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2002 Season
 Thomas C. Parramore (1932-2004) taught history at Meredith College in Raleigh and was author of numerous books, including Norfolk: The First Four Centuries.
Southampton County, Virginia (1978)
Carolina Quest (1978)
Express Lanes and Country Roads: The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1920-1970 (1983)
Norfolk: The First Four Centuries (2000 - 2002)
Triumph at Kitty Hawk : the Wright brothers and powered flight
First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation (2002)
From First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation published by The University of North Carolina Press
The Conjurer's Decree
No grander quest has inspired mankind, no greater single achievement blessed its efforts, than the ability of humans to fly. The twentieth century, for all its cruelty and suffering, stands forth in the annals of history for its conquest of powered flight, the glory, indeed, of the Second Millennium. Well before the century ended, flight rewove the fabric of human life, altered our perceptions of time and space, and galvanized and exalted our faith and self-confidence in what is to come.
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