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CityViewNC.com | 35 Register now online (search using the word "real") or call for more information: (910) 678-0032 FTCC's Continuing Education offers NC Real Estate Continuing Education Courses for Brokers & Brokers-in-Charge. Broker In-Charge Real Estate Update Elective - The Contract Maze General Real Estate Update F T C C C OR P OR AT E & C ON T INUING E DUC AT ION in Independence, Missouri; and Walt Disney's Hometown in Marceline, Missouri, a town that was the model for Disneyland's Main Street USA. And now, he's focused on raising the roof on the N.C. History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction. Eisterhold sees it as a for-the-record mission. "It's to teach the fundamental lesson of how people make history out of the stuff that happens," he says. "ere's been a whole lot of not very useful narratives that have been lying on the ground. And part of the reason why we're going back to these personal narratives (is) trying to show how these people's lives and agencies and resilience played out in the landscape, if you will, that they were given. "So, we're paying a lot more attention to the how and why of what happened back then than to the names and dates of just what, where and when," Eisterhold says. "Because people need to understand how this happened if they're going to learn from it. And by taking it down to the basics, then people start to think how that role in history came about and what it means and the stage it set for today. And it still resonates. It's right under the surface." In October, he said he was a couple of months into the work of designing exhibits for the Fayetteville center. "e particular thing about it is there is a need to break this history down to the granular component parts and then show how history has been made out of that in the past," he says. Some of what he sees as pertinent to the center's historical content is how people were living their lives in North Carolina during those years; what they did for their livelihood; the economic factors that were in play; and the power structure from a time so long ago. His motivation is building a museum not with brick and mortar but with ideas. "I like to learn stuff and then see how you can make something of it, and then seeing the other part of that equation and seeing how people pick it up. It's not enough to just put something out there," he says. "You have to kind of mirror how someone else is going to observe it and take it on, carry it on down the road."

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