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Locals experience A Taste of Scotia Village
LAURINBURG — Scotia Village recently opened its doors to showcase renovations to the retirement community’s dining facilities, giving residents expanded dining options and a new restaurant-style experience. The renovations transformed the former bar into PUB ‘88, a cozy Scottish pub where residents can enjoy drinks and small plates,...
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Why are the elephants at the North Carolina Zoo orange?
ASHEBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — If you’ve ever taken a trip to the North Carolina Zoo, you may be questioning the unusual color of the elephants. In this week’s Zoo Filez, FOX8’s Shannon Smith learns how the zoo’s elephants get their unique orange color.
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Two Man Links at Pinehurst: Fathers, Sons, and the Cradle of American Golf
There is a spot on the main campus at Pinehurst where you can stand and see most of American golf history at once. The 18th green of No. 2 is behind you — the one where Payne Stewart holed the putt in 1999. The first tee of No. 4 is a few paces away. Below the clubhouse, The Cradle's nine little holes tumble across the same ground where the first golf at Pinehurst was laid out in 1898. Maniac Hill, one of the game's first practice ranges, stretches out to the side. And in the middle of all of it sits a building that didn't exist two years ago: the Titleist Shop at Pinehurst.
Raleigh News & Observer
Doo-wop legend who sang ‘Money Honey,' other R&B hits, to get NC marker
Clyde McPhatter, a falsetto-voiced pioneer of early rock-and-roll, who launched his highly influential but short career in the churches of Durham, will soon grace an North Carolina historic marker on the streets where he first learned to sing. Born in 1932, McPhatter grew up in a Baptist family in Durham’s Hayti neighborhood, where he sang solos in the choir at his preacher father’s church, Mount Cavalry Baptist, but he soon moved to New York, formed a gospel group based in Harlem — The Mount Lebanon Singers. Like many crooners of his era, McPhatter followed the powerful draw of secular music, and he lent his voice to the early 1950s blend of rhythm and blues. This combination of gospel soulfulness and free-spirited, sexually charged energy led the country into a new rock and roll era. A young Ernie Barnes would recall sneaking into the segregated Durham Armory to get a glimpse of McPhatter with his doo-wop Dominoes, describing the scene he saw on the dance floor, so bold for the era it seemed sinful, but not so audacious he didn’t move along. “What I observed was the no inhibition, no self-consciousness or rigidity, just fluid movement while the music punctuated every