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Elon Gallery { 9 images } Created 29 Jan 2018

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  • While away from his day job as an engineer for automotive giant Volvo, Will Oakley is able to focus on a different mode of transportation. Oakley spends his spare time carefully cutting, assembling and lacquering strips of wood into custom boats in the shop behind his Greensboro, N.C. home. Upon completion of a project, Will always enjoys testing his new vessel (be it a canoe or kayak) in one of the local Greensboro lakes, as he did here in Lake Brandt on Saturday, April 23, 2014, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • The sound is less ping and tinkle than clickety-clack, and you’ll see the crowd of smiling, toe-tapping listeners before you see percussionist Abby Roach, or Abby the Spoon Lady — one-named, like Cher — on the sidewalk, rhythmically tapping a pair of steel spoons against her palms, fingers, thighs, and forearms. Originally from Kansas, Abby taught herself to play spoons while riding boxcars across the country before accidentally (“I took the wrong train,” she explains) landing in Asheville four years ago. Between sets, she greases her hands and spoon handles with a salve concocted specially for her skill set, and instruments that come from a kitchen drawer. Admirers approach, and there’s the ping! as Abby hits the oversized bell at her foot: another buck for the buskers.<br />
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Photographed, Friday, May 5, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • WE LIVE HERE: Ian Snider, 34, issues continuous, gentle commands to Jim, a Suffolk Punch work horse who can pull a 3,000-pound load. “I have empathy for my working partner,” Snider says, “which you don’t have with a tractor.” Owner of Mountain Works Sustainable Development, Snider is a forester who uses horse-power rather than extraction machinery, a method important in situations like this one, a mountainside in the small town of Creston, North Carolina selectively cleared for a bird habitat. He’s teaching this “tool that’s still important to keep in the toolbox for modern forestry,” to students at Appalachian State University.<br />
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Photograpphed, Monday, January 9, 2017, in Creston,, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
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  • Pilot Bill Wilkerson  is helping to rebuild an iconic DC-3 airplane at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. <br />
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Photographed, Tuesday, November 21, 2017, in Spencer, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals<br />
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Pilot Bill Wilkerson of Pleasant Garden, North Carolina was among the first black pilots in the country. Wilkerson flew 15 years for Piedmont Airlines, which became a part of US Airways in 1989. In 1980, he became the second black person to earn the rank of captain with the company. The retired pilot still wears his captains’ uniform while he gives tours at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.<br />
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Wilkerson grew up in the projects of Knoxville, Tennessee with his two other siblings and his single mother, who worked as a domestic. She gave her kids the books she received from her clients.<br />
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Wilkerson’s mother purchased “The Library of Universal Knowledge” for her children and young Bill read the chapter called “How to Fly.” The boy ‘flew around the world’ through the articles inside National Geographic and Reader’s Digest. He was so intrigued, he engulfed himself in model airplanes and begged his mother for flying lessons. She initially refused, so Wilkerson and his friend paid $5 for a flying lesson at the Knoxville airport. His mother eventually gave in, and by the time he was 16 years old, Wilkerson was in flight school. Five years later, he obtained his pilot’s license.<br />
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Wilkerson enlisted in the Air Force and served as a mechanic until 1971. Three years later he got the job at Piedmont. While Piedmont was jokingly called the “puddle jumper” airline, Wilkerson was proud to work as one of the first and few black pilots in the industry. He gained much attention as one of the few black men in uniform.<br />
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Wilkerson logged more than 17,000 hours as a pilot for Piedmont. He was finally able to take his family to the places he’d only seen in the National Geographic magazine as a child. In 2011, he was in
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  • Duke guard Quinn Cook (2) walks dejectedly off the court after losing 72 to 63 to Virginia in the 61st annual Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Championships on Sunday, March 16, 2014, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC. (AP Photo/Burlington Times-News, Scott Muthersbaugh)
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  • 7/24/13 - Oziah Wright, 6, rides his bicycle down Climax Street in Graham, N.C. on the afternoon of Wednesday, July 24, 2013. When asked if he had a superhero name, he said that he refers to himself as "Cyclon." (AP Photo/Burlington Times-News, Scott Muthersbaugh)
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  • Firefighters from E.M. Holt and Mt. Hope fire departments <br />
battle a blaze at 3221 Porter Sharpe Road in Alamance, N.C. Tuesday, November 13, 2012. The thirty-year-old building which housed a private welding shop was a total loss.
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