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Bill Dow, a physician and organic farmer, founded the North Carolina Agricultural Marketing Project with Laura Heise in 1978, work that led directly to the Carrboro Farmers' Market. He served on Orange County's Committee for Solar and Appropriate Technology and helped bring student health coalitions to UNC.
Source: UNC Libraries: William W. Dow Papers, 1940s-2016
Library of Congress name authority: Dow, Bill, 1945-2012 ↗
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Bill Dow (1945-2012) left papers spanning the 1940s to 2016, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5612. The headings run along two lines: rural and community health services across the South, includi…
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