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2 days ago | morganton.com | Paul Kitagaki Jr.

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2 days ago | morganton.com | Hector Amezcua

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2 days ago | morganton.com | Sharon Mcbrayer

Terri and David Parker fell in love with Hidden Hills Venue & Conference Center when their daughter got married there. They decided to buy it and make other people’s events just as special. With new life events including the arrival of grandchildren, the couple decided it’s time to let someone else own and run Hidden Hills. The 4,790-square-foot conference center and surrounding 10.3 acres is on the real estate market for $3.2 million.

2 days ago | morganton.com | Thibault Camus

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3 days ago | morganton.com | Eileen Ogintz

Let’s hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter’s archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he’d been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the “boy king,” who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.