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Laura moved from Chattanooga to Chapel Hill in 2013 to join WUNC as a web producer. She graduated from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in the spring of 2012 and has created radio and multimedia stories for a variety of outlets, including Marketplace, Prairie Public, and Maine Public Broadcasting. When she's not out hunting stories, you can usually find her playing the fiddle.

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Why People Freak Out When They See A Crankie

Credit Laura Candler

Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle singing the ballad 'Lord Bateman' with a crankie they made.

By Laura Candler

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Anna and Elizabeth play music and tell the story of their crankies.

When traditional Appalachian musician Anna Roberts-Gevalt first showed ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle a crankie, Elizabeth was speechless.

“I really freaked out,” LaPrelle said. She was astounded not only because she had never seen one before, but also because it was such a powerful tool for storytelling.

12:42 pm

Mon May 20, 2013

Mad Men Mondays: Episode 8 Analyzed By Duke's Hartman Center

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Episode 8 mentioned soup. This 1958 ad for Campbell's Soup is something the Mad Men characters might have seen.

Credit Hartman Center, Rubenstein Library, Duke University

A 1960 advertisement for a Ford Falcon Wagon

Credit Hartman Center, Rubenstein Library, Duke University

Episode 8 contained a reference to Admiral radios. Here's an ad for one from the Mad Men era.

Credit Hartman Center, Rubenstein Library, Duke University

In episode 8, Don tries to come up with an ad for Chevy. This The is a real ad from1968 for the Chevy Impala.

Credit Hartman Center, Rubenstein Library, Duke University

A hair color ad from ColorEssence.

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Hermes Green Machine ad for typewriters and other office machines.

By Laura Candler and Lynn Eaton

This is a weekly column written by the Hartman Center, part of Duke University's Rubenstein Library that studies advertising history. Each Monday they dig through their archive to find ads for items referenced in the latest Mad Men episode. Here is this week's column (originally posted on their blog) written by Lynn Eaton and the Hartman Center.

10:30 am

Wed May 15, 2013

Six Street Pianos Coming To Raleigh For Artsplosure

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A child plays on a street piano in New York. Raleigh has never hosted a street piano project before.

By Laura Candler

All the world’s a stage. Or, at least Downtown Raleigh will be for the next two weeks, as six pianos have been placed there outdoors for anyone to play. The decorated instruments are set up in public locations around the city as a part of Artsplosure, Raleigh’s annual visual and performing arts festival, and passersby of any skill level are encouraged to give them a go.

2:50 pm

Mon May 13, 2013

Mad Men Mondays: Duke's Hartman Center Explores Episode 7

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"Give him the children's aspirin more doctors recommend"

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"When it comes to good habits, are they ever too young?" as found in the Ladies Home Journal, June, 1968

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"Break out the frosty bottle, boys, and keep your tonics dry!"

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"If I can fly, you can fly"

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"The JETS are coming!"

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Robert F. Kennedy, Newsweek Cover June 17, 1968

By Laura Candler and Jacqueline Wachholz

5:00 am

Sat May 11, 2013

Elizabeth City Museum Creates Exhibit Entirely Of Postcards

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A postcard from Dare County Beaches

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Postcard with illustration of the Wright brothers' airplane

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'A typical colonial home near Elizabeth City, N.C.' this postcard reads.

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Patriotic Girl postcard

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'The Lost Colony' postcard

By Laura Candler

People often turn to history books to learn about bygone eras, but a new exhibit at the Museum of the Albemarle showcases the value of postcards important cultural documents. The exhibit contains old and new postcards that depict a variety of coastal North Carolina scenes: people on beaches, coastal transportation, architecture, and more. Some of the cards have even been altered to be viewed in 3-D. (Glasses are provided.)

10:23 am

Fri May 10, 2013

VIDEO: Colbert Claims To Be A Tar Heel After Sister Loses SC Congressional Race

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Stephen Colbert

By Laura Candler

On his popular Comedy Central talk show The Colbert Report Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert mourned the fact that his sister, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, lost to former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford in a race for the state’s first district’s Congressional seat.

“Mark Sanford beat my sister,” Colbert said. “I feel so betrayed by South Carolina.”

4:05 pm

Wed May 8, 2013

VIDEO: Coast Guard Rescues Man In Sailboat 70 Miles Off Kitty Hawk

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A rescue swimmer from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City trains with rescue basket from a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter.

By Laura Candler

A British man in a sailboat 70 miles off of Kitty Hawk was rescued by a Coast Guard helicopter this morning.

Trevor Wilson, 72, requested a medevac from his 24-foot sailboat named Erma at approximately 6 a.m. He told the Coast Guard that had fallen and hit his head and been unconscious for seven hours.

2:00 pm

Wed May 8, 2013

Want To Hang Out With Lemurs? Duke Lemur Center Invites Visitors

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A Coquerel's Sifaka lemur at the Duke Lemur Center.

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The Coquerel's Sifaka lemur is the flagship species of the Duke Lemur Center. The center owns all captive animals of this species.

Ring-tailed lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

Lemurs are free to roam the woods in certain areas during warm months, and tours allow people to get within inches of them.

Duke Lemur Center Education Specialist Christ Smith feeds a ring-tailed lemur.

Credit Laura Candler

Education specialist Chris Smith talks to thousands of people a year about the primates. Here, he feeds a ring-tailed lemur a raisin.

Credit Laura Candler

Duke Lemur Center keeps about 250 lemurs, and has an additional 118 on loan to other institutions. Mack Deschamps is a lemur technician.

Jovian, a Coquerel's Sifaka lemur who played Zoboomafu in the popoular PBS series.

Credit Laura Candler

The most famous lemur at the center is Jovian, who starred in the popular television program Zoboomafoo. Jovian is 20 years old.

A lemur's tail, trimmed for identification, at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

Zookeepers trim certain lemurs' tails in order to identify them.

Credit Laura Candler

Sprite, named after the soft drink, looks for food. Her tail suffered an injury and had to be amputated earlier this year.

Name tags for lemurs at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

Each troop of lemurs is named after a certain theme. This one is soft drinks.

Blue-eyed black lemurs are a rare species at the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

The Center has about 20 different species of lemurs, including the rare blue-eyed black. This female called West recently gave birth to baby Hiddleston, who clings to her back most of the time.

A school group visits the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

School groups like this one frequent the center to learn about the animals.

Illustrations by children who've visited the Duke Lemur Center.

Credit Laura Candler

The Center receives 17,000 visitors a year. This walkway is lined with illustrations from some of its younger visitors.

By Laura Candler

A Walking with Lemurs tour at the Duke Lemur Center might just seem like an ordinary walk through the woods at first. But at the rustle of a food bucket, tiny, energetic animals begin to descend from the treetops, and you know you’re not walking in any normal forest. Lemurs zip past you at will, some of them with tiny infants clinging to their backs, and there are no barriers between you and the furry primates.

10:03 am

Wed May 8, 2013

2013 James Beard Awards Announced, No NC Winners

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By Laura Candler

The James Beard Foundation announced the recipients of the 2013 Restaurant and Chef Awards on Monday night. Raleigh’s Ashley Christensen of Poole’s Diner was in the running for Best Chef in the Southeast, but the final award for that category went to Joseph Lenn of The Barn at Blackberry Farm in Walland, Tennessee. Christensen was North Carolina’s only James Beard Award Nominee (finalist) this year, out of 13 semi-finalists in the state. Hear her interview with WUNC's State of Things.