Carolyn teaches music at Stanfield and Ridgecrest schools. They live on a farm in the Oakboro area. What is amazing is how so many ideas promoting tourism have come together this year, each independent of the other. When Oakboro recently began organizing a museum, it did so without knowing that Badin or Norwood also were developing museums. Nor did any of them know that the Chamber of Commerce had, as its major project for the year, creation of a tourism authority.
Tourism has a friend on the county commission.
Ken Furr serves on a chamber tourism committee which is establishing the permanent authority and he is in the recreation business, supplying bait and tackle to shops in the area. Barbee's enthusiasm for the future could easily apply to tourism in general in the county.