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ALABAMA —Singer and songwriter Jimmy Buf
fett spent his childhood in Mobile, where he at
tended St. Ignatius School and graduated in 1964
from McGill Institute for Boys, now McGuill-Tool
en Catholic High School. He attended Auburn
University in Auburn (pop. 53,391) for one year.
ARKANSAS—The Villa Marre in downtown Lit
tle Rock was built in 1881 on Scott Street by An
gelo and Jennie Marre, The Italianate and Second
Empire-style home's facade was presented as the
fictional Atlanta home of the Sugarbaker design
firm in the 1980 s sitcom Designing Women.
FLORIDA—At South and Whitehead streets in
Key West, a marker denotes the southernmost
point in the continental United States. Originally
marked by an often-stolen sign, the city erected
abuoy-shaped concrete marker in 1983.
GEORGlA—Babyland General Hospital, located
in a former doctor’s clinic in Cleveland (pop.
3410), is birthplace of one-of-a-kind, hand
stitched Cabbage Patch Dolls. The doll factory is
open for free tours and includes displays on how
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stainless steel bowls, and lights are fastened
to the top to illuminate the turning cylinders.
Some poles sport round glass globes, whereas
others feature metal domes.
The poles sell for $450 to $1,500, depending
on model and size, which ranges from 18 to 47
inches tall. The company also produces chemical
disinfectant and containers used to sanitize hair
combs, brushes, scissors and straight razors.
“It’s important to keep the tradition of the
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dolls are made. The attraction’s operators also
clean and restore dolls, and sell new ones.
KENTUCKY —Television journalist Diane
Sawyer was born in Glasgow (pop. 14,028) and
raised in Louisville. The commentator and
anchor of ABC’s evening World News program
was named one of the 30 most powerful
American women in media in 2012 by Forbes.
The beauty queen and Wellesley College grad
uate attended a semester of law school before
beginning her journalism career.
LOUISIANA—Avery Island is home of Ta
basco sauce, the spicy condiment created by
Edmund Mcllhenny in the 1860 s. Today, the
Mecllhenny Co. is led by Paul Mclllhenny, the
sixth generation of the family.
MISSISSIPPI—Former Southaven (pop. 48,982)
Jawyer and baseball enthusiast John Grisham
used to awaken early to squeeze in a few
hours of novel writing before his day job as a
criminal defense and personal injury litigator.
Now a best-selling legal thriller author, Grish
am majored in accounting at Mississippi State
University and graduated from law school at
the University of Mississippi.
NORTH CAROLINA—Located in Belmont
(pop. 10,076) in the Piedmont region near
The Bloody History
of the Barber Pole
Barber poles descend from
medieval times when barbers
performed surgical procedures
such as bloodletting. Patrons
gripped a wooden pole, some
times with a brass basin at the
top containing blood-sucking
leeches. The bandages—both
blood-stained and clean—that
barbers hung outside their shops
came to represent the twirling
red and white stripes on the
modern-day pole. Whena
patriotic blue stripe was added to
barber poles in the United States,
they became emblems for shops
offering menss haircuts and shaves.
barber pole going,” says
Scott, grandson of the
company’s founder. “It’s
asymbol of the trade
and part of American
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Clockwise from top:
Scott Gohr rolls a paper
cylinder, Chue Vang places
the cylinder inside a glass
tube, and Chor Xiong installs
a light fixture inside a barber
pole at William Marvy Co.
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Charlotte, Belmont Abbey was founded in
1876 as the first abbey cathedral in the West
ern Hemisphere. Today, the abbey houses a
Benedicine monastery of about 20 men.
SOUTH CAROLINA—The Palmetto State is
one of the nation’s top 10 producers of granite,
s 0 it is no surprise that the official state stone is
blue granite. Granite quarries are located main
ly in the Piedmont region, where rock is mined
for use in building and road construction.
TENNESSEE—The Casey Jones Home and
Railroad Museum in Jackson (pop. 65,211) cel
ebrates the life of the famous engineer (1863-
1900) who died saving passengers on his train.
The museum contains a train station, a room
dedicated to Jones’ last ride, a Civil War history
exhibit, a theatre, and a room showcasing the
town’s railroad history, all next to Jones” home.
VIRGINIA—SuffoIk (pop. 54,585) is the largest city
in the Commonwealth, encompassing 430 square
miles of woodlands, fields, rivers, lakes and swamps.
WEST VlßGlNlA—American pioneer, frontiers
man and explorer Daniel Boone (1734-1820) com
pleted his last survey of Charleston (pop. 51,371)
and Point Pleasant, Va. (now in West Virginia)
in 1798 before leaving the Kanawha Valley. The
following year, he moved west to Missouri.