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his month I thought I would do a little something different. A sweet South Carolina family wrote a letter to the me after a recent trip to the NC Zoo, and I thought I would share that with our readers. We sometimes forget what a great resource we have right in our very own backyard. I hope January is treating you well, and 2021 is a much better year than the last. I look forward to what 2021 has to offer and seeing all of you out and about again in the future - with our masks and socially distanced of course! Stay Healthy, and Happy Reading,
Sherry
Dear Publisher, I have traveled with my family and friends to many places at and around the Triad area of North Carolina in my day. Seeing places with my family and friends thru the years such as the Downtown area of Winston Salem, walking around Wake Forrest University; and shopping through Hanes Mall in Winston Salem and Four Seasons Mall in Greensboro I found very interesting and intriguing through your side of North Carolina. But the place I have to visit over and over again in your area is the great North Carolina Zoological Park in Asheboro NC. Licence plates with cars from all around the country and even from Canada were in the parking lots at the NC Zoo during the summer of 2018 when my family visited there. And after this cold weather and coronavirus of the winter of 2021, we might get to go again this year during summertime. It is one of North Carolina's greatest tourist attractions and happenings. I really liked at the North Carolina Zoo there are two sides of the park with different kinds of animals, such as North America and Africa. It is a very big, sprawling park; it really is the biggest Zoo in all America. And that was very interesting. Seeing the Lions, giraffes, tigers, and hippopotamus animals there was a great sight indeed! It is a very popular venue in America, because when I went there in the summer of 2018 cars were jam packed at the parking spaces with people from all around the country. And I also found interesting that there is a gift shop at the front of the Africa side; and in the middle of the Africa side you could buy refreshments. I have a picture of my family in front of the gift shop on the Africa side from our visit in 2018 that I kept to this day. So everyone, when you are in the Asheboro area visit the North Carolina Zoo. It truly is a place beyond compare. Steven Hawkins is from Greenville SC. Since 2014 he has published letters to the editor in newspapers and magazines in South Carolina and North Carolina. In 2019 he published a collection of his letters and writings through AuthorHouse, a self-publishing company, entitled "Letters from South Carolina."
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