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  • There were many passions — baseball, public policy — that Jake Ybarra turned his attention to, but he always returned to music. Now, the South Carolinian has released his first full-length album, Something in the Water.
  • Sam Burchfield is currently touring for his second album Scoundrel, but in an interview with The Sound, he played two, stripped-down versions of songs from his next album.
  • Hannah Crafts wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative, an epic-like story of a slave's life in the South and eventual escape to the North.
  • Local lore didn't agree on what the ship was used for. Was it dormitory for the WPA? A military ship converted to a barge? Or used a target practice during WWII?
  • Unearthed from the waters of the New River in the 1960s, the canoe is made from a single cypress log. According to its rings, the tree was 200 years old at the time of its harvesting.
  • The long leaf pine is used to harvest pine tar, pitch and turpentine. Once abundant in ENC, the long leaf pine's habitat has moved south, in part due to a lack of knowledge of forest management.
  • Invented by Richard Jordan Gatling of Murfreesboro, N.C., the Gatling gun is the earliest iteration of the modern machine gun.
  • Thirty years before the Wrights took flight at Kitty Hawk, an inventor in Murfreesboro, N.C., attempted his first flight off the top of a cotton gin.
  • The Cowan Musuem is home to all sorts of nifty inventions, including a 7-in-1 kitchen tool. But, the museum's curators may need to reevaluate what the device actually is.
  • The Confederate ironclad ship CSS Neuse was built to protect Goldsboro and deter Union troops from moving inland, but it hardly saw battle.
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