1980-2004
In many ways, despite many challenges, Cumberland County started coming into its own during this 25-year period leading up to its 250th anniversary. Some of the biggest changes have involved the relationship between the county and the city of Fayetteville.
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Picture overlooking downtown from an unfinished floor atop the PWC building
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'We felt all along that Fayetteville was the best place in the country for a festival like this. ... We're hoping it will grow and grow.'
-- Martha Duell, one of the organizers of the International Folk Festival, before the second annual event in 1980
' There will always be naysayers. ... To these folks, step aside and let us pass through.'
-- Marshall Pitts Jr., (pictured) after being sworn in as Fayetteville's mayor in December 2001
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'J.L. Dawkins was the most positive man I know. His entire life, he was a one-man crusade to raise the self-image of Fayetteville and to promote all that is good in this city.'
-- The Rev. David Crocker, of Snyder Memorial Baptist Church, in his eulogy on June 2, 2000, for Dawkins (pictured), the city's longtime mayor
'I think we have half the population of Wilmington.'
-- Glenda Southard, who was working the front desk at the Radisson Prince Charles in Fayetteville, as Hurricane Fran sent coastal residents fleeing inland in September 1996
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'What we saw Tuesday morning is an example of how evil the human heart can become.'
-- Jeff Struecker, a Fort Bragg chaplain, on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001
'It helps the families that the president is here and makes the soldiers feel better.'
-- Robert Kelly, 14, who was among about 200 onlookers waiting outside Womack Army Medical Center as President Bill Clinton visited after a crash that killed 24 Fort Bragg soldiers and injured about 100 others at Pope Air Force Base on March 23, 1994
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