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What a difference a few decades make! The images of New York City were taken in 1970 (Bernard Gotfryd, Library of Congress) and in 2018 by Afif Ramdhasuma (from pexels.com). Earth Day has been celebrated on April 22 since it was established through grassroots efforts in 1970. It was a response to increasing concerns caused by smog (intense air pollution caused mainly by exhaust fumes), Great Lakes at risk of dying from pesticide runoff and waste dumping, and rivers that caught on fire (the Cuyahoga River in Ohio famously caught fire in June of 1969). It was also the year when monumental legislation was enacted to address all kinds of environmental concerns. ...read more
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If it’s true, as they say, that seeing is believing, then we at Mast Store would like to propose another entry to your quip collection: Doing is moving. “Doing” not only requires movement - “doing” moves you both physically and emotionally. ...read more
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What is a library? It’s a big building with lots of books in it. But wait, it’s so much more. The library is a gateway to your wildest dreams, a place to learn, a place to imagine, a place to make friends. Today’s libraries are repositories of books, but they also are places to get help to learn to read or improve your reading, to improve your math skills, to listen to a performance by a string quartet, to watch a movie, to refine your crafting skills, and to gather with fellow writers. Yes, libraries are SO much more. ...read more
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... Our favorite foods! Food is universal because everybody’s got ta eat! And the last two months of the year are filled with more than their fair share of family meals, work gatherings, special outings to favorite restaurants, tins filled with homemade cookies and fudge, and the anticipation of food traditions handed down from generation to generation ...read more
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Even before we bought the Mast General Store, we were taken by the beauty of Valle Crucis. We’ve heard people describe the drive out Broadstone Road as traveling through a time portal. In the 1970s, fields in the river bottoms would be filled with tobacco, cabbage, or high with hay to feed cattle that were grazing in the summer pasture. ...read more
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The lucky few who have seen the Earth from a different perspective – astronauts - all echo the same viewpoint upon their return. Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut and the first human to go to space, commented, “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it.”
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In late September 2013, I visited the Outer Banks of North Carolina. One of the highlights of the trip was a stop at Bodie Lighthouse on the Oregon Inlet in Nags Head, NC. It had recently undergone major renovations that finished at the end of March 2013. Luckily for me, it was now open for the public to explore the interior of the lighthouse!
A wonderful park ranger gave a thorough tour, starting with a lesson on how to pronounce Bodie. I, like many others pronounced it with a long “o” but it’s actually pronounced body, named after the Body family who once lived on the land where the lighthouse now stands. A bit of eerie folklore the ranger shared with me: The lighthouse is rumored to have been named from after the bodies that would wash up on shore. Furthermore, this very same inlet is part of the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
There’s 214 steps up the spiral staircase to the top and it’s essential to take breaks because that’s a lot of steps with no air conditioning! At the top, we stopped to view the first-order Fresnel lens, named after and developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel and invented exclusively for lighthouses. A Fresnel lens makes light visible over great distances. It’s one of two first-order Fresnel lenses still in use in North Carolina. The other resides in Currituck Lighthouse, a twin to the Bodie Lighthouse, only without paint.
There’s a wonderful gift shop filled with lots of cool gifts and treasures. The ranger station and gift shop are housed in the old lighthouse keeper’s quarters. During my time there are many trails to explore around the lighthouse, many have boardwalks over the low marsh areas. The park ranger gave caution on the trails due to that time of year - usually the summer - being snaky. I highly recommend a stop if you’re visiting the Outer Banks!
- Heather, Mast Store Home Office
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