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• Roy’s Folks: Family of fiddlers

  Posted on: 5:59 pm, February 25, 2013, by Roy Ackland

  The Stills family will join a group of other traditional music fiddlers and pickers this Saturday night at the 86th...
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• Piedmont man finds success making windmills

  Posted on: 5:45 pm, February 20, 2013, by Roy Ackland

  Some things are difficult — if not impossible — to see with the naked eye, wind for example. But one...
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• Roy’s Folks: When music and art merge

  Posted on: 5:49 pm, February 18, 2013, by Roy Ackland, updated on: 05:50pm, February 18, 2013

  Last week, we featured a guitar player named Justin Johnson. Today, we have a story about his traveling partner Nikki,...
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• Roy’s Folks: Guitar man Justin Johnson

  Posted on: 6:08 pm, February 13, 2013, by Roy Ackland

  Justin Johnson can play any style of music, but his virtuosity is never more obvious than when he plays primitive...
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• Roy’s Folks: Cigar Box Guitars

  Posted on: 5:10 pm, February 11, 2013, by Roy Ackland, updated on: 05:34pm, February 11, 2013

  Bob Johnson is a cigar aficionado and avid woodworker, so it may have been inevitable that two of his passions...
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• Roy’s Folks: Speed speller

  Posted on: 5:55 pm, February 6, 2013, by Ali Scotti and Roy Ackland

  As a speed speller,  Linda Pickard says she can spell words faster than most people can say them. “It’s exactly...
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• Greensboro artist crafts Bonsai trees from steel

  Posted on: 5:49 pm, February 4, 2013, by Roy Ackland, updated on: 09:58am, February 5, 2013

  GREENSBORO, N.C. — Howard Bemus is a classically-trained Bonsai artist who creates “trees you can’t kill” out of metal. Bemus...
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• Roy’s Folks: Bird feeder

  Posted on: 5:05 pm, January 31, 2013, by Roy Ackland, updated on: 07:06am, February 8, 2013

  Most of us who have a window to look out of, have at least entertained the notion of having a...
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• Roy’s Folks: Rock painter

  Posted on: 4:47 pm, January 28, 2013, by Roy Ackland

  PIEDMONT, N.C. —Pam Thayer spends a lot of time rock-hounding on the banks of the Little Uwharrie River near her...
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• Roy’s Folks: Black family history

  Posted on: 6:15 pm, January 21, 2013, by Roy Ackland

  PIEDMONT, N.C. — The legacy of Charlie and Ollie Tucker has remained intact, thanks to their children. Roy Auckland reports.
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• Roy’s Folks: Bob Timberlake’s new book

  Posted on: 6:30 pm, January 9, 2013, by Roy Ackland

  LEXINGTON, N.C. — Bob Timberlake was one of the first people to be described as “one of Roy’s Folks” as...
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• High Point ‘Santa Claus’ inducted into hall of fame

  Posted on: 6:55 pm, January 7, 2013, by Roy Ackland, updated on: 07:42pm, January 7, 2013

  FOX8′s Roy Ackland spoke to a High Point man who was recently inducted into the International Santa Claus Hall of...
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