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by Horton, Emily S. Clay Aiken 1978- by Emily Horton, 2012; Kelly Agan, 2014, 2015. NC Government & Heritage Library Related Entries: Fantasia Barrino; Kellie Pickler; Chris Daughtry; Bucky Covington; [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Franke, Matthew. Tori Amos is a singer, songwriter, pianist, and producer best known for her confessional lyrics and piano-based alternative rock music style. She was born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963 in [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Horton, Emily S. Fantasia Barrino June 30, 1984- by Emily Horton NC Government & Heritage Library, 2016. Related Entries: Clay Aiken; Kellie Pickler; Chris Daughtry; Bucky Covington; Scotty McCreery; [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Jones, H. G. Beards of two North Carolinians attracted worldwide attention during their lifetimes. Sam G. Brinkley (1850-1929), a schoolteacher at Magnetic Hill (renamed Buladean) in Mitchell County, had facial [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Chautauqua was an adult educational program established in 1874 by leaders of the Methodist Episcopal church on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, N.Y. From this base, programs spread to many parts of [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Horton, Emily S. Bucky Covington 1977- by Emily Horton NC Government & Heritage Library, 2012. Related Entries: Clay Aiken; Fantasia Barrino; Kellie Pickler; Chris Daughtry; Scotty McCreery; Anoop [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Childs, T. Mike, Agan, Kelly. The Dare Stones By T. Mike Childs (2013) and Kelly Agan (2019), Government & Heritage Library Listen to this entry Download MP3 audio The Dare Stones are a series of forty-eight rocks [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Horton, Emily S. Chris Daughtry 1979- by Emily Horton NC Government & Heritage Library, 2012. Related Entries: Clay Aiken; Fantasia Barrino; Kellie Pickler; Bucky Covington; Scotty McCreery; Anoop [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Horton, Emily S. Desai, Anoop 1986- by Emily HortonNC Government & Heritage Library, 2012. Related Entries: Clay Aiken; Fantasia Barrino; Kellie Pickler; Chris Daughtry; Bucky [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Powell, William S. George and Jacob Donner, western immigrants for whom the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California was named, were born in Rowan County, probably in the part that is now southern [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Hardy, Martha Nell. Tamsen Eustis Donner, western immigrant, was born in Newburyport, Mass., the daughter of William and Tamsen Eustis, respected and well-to-do members of that community. Young Tamsen was encouraged to [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Franke, Matthew. Roberta Flack is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist renowned for her smooth, "velvety" voice. Born in Black Mountain in Buncombe County on February 10, 1937, she was one of four [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Childs, T. Mike. Gibbons was born Bertha Kaye Batts in Nash county, N.C. on May 5, 1960. She had a poor and troubled childhood from which she has drawn liberally to create her novels. She grew up in a tin-roofed [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Childs, T. Mike. Heidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum By T. Mike Childs NC Government & Heritage Library, 2013. 2008–September 28, 2011 See also: Slow Poke the Possum, Opossums Heidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Holloman, Mollee. Is the Outer Banks Series Fact or Fiction? Geographically Speaking ... By Mollee Holloman, 2021 See also: Is the Outer Banks Series Fact or Fiction, [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Holloman, Mollee. Is the Outer Banks Series Fact or Fiction? Culturally Speaking ...  By Mollee Holloman, 2021 See also: Is the Outer Banks Series Fact or Fiction, Historically [...] (from NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Holloman, Mollee. Is the Outer Banks Series Fact or Fiction? Historically Speaking ... By Mollee Holloman, 2021 See also: Is the Outer Banks Series Fact or Fiction, Geographically Speaking?,and Is the Outer [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Eckard, Max. Jermain Lamar Cole, better known by his stage name, J. Cole, is a Grammy-nominated rapper, singer and producer from Fayetteville, NC. In 2009, he became the first artist to be signed to Jay-Z's Roc [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Smith, Chris T. Jovian was a Coquerel’s sifaka (a species of lemur) chosen to star in the title role of the popular PBS children's television series Zoboomafoo, which began airing in 1999. Jovian was born April 10, [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Horton, Emily S. Scotty McCreery 1993- by Emily Horton NC Government & Heritage Library, 2012. Related Entries: Clay Aiken; Fantasia Barrino; Kellie Pickler; Chris Daughtry; Bucky Covington; Anoop [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Umfleet, LeRae. Millie-Christine McKoy by LeRae Umfleet, 2010 Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and [...] (from Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and History.)

by Powell, William S. Edward Roscoe Murrow, news broadcaster and government official, originally named Egbert, was born near Centre Quaker Meetinghouse in Guilford County on Polecat Creek, the youngest of three sons of [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Horton, Emily S. Kellie Pickler 1986- by Emily Horton NC Government & Heritage Library, 2013. Related Entries: Clay Aiken; Fantasia Barrino; Chris Daughtry; Bucky Covington; Scotty McCreery; Anoop [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Agan, Kelly. The local human inhabitants call Clay County's Brasstown the “Opossum Capital of the World.” While this claim may be difficult to prove, the town has become known internationally from news [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Wells, Mike "Lightnin'". The recording industry and record labels in North Carolina, beginning in the 1930s, featured an impressive array of talented producers and helped gain exposure for North Carolina musicians and [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wells, Mike "Lightnin'". Recording Industry by Michael L. Wells, 2006 See also: Bluegrass Music; Blues; Country Music; Gospel Music; Old-Time String Band Music; Rock Music. Part i: Introduction; Part ii: [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Wells, Mike "Lightnin'". Recording Industry by Michael L. Wells, 2006 See also: Bluegrass Music; Blues; Country Music; Gospel Music; Old-Time String Band Music; Rock Music. Part i: Introduction; Part ii: [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Recording Industry by Michael L. Wells, 2006 See also: Bluegrass Music; Blues; Country Music; Gospel Music; Old-Time String Band Music; Rock Music. Part i: Introduction; Part ii: North [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by . Recording Industry by Michael L. Wells, 2006 See also: Bluegrass Music; Blues; Country Music; Gospel Music; Old-Time String Band Music; Rock Music. Part i: Introduction; Part ii: [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Powell, William S. Joseph Banks Rhine, psychologist, parapsychologist, and university professor, was born in Waterloo, Pa., the son of Samuel Ellis and Elizabeth Ellen Vaughan Rhine. He spent a part of his youth in [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Menconi, David. Rock music in North Carolina has always been marked by a "do-it-yourself" streak-meaning that some of the state's most notable musicians have practiced their craft while holding down day jobs. In [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Childs, T. Mike. Slow Poke the Possum By T. Mike Childs and Kelly Agan, 2012, 2019; SLNC Government & Heritage Library, May 2023 See also: Heidi the Cross-Eyed Opossum; Possum [...] (from Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina.)

by Horton, Emily S. James Taylor 1948- by Emily Horton NC Government & Heritage Library, 2012. Singer-songwriter James Taylor was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1948 to Gertrude and Isaac Taylor. [...] (from NCpedia.)

by McKown, Harry W., Jr. Late on the night of March 10, 1948, a fire started in a kitchen of the main building of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Spreading rapidly through a dumbwaiter shaft, flames reached [...] (from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries.)

by Gaddis, Elijah. The June German once occupied a prominent place in the cultural life of eastern North Carolina. These yearly dances began in the late nineteenth century as a yearly diversion for the wealthy elites [...] (from NCpedia.)

by Anderson, Jean B. By Elizabeth A. Fenn, Peter H. Wood, Harry L. Watson, Thomas H. Clayton, Sydney Nathans, Thomas C. Parramore, and Jean B. Anderson; Maps by Mark Anderson Moore. Edited by Joe A. Mobley. [...] (from The Way We Lived in North Carolina, NC Office of Archives and History and UNC Press.)

by Powell, William S. Wallpaper, first known as "wall hanging," appeared in the New England colonies by 1700 and was available in the South by the 1740s. In 1758 plans were made to establish a new capital for North [...] (from Encyclopedia of North Carolina, University of North Carolina Press.)

by Simpson, Marcus B., Jr. Thomas D. (Big Tom) Wilson, legendary hunter and mountain guide, was born at the family home on the Toe River in Yancey County, a region at that time of almost unbroken wilderness in the lofty Black [...] (from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, University of North Carolina Press.)