

14:17.768 --> 14:20.968
Any bad eggs
have to come out.

14:21.068 --> 14:23.967
Otherwise it'll make
all the other eggs go bad.

14:24.067 --> 14:26.800
This one actually
started but it went off.

14:26.900 --> 14:28.900
It didn't get any further,

14:29.001 --> 14:32.201
so I'll have to take
that one out.

14:32.301 --> 14:35.401
So, now that they've
had their break,

14:35.501 --> 14:38.200
it's time for them
to go back to work.

14:39.468 --> 14:41.601
So the eggs'll
stay under here

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for about 18 days before
they move into incubator room.

14:46.633 --> 14:48.901
♪

14:49.002 --> 14:52.234
(Mike Lubbock)
In the very early days, when
I first got into waterfowl,

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birds were caught
out of the wild

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and brought back
into captivity.

14:56.067 --> 14:58.768
Well, those birds had
that migratory instinct,

14:58.868 --> 15:00.701
so that when
the breeding season came,

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they wanted to go
back up north.

15:02.867 --> 15:04.800
They were never
very settled.

15:04.900 --> 15:06.534
[clarinet leads]

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Well, I pioneered
collecting waterfowl eggs.

15:09.134 --> 15:10.768
You go out to the wild

15:10.868 --> 15:12.835
and you collect two eggs
from a clutch,

15:12.935 --> 15:14.700
so you're not actually
hurting the birds

15:14.800 --> 15:16.568
because a clutch
is ten eggs.

15:16.668 --> 15:19.533
You bring the eggs back
into a captive situation...

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Uh, oh.

15:20.900 --> 15:22.234
...and you rear them,

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and then they don't know
any different, really.

15:24.401 --> 15:25.934
And this helped us
tremendously

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for breeding these birds
in the future.

15:28.468 --> 15:30.434
Because we keep quite
a few birds together,

15:30.534 --> 15:33.301
not all of them are allowed
to rear their own young,

15:33.401 --> 15:36.167
but some of the swans
and some and geese are allowed

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to rear their youngsters 'cause
they're very good parents.

15:39.867 --> 15:41.768
[tender celesta arrangement]

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(narrator)
This is what
a black swan looks like

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when it gets
a little older.

15:46.201 --> 15:48.767
She and the intern
are in training.

15:48.867 --> 15:50.401
Mostly take her
swimming--

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I spend at least four hours
a day with her.

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That way she'll get used
to people, not only me.

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[squealing]

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You're getting too big,
aren't you?

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(narrator) Without the help of
this intern and young
volunteers,

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Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park
and Eco-Center

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wouldn't be nearly
as successful.

16:08.800 --> 16:10.102
[trilling]

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(Ali Lubbock)
Just volunteers
from other countries

16:12.202 --> 16:14.867
that just want to come
and learn about the waterfowl--

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we're unbelievably
dependent on them.

16:16.967 --> 16:18.868
♪

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(narrator)
But it's also about the future,

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especially endangered species
and vanishing habitat.

16:24.768 --> 16:27.002
(Mike Lubbock)
This is
the white-winged wood duck.

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It's probably one of
the rarest ducks in the world.

16:29.668 --> 16:31.900
There are only about 200
left in the wild.

16:32.001 --> 16:33.501
And they come
from Sumatra.

16:33.601 --> 16:35.468
Vietnam,
they used to be in.

16:35.568 --> 16:37.401
Habitat has been
their problem,

16:37.501 --> 16:39.401
and, obviously, in Vietnam

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with all the Agent Orange
during the Vietnam War.

16:42.534 --> 16:45.601
But we've been breeding them
now for several years,

16:45.701 --> 16:48.701
and then what I do with
these birds is loan them out

16:48.801 --> 16:50.301
to zoos
and private collections

16:50.401 --> 16:52.634
so that we can bring
those birds back here.

16:52.735 --> 16:54.968
Give 'em the time;
when we find a place

16:55.068 --> 16:57.801
we can put them back,
that's what we're going to do.

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(narrator)
You might say that this
place is for the birds...

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all shapes...

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sizes...

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colors...

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[birds squealing]

17:08.134 --> 17:10.134
...and degrees
of cuteness.

17:10.234 --> 17:13.301
♪

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From cartoon ducks...

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to showoff peacocks...

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flamingos straight
from a postcard...

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and just about
everything in between.

17:25.701 --> 17:28.901
And doesn't it seem that
that's the way it should be

17:29.002 --> 17:32.500
for a place that could easily
be called waterfowl heaven?

17:32.600 --> 17:34.500
♪

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[bird calls]

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[droning bass note]

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♪

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[suspenseful
piano chords join]

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♪

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(male narrator)
In the dark corners
of almost every basement,

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there are secrets...

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tucked away in faded cartons
on long-forgotten shelves,

17:58.668 --> 18:02.101
far-removed
from the light of day,

18:02.201 --> 18:03.835
visible only momentarily

18:03.935 --> 18:07.167
in the sweeping arc
of an exploring lamp.

18:07.267 --> 18:11.301
If only we had the time to
pick our way through it all,

18:11.401 --> 18:14.200
what hidden treasures
we could find.

18:14.300 --> 18:16.368
♪

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[gentle piano melody]

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Welcome to the Battleship
North Carolina, more properly,

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the USS North Carolina
Battleship Memorial.

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This magnificent vessel
was once

18:27.601 --> 18:29.868
the world's greatest
seaborne weapon,

18:29.968 --> 18:33.767
a gun platform of almost
unimaginable power,

18:33.867 --> 18:36.200
at least in 1941.

18:37.468 --> 18:39.368
It's hard to imagine
what wartime

18:39.468 --> 18:41.234
on this vessel was like,

18:41.334 --> 18:42.967
but on special occasions,

18:43.067 --> 18:45.468
a dedicated volunteer
living-history crew

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tries to help visitors
understand.

18:48.533 --> 18:50.500
Range 1,800--

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elevation 1,500.

18:52.567 --> 18:53.834
Track on target!

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[explosions]

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[strings lead
grim composition]

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(narrator)
North Carolina participated
in every major offensive battle

19:00.067 --> 19:02.267
in the Pacific during that war.

19:02.368 --> 19:05.234
(man)
All hands,
man your battle stations!

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All hands,
man your battle stations!

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[sonar beeping]

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(man #1)
Range bearing 3--

19:12.301 --> 19:13.901
(man #2)
Range 1, 5.

19:14.002 --> 19:16.234
Three, two, five--
twenty miles and closing fast!

19:16.334 --> 19:18.001
(man #3)
Commence firing!

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[explosions]

19:21.301 --> 19:23.867
[machine gun fire]

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[explosions roaring]

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♪

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(narrator)
After the war,

19:31.135 --> 19:33.601
the technologically advanced
ship was mothballed

19:33.701 --> 19:36.601
and, by 1958,
was about to be scrapped

19:36.701 --> 19:38.934
when a grassroots North
Carolina fund-raising effort

19:39.034 --> 19:41.568
came to the rescue.

19:41.668 --> 19:43.634
The battleship arrived
at her new berth

19:43.735 --> 19:45.967
in Wilmington's
Cape Fear River

19:46.067 --> 19:48.334
in October of 1961

19:48.434 --> 19:50.568
and, on April 29th
of the next year,

19:50.668 --> 19:52.267
was dedicated
to the memory

19:52.368 --> 19:55.201
of more than 10,000
North Carolina servicemen

19:55.301 --> 19:58.700
who died serving their country
in the Second World War.

19:58.800 --> 20:00.400
[trumpet playing slowly]

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And below decks,

20:01.901 --> 20:04.568
the treasure hunt
was just getting underway.

20:04.668 --> 20:07.002
[harp plucks chord
as low note drones]

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(man)
You never know
what you're gonna find.

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When the ship
was transferred here in 1961,

20:12.434 --> 20:15.134
they came in, took off
what they wanted to take off,

20:15.234 --> 20:17.001
closed the doors,
put the dehumidification on,

20:17.101 --> 20:18.534
and walked away.

20:18.634 --> 20:20.401
And that's what we're
dealing with here,

20:20.501 --> 20:23.934
is not only the ship
and the installed equipment,

20:24.034 --> 20:27.667
but all our parts storerooms
are filled.

20:27.767 --> 20:29.701
For the technogeeks around,

20:29.801 --> 20:32.634
we have the little
vacuum tubes in the boxes.

20:32.735 --> 20:35.135
We've got storerooms
full of 'em.

20:35.235 --> 20:39.134
(woman)
When I came to work here,
I was only the second curator.

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And really, you know,
we are a ship.

20:41.501 --> 20:44.067
We are a museum, but we're
like a historic house.

20:44.167 --> 20:45.934
Think of it
as "This Old Ship."

20:46.034 --> 20:48.434
And I came on,
and all of a sudden

20:48.534 --> 20:50.701
it was so much fun
to go exploring!

20:50.801 --> 20:54.301
What's behind this door,
and what's behind that door?!

20:54.401 --> 20:56.368
(narrator)
You never really know.

20:56.468 --> 20:57.768
(woman)
Ah!

20:57.868 --> 21:00.101
(narrator)
It could be important
historical records,

21:00.201 --> 21:02.634
an old navigation instrument,

21:02.735 --> 21:06.768
a ship's gyro,
and who knows what else?

21:06.868 --> 21:09.801
A ladder descends
further down--heh--

21:09.901 --> 21:12.068
and doesn't look
all that inviting, unless,

21:12.168 --> 21:14.901
perhaps, you're waiting
for your 30 days in the brig

21:15.002 --> 21:17.767
to finish up,
and the walls are closing in.

21:17.867 --> 21:19.434
Whether it's a glimpse

21:19.534 --> 21:21.868
of a sailor's life
scribbled on a cell wall...

21:21.968 --> 21:24.068
(woman)
Thirty days--ooh-hoo-hoo-hoo!

21:24.168 --> 21:27.401
(narrator)
...or a few moments recreated
by the living-history crew,

21:27.501 --> 21:29.167
it's important to remember

21:29.267 --> 21:31.935
that life on board was,
in some ways,

21:32.035 --> 21:34.500
like life in a small,
unusually compact town.

21:34.600 --> 21:35.967
[indistinct talking]

21:36.067 --> 21:37.233
[shouts name]

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Yes!

21:38.600 --> 21:40.500
[laughter]

21:40.600 --> 21:42.134
[indistinct talking]

21:42.234 --> 21:44.201
(narrator)
The ship's records
and equipment,

21:44.301 --> 21:46.167
quite ordinary at the time,

21:46.267 --> 21:48.468
today prove endlessly
fascinating.

21:48.568 --> 21:50.700
[slow clarinet
and piano arrangement]

21:51.968 --> 21:54.368
(woman)
Well, we try to collect
and interpret

21:54.468 --> 21:56.368
items relating to daily life,

21:56.468 --> 21:59.401
but we also try to figure out
ways to connect,

21:59.501 --> 22:02.668
to make it relevant to someone
in the 21st century.

22:02.768 --> 22:04.634
Some of my favorite
recent discoveries

22:04.735 --> 22:07.234
have been papers relating
to the supply department,

22:07.334 --> 22:09.901
from gunnery down to foods.

22:10.002 --> 22:13.735
Christmas menu from 1944--
printed menu--

22:13.835 --> 22:17.401
Fourth of July dinner
in 1942.

22:17.501 --> 22:18.834
[strings enter]

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Uh, this is a range indicator

22:21.201 --> 22:23.534
in fair condition.

22:23.634 --> 22:27.501
The schedule of events
for the battle of Iwo Jima--

22:27.601 --> 22:31.334
very detailed plots
of different ships.

22:31.434 --> 22:34.534
We do have diaries
from the sailors.

22:34.634 --> 22:37.201
Gerry Kass, April of 1945--

22:37.301 --> 22:39.101
the day that the ship was hit

22:39.201 --> 22:40.967
and a number of men
were killed,

22:41.067 --> 22:42.835
and one of them
was his friend.

22:42.935 --> 22:45.900
We spend a lot of time
trying to show the daily life,

22:46.001 --> 22:47.634
and really what a nice place

22:47.735 --> 22:49.968
the battleship was to be
during World War II!

22:50.068 --> 22:53.067
But it was a war,
and so you find this material

22:53.167 --> 22:55.935
and it just really
touches your heart.

22:56.035 --> 22:59.701
(narrator)
Visitors to the 21st-century
USS North Carolina

22:59.801 --> 23:01.735
will be astonished
at the condition

23:01.835 --> 23:04.401
of the ship
and its contents--

23:04.501 --> 23:06.433
a floating city
that once housed

23:06.533 --> 23:10.334
2,339 people.

23:10.434 --> 23:12.201
But what of the future?

23:12.301 --> 23:14.167
Yes, believe it or not,

23:14.267 --> 23:16.601
the Navy could call
the North Carolina

23:16.701 --> 23:20.368
back into service,
which isn't likely.

23:20.468 --> 23:23.401
Meanwhile, another vessel
named USS North Carolina

23:23.501 --> 23:25.534
has taken to the waves--

23:25.634 --> 23:27.534
a fast-attack
nuclear submarine,

23:27.634 --> 23:30.267
the latest of a handful
of American vessels

23:30.368 --> 23:32.668
to carry the name
of our state.

23:32.768 --> 23:35.468
(man over P.A.)
The flag of the secretary
of the Navy

23:35.568 --> 23:37.334
is flying
over USS North Carolina.

23:37.434 --> 23:40.568
(Scheu)
To put it in perspective,
the last time a ship

23:40.668 --> 23:42.467
named "North Carolina"
was commissioned

23:42.567 --> 23:44.534
was April 9th of 1941,

23:44.634 --> 23:48.501
and it was commissioned
in New York City and not here.

23:48.601 --> 23:50.834
And in your life--
the rest of our lifetimes,

23:50.934 --> 23:52.900
you will probably
never see another ship

23:53.001 --> 23:55.167
named USS North Carolina

23:55.267 --> 23:58.068
commissioned
or even named.

23:58.168 --> 24:01.501
(narrator) Yet, the USS North
Carolina Battleship Memorial

24:01.601 --> 24:03.401
no doubt will endure,

24:03.501 --> 24:06.633
as long as visitors
can walk her teak decks,

24:06.734 --> 24:08.501
gaze at the bristling guns,

24:08.601 --> 24:11.901
and, maybe, even pretend,
if but for a moment,

24:12.002 --> 24:14.067
that they're fighting
an enemy aircraft

24:14.167 --> 24:17.301
diving on the ship
from out of the sun

24:17.401 --> 24:20.401
and, as long as dedicated
curators like Kim

24:20.501 --> 24:23.368
still get excited about their
below-decks detective work...

24:23.468 --> 24:25.701
Isn't this cool?!
Never been in here!

24:25.801 --> 24:27.701
(narrator)
...heh--finding and exhibiting

24:27.801 --> 24:29.868
the artifacts
from the war years

24:29.968 --> 24:33.534
that are yet to discovered
in the ship's great basement.

24:33.634 --> 24:36.266
[horns and strings hold chord]

24:36.367 --> 24:38.800
♪

24:40.201 --> 24:42.867
[silence]

24:45.201 --> 24:47.034
[birds singing]

24:47.134 --> 24:49.100
[camera shutter clicking]

24:50.934 --> 24:53.167
[lens mechanism clacking]

24:53.267 --> 24:55.434
(Fennema)
I don't sell photographs, um--

24:55.534 --> 24:57.434
framed things like that.

24:57.534 --> 24:59.434
I do bookmarks, note cards,

24:59.534 --> 25:02.101
magnets, um, posters,

25:02.201 --> 25:05.634
whatever is, uh--
I feel like doin' at the time,

25:05.735 --> 25:08.900
and I'm constantly comin' up
with new things, um.

25:10.168 --> 25:13.534
I like to put somethin'
that'll give people a smile.

25:13.634 --> 25:15.768
When they go to a place
on vacation,

25:15.868 --> 25:19.835
I try to think of them
as a tourist like I am,

25:19.935 --> 25:23.633
and what would I want
if I went to a place?

25:24.900 --> 25:27.334
I like history
and, um, nature,

25:27.434 --> 25:30.501
since I'm a biologist
by schooling, um,

25:30.601 --> 25:33.267
animals, um, just anything
that's interesting,

25:33.368 --> 25:35.001
and most everything
is interesting,

25:35.101 --> 25:38.001
so it's fair game
for the camera.

25:39.534 --> 25:42.601
Um, but I've focused
my photography on the coast.

25:42.701 --> 25:46.267
That's where I live, and it's
the most accessible to me,

25:46.368 --> 25:48.067
especially these days, uh.

25:48.167 --> 25:50.601
And, uh, it's where
my customers are,

25:50.701 --> 25:54.735
and I'll go to photograph
whenever I go to my customers.

25:54.835 --> 25:56.668
I'll deliver,
and we'll have lunch

25:56.768 --> 25:58.534
and sit down
and just talk

25:58.634 --> 26:00.967
about what they need
and any ideas,

26:01.067 --> 26:02.834
and then I'll
go shoot something

26:02.934 --> 26:04.701
if they have
something in mind.

26:04.801 --> 26:06.868
And then I'll usually
take a vacation

26:06.968 --> 26:09.134
once a year
in the wintertime in February

26:09.234 --> 26:11.201
and I'll go
to the Outer Banks

26:11.301 --> 26:13.568
when all the migratory
birds are there

26:13.668 --> 26:15.934
and there's no people--heh!

26:17.468 --> 26:20.735
Taking pictures is a very small
part of what I do anymore.

26:20.835 --> 26:23.401
I'm at the computer
a lot of the time,

26:23.501 --> 26:26.234
printing, assembling,
and that's what I like to do,

26:26.334 --> 26:28.101
is give people
something to read.

26:28.201 --> 26:30.401
Maybe they'll learn something
on the back of it

26:30.501 --> 26:32.467
but smile when
they see the picture.

26:32.567 --> 26:35.300
[birds singing]

26:37.501 --> 26:39.667
[distant bird chirping]

26:48.668 --> 26:51.067
[mellow mandolin
and bass arrangement]

26:51.167 --> 27:06.101
♪

27:06.201 --> 27:20.734
♪

27:20.834 --> 27:24.601
♪

27:24.701 --> 27:27.601
Caption Editors
Will Halman & Lauren Gardner

27:27.701 --> 27:31.001
Caption Perfect, Inc.
www.CaptionPerfect.com

27:31.101 --> 27:33.867
♪

27:36.935 --> 27:39.568
(male announcer)
To subscribe
to "Our State" magazine,

27:39.668 --> 27:43.001
visit the Web site
www.ourstate.com or call...

27:48.034 --> 27:50.501
[gentle piano melody]

27:50.601 --> 27:54.167
(announcer)
From the time BB&T
opened its doors in 1872

27:54.267 --> 27:56.434
in the town of Wilson,

27:56.534 --> 27:59.167
we've supported the people and
communities of North Carolina

27:59.267 --> 28:02.568
from the Outer Banks
to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

28:02.668 --> 28:05.767
We've been in business
for 136 years,

28:05.867 --> 28:07.467
making us
the oldest bank

28:07.567 --> 28:08.934
in North Carolina.

28:09.034 --> 28:10.800
We're proud
of this distinction,

28:10.900 --> 28:12.434
and we're also very proud

28:12.534 --> 28:14.734
to provide funding
for "Our State."

28:14.834 --> 28:16.700
♪

28:17.968 --> 28:20.001
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28:20.101 --> 28:21.500
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