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North Carolina History Project Encyclopedia
NorthCarolinahistory.org features an edited, evolving, and comprehensive encyclopedia of the Tar Heel state. It has been produced for educational and research purposes. All entries are non-polemical, and new entries are frequently added.
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Featured Entry
Considered by some critics to be an Ernest Hemingway spinoff,
Robert Ruark’s
The Old Man and the Boy (1953) is the North Carolina writer’s most famous work. In it, he remembers his North Carolina boyhood and the life lessons learned from his maternal grandfather
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