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Mast General opened its second
store, in Boone, North Carolina.
The Tree of Peace was planted
at Sautee Nacoochee Center,
Georgia.
The McCreary County (Kentucky)
Museum opened its doors for the
first time.
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1987 and then promptly founded
the Dollywood Foundation the
next year. Dedicated to helping
native Tennesseans achieve educational
success, the foundation
has served many good causes over
the years. In the early 1990s, for
instance, Parton promised every
Sevier County student in seventh
and eighth grade $500 if they
went on to graduate from high
school. Known as The Buddy Program,
the initiative reduced dropout
rates by 29 percent.
The National Arts and Crafts
Conference comes to the Grove
Park Inn. It's little wonder why
the National Arts and Crafts Conference,
an annual fête celebrat68
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ing handicrafts, has been hosted
at Asheville, North Carolina's
Grove Park Inn since February
1988. Constructed in 1913, the
hotel is and always has been a
bastion of the Arts and Crafts aesthetic.
The conference began with
about 300 attendees and now attracts
10 times that many.
Mast General Store expands
to Boone, North Carolina. In the
spring of 1980, John and Faye
Cooper purchased a 19th-century
provisions shop nestled in the
High Country of North Carolina.
Though the building was rife with
cobwebs and decades of disrepair,
the Coopers saw promise-a
place locals knew as Mast General
Store. In the years to come, the
couple and their two children
would breathe life back into the
brick-and-mortar, stocking it with
everything from Amish rocking
chairs to buckets of Charleston
Chews. In 1982, they expanded to
a second location a quarter mile
down the way. Then, in 1988,
Mast General Store hit downtown
Boone, with new stores being added
over the years since in other
great mountain towns.
Tree of Peace is planted at the
Sautee Nacoochee Center. Thirty-five
years ago, Mohawk peace
chief Jake Swamp planted a Tree
of Peace at the Sautee Nacoochee
Center in White County, Georgia.

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