UNC-TV ONLINE: Our State: Episode 302

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Waterway Tales - Love Valley - Doll Lady - Featured Video Clip -If You Want To Go

Waterway Tales

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Join Bland Simpson for timeless tales of the Intracoastal Waterway. We’ll stop at legendary Money Island to search for buried plunder and ghostly Brunswick Town that was once a Confederate fort and naval stores port. In Southport, we’ll stroll through a local graveyard to which residents ran in terror during the 1898 earthquake. Then we’ll climb the Pilot’s Tower that barely withstood the ravages of Hurricane Hazel in 1954. On Battery Island, we’ll discover the teeming ibis that make their annual nests there, and visit the Oak Island and Price’s Creek lighthouses. Finally, we’ll bid farewell to the old Sunset Beach pontoon bridge soon to be replaced by a new structure.

Love Valley

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Along the Brushy Mountains in northwest Iredell County in a blink of a town, you’ll walk plank sidewalks that line the rustic main street and find horses tied to a hitching rail in front of the General Store before a trip to the farrier. Next we’re in Love Valley! Epitomizing the Old West, founder Andy Barker envisioned a religious-based community where everybody looked after each other. He founded his town over fifty years ago and today it draws horse lovers from all over the country for the pristine trails, rodeos and holiday events. Meet the man behind this old west town and tour his “Cowboy Capital of North Carolina”.

Doll Lady

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Cornhusk doll making finds its roots in a craft Native American children passed on to colonial children. Pam Earp has fashioned these dolls for nearly thirty years. She shares this long-standing tradition not only with her mother and daughter, but also by apprenticing girls each year at the state fair’s Village of Yesteryear. Join this unique artist on her trip to the open-air market for husks, to the final touches on a finished doll and see how she’s preserving this Carolina craft through generational learning.