Coastal Carolina Insider Shares Sweet Slices of Down East Life
“MY HEART WILL ALWAYS BE IN CAROLINA” NOVEMBER OVERVIEW
Airs Sundays, at 1 PM, on UNC-TV

This month UNC-TV’s newest show celebrating slices of Carolina life, My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina, features stories about the fascinating people, places and things found along eastern North Carolina’s interesting outposts and inlets. Coastal Production Company, of Wanchese, NC, has produced nearly 100 different My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina programs since 2000. Segments from these programs comprise the new, hour-long versions airing Sunday afternoons, at 1, on UNC-TV.

Kicking off the month, Sunday, November 2, at 1 PM, the 10-episode series spotlights the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park and Eco Center in Scotland Neck, NC—home to the world’s largest collection of waterfowl including many rare and endangered species.

Enjoy more enlightening and inspiring shows during November’s remaining Sunday afternoons. Tour the nation’s first weather service office in Cape Hatteras on November 9. Discover the Museum of the Albemarle in Elizabeth City on November 16; visit the wild horses of Corolla in Currituck Countyon November 23; and hang-glide Jockey’s Ridge in Nags Head on November 30.

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.

Director of videography 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. His photography and editing skills have been recognized with a Peabody Award and a New York Film Festival Gold Award.

See My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina Sunday afternoons, at 1. For more information, visit  www.unctv.org/pressroom or www.obxtv.com/index.html.

For more information about My Heart Will Always Be in Carolina 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.