Coastal Carolina Insider Shares Sweet Slices of Down East Life
UNC-TV PRESENTS MY HEART WILL ALWAYS BE IN CAROLINA
Series Premieres Sunday, Sept. 3, at 1 PM

Discover the fascinating people, places and things found along eastern North Carolina’s interesting outposts and inlets on My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina. In the UNC-TV statewide premiere episode, Sunday, September 3, at 1 PM, viewers will enjoy an award-winning segment about a trip on the sailing ship Elizabeth II, Sailing the Elizabeth II—From Manteo to Columbia. This episode also features the North Carolina Watermelon Festival—Murfreesboro and North Carolina Baseball Museum—Wilson.

Other action-packed highlights in coming episodes include an interview with America’s oldest living lighthouse keeper, Captain Wayland Baum, now 102 years of age; as well as stories about all the Outer Banks Lighthouses; Living History Days in the town of Plymouth and on Roanoke Island; tours of the North Carolina Baseball Museum in Wilson and the Jeffcoat Museum in Murfreesboro; visits to Columbia, Jackson, and Hertord; the Perquimans County Farm tour and much more.

Ken Mann, president of Coastal Production Company, hosts the program and serves as its executive director. Born and raised in northeastern North Carolina, Mann actively participates in the community and has received “The Order of the Long Leaf Pine,” one of North Carolina’s highest awards. A composer and musician, Mann’s My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina theme appears on his album Songs and Legends of the Outer Banks. Mann co-wrote the song, along with Billy Edd Wheeler, Paul Craft and the late guitar legend Chet Atkins.

The show’s award-winning videographer, Bob Boyer, retired to North Carolina in 1999 after four decades of network and local television news, documentary and production experience, most recently with NBC in Washington DC. In recognition of his photography and editing skills, Boyer numbers a Peabody Award and New York Film Festival Gold Award among his many accolades.

Since 2000, Coastal Production Company, based in Wanchese, has produced over 75 unique My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina programs for local coastal television. Segments from these programs comprise this new, hour-long weekly series. You can find more information about My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina online at www.obxtv.com.

See My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina Sunday afternoons at 1, starting September 3, on UNC-TV.

For more information about this series and other UNC-TV programming, visit UNC-TV online at www.unctv.org. UNC-TV’s 11 stations comprise North Carolina’s only statewide television network, made possible through a unique partnership of public investment and private support. UNC-TV is committed to producing and broadcasting programs for and about North Carolina, making it the state’s most important source of information about North Carolina.

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