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	Oct. 6 - Grandfather's Summit invites a trip to the North Carolina mountains.
	October 2 - Tobacco auctions were much anticipated events for farmers in tobacco's heyday, as here in 1948.
	September 25 - Football season for the N.C. Agricultural & Mechanical College (now N.C. State University), circa 1899.
	September 18 - Remembering 1954's Hurricane. Hurricane season continues through November.
	September 11 - Labor Day is here. Workers at Pilot Mountain Mills in 1945.
	September 4 - The North Carolina Symphony String section, circa 1950s. September is National Classical Music Month.
	August 28 - Summer beach trips are winding down, but bathers from 1945 are shown here at play.
	August 21 - Durham Life Insurance women's basketball team, circa 1950s, foretold a place for the WNBA. Many WNBA players are on hiatus for the Summer Olympics.
	August 14 - Summer vacation means making new friends, circa 1951.
	August 7 - Equestrian events are Olympics favorites, and are shown enjoyed here in 1939.
	July 31 - Cornfields are still abundant in North Carolina and look much the same as here in 1938.
	July 24 - National Outdoors Month is great for fishing, as seen here in 1938.
	July 17 - Celebrate National Watermelon Month in July; here is a treat at Methodist Orphanage in 1951.
	July 10 - July is National Bikini Month, here's a style from 1945.
	July 3 - Celebrate Independence Day and National Ice Cream Month in July, circa 1941.
	June 30 - Plan a picnic for July 4th. Two boys dine outside in 1944.
	June 23 - Bridesmaids for Mary Evans in 1913. June weddings remain popular.
	June 15 - Relaxing at Carolina Beach in 1945.
	June 9 - Father's Day is for grandpa too, as is this moment from the 1940s.
	June 2 - Boys ponder what to do when school is out in 1938.
	May 26 - Battleship North Carolina with crew - a Memorial Day memory from World War II.
	May 19 - Setting out tobacco in the spring of 1945.
	May 12 - Fancy bands play for occasions like the prom, or this dance in 1939.
	May 5 - Mountain stream fishing is a great spring pastime. This scene is from 1938.
	Apr. 28 - A Mother's Day tribute Mrs. Morgan J. Polk and children from 1939.
	Apr. 21 - Outdoor camping is fun for these Boy Scouts at Crabtree Creek in 1943.
	Apr. 14 - Spring is a good time for golf, as for this ladies on the links in 1939.
	Apr. 7 - Raleigh Baseball Team of the early 1900s
	Mar. 31 - In 1913, Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick, 18, of Henderson, became the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She weighed 80 pounds.
	Mar. 24 - In October 1774, women of Edenton gathered for the "Edenton Tea Party" and vowed not to drink tea from England.
	Mar. 16 - Easter and little girls and pretty dresses seem to go together, 1910s.
	Mar. 9 - Methodist Orphanage Girls' Basketball Team, 1952.
	Mar. 3 - Snowy Scene in Hamlet, North Carolina, 1912.
	Feb. 25 - Meeting at NC Mutual Provident Association, now NC Mutual Life Insurance Company: Dr. A. M. Moore, J. M. Avery, John Merrick, and C. C. Spaulding, 1908.
	Feb. 18 - Harriet Jacobs Authored Her Tale of Escape from Slavery in "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" in 1862.
	Feb. 11 - Couples Chatting at Methodist Orphanage, 1951.
	Feb. 4 - Ice & Snow-laden tree collapses on car, 1960.
	Jan. 28 - Methodist Orphanage Boys' Basketball Team, 1952.
	Jan. 21 - Pullen Park in the snow, 1938.
	Jan. 14 - Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., in Durham, 1958.
	Jan. 7 - Methodist Orphanage couple may reflect on old and new year, 1952.
	Dec. 30 - The State Capitol in the snow, 1935.