Tar Heel Bus Tour 2007

Here is a look back in pictures at some of what this year's Tar Heel Bus Tour participants saw and learned:

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Photos above from left to right (All photos by Justin Smith):

1. Tar Heel Bus Tour participants pose for a group shot in Wilson County at Dean's Farm Market.
   
   
2. Pender Sharp, a Wilson County tobacco farmer, explains the process of curing tobacco to the Tar Heel Bus Tour participants.
   
   
3. Kia Caldwell, an assistant professor of African and African American Studies, picks a strawberry at Dean's Farm Market in Wilson County on the first day of the Tar Heel Bus Tour.
   
   
4. Faculty members tour the Grady-White Boat Factory in Greenville to learn about the process involved in boat manufacturing.
   
   
5. Faculty members had the chance to learn first hand about issues facing the barrier islands at Shackleford Banks.
   
   
6. Michael Evers, Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, eats lunch with a student from James Kenan High School in Warsaw.
   
   
7. Hans Paerl, a professor at IMS, shows the Tar Heel Bus Tour participants a map of the North Carolina coast.
   
   
8. Lynn Fox, Assistant Professor in Dental Ecology, speaks with an Indian princess at the Coharie Tribal Center in Sampson County.
   
   
9. Tar Heel Bus Tour participants visit the Parachute Packing Facility at Fort Bragg.
   
   
10. Tar Heel Bus Tour participants Doug Lauen, left, Joe Green, middle, and Todd Boyette, right, tour the Victory Junction Gang Camp in Randleman where mentally and physically disabled children come to camp.

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