Joyce Ann Barber and Rebecca Barber Floyd are among this year's Preservation North Carolina's winners of the Gertrude S. Carraway Award of Merit. The award is named for a New Bern activist who led the push to rebuild Tryon Palace in the 1950s.

The organization calls the sisters "heroes" for preserving their father's 241-acre farm instead of selling it for development.

Salisbury Post (11/18/2009) 

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