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Questions Answered Humorist Jeanne Robertson says the two questions asked her most often are, “How tall are you?” and “How did you become a professional speaker?” The answer to the first one is well known because this six-foot-two Graham “girl” became the tallest contestant to ever compete in the Miss America Pageant, a distinction she still holds over forty years after she was Miss North Carolina. The answer to
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Museum where all of Jeanne’s pageant memorabilia is featured in a permanent exhibit titled Behind Her All The Way -Graham’s Miss North Carolina. From being crowned Miss Graham through her more than 500 presentations as Miss North Carolina, trace how the seeds were planted and took root for a professional speaking career that has grown for decades.
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Over 400 Graham
citizens traveled to Atlantic City that year, where Jeanne was awarded Miss Congeniality by the highest margin of votes in the Pageant’s history. Now some forty years later,
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newspapers printed a contestant’s measurements in the
headlines, playing the ukulele was considered pageant talent, and women wore merriwidows under their evening gowns and pillbox hats on their heads. A panoramic view of a year in North Carolina, this exhibit features memorabilia from events across the state in 1963-64...local pageants, town parades, ribbon cuttings and more.
Behind Her All The Way salutes a
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