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2B mma LIFE/ t[|e ClbftcUitte Thursday, August 24, 2006 Healthy habits reduce chances of heart attack Continued from page 1B urgent care. “They weren’t able to deter mine that I wasn’t having a heart attack, so the doctor called the ambxdance.” Taken to Presbyterian Hospital, a blood test showed Mason was having a heart attack. 9 But unlike the typical pic ture of a heart attack victim, Mason wasn’t overwe^ht or a big eater of fried foods. She has a congenital heart condi tion where one artery bridges into her heart muscle. When that artery spasmed, it caused the attack. “Heart disease does run in my family, but my heart attack was not caused by any hi^ cholesterol or clogged arteries,” she said. Mason’s father underwent triple bypass surgery At the time of her heart attack. Mason’s dai^hters, Maya and Taylor were 3 and 10 years old. Tajdor was away with her fathea* and Mason didn’t want to teU her over the phone that she’d had a heart attack ‘1 didn’t want her to have that image,” she said, saying that when people hear heart attack, they think the worst. Maya, she said, was too youf^ to really grasp what was going on. But there was one thing Mason knew for svue: her life had to change and she had to speak to other women about what she’d gone throiogh. “Since Pve had my heart attack. I’ve focused on what’s really important to me,” she said- “This was my wakeup sign to slow down.” That also meant cutting out fast food, lowering her sodi um intake and planning meals. She also works out and said she’s lost 10 pounds in the last few months just finm changing her diet. As the Charlotte Heart Walk approaches, Mason is trying to raise $2,000 and awareness for the evait. The American Heart Association’s Charlotte Metro Heart Walk is ecpected to draw a crowd of at least 6,000 people Uptown to Foimders Hall between Trade and TVyon streets. Some will be honoring loved ones and oth ers will be making a commit ment to improving their own health. This year’s Charlotte Metro Heart Walk wUl be held September 16. It’s a whole new experience promising to motivate and inspire people to improve their health, and inspire those who have been touched by cardiovascular disease. Activities will begin at 7:30 a.m. andthenon-ccanpetitive, three-mile Uptown walk will begin at 9 a.m. following opening ceremonies. The Charlotte Metro Heart Walk raises funds to support heart disease and stroke research and education pro grams that benefit the Charlotte metro community It also promotes walking as part of a healthy lLfest5de by raising more than $1.2 mil lion, the largest amount ever fi>r this event and one of the largest Charlotte-area fund raising events. For information, call the Am^can Heart Association at (704) 374-0632 or visit heartwalk.kmtera.org/char- lottcaic. Tb help Mason with her flmdraising, go to hra- compa ny’s website www.wed- dingsandthecitycom and click on the American Heart Association Charlotte Metro Heart Walk lego. Affordable Health-Benefits For Your Entire Faniily...For Less Than $60 Per Month..Check Us Out! 7th & Davidson - Carole B. Hoefiier Center Every Thursday @ 7pm • Saturday’s @ Warn For Reservations Call: 704-277-4077 ‘‘Business Opportunity” ♦ www.greg2008.simpleasabc.conj W m Douglass’ childhood home is unearthed Continued from page 1B slave graveyard, a captain’s house, a smokehouse and other structures also dot the property A strip described by Douglass as the Long Green is where the archaeologists are concentrating their efforts. Douglass lived at the plan- taticai for several years in the mid-1820s and wrote about it after his 1838 escape finm slavery In Ihe 1845 autobiog raphy ‘TSTarrative of the Life of PVederick Douglass,” he described the plantation as “a little nation by itself, having its own language, its own rules, regulations, and cus toms ... The overseer was the important dignitary... All the people were the froperty of one man, and they could themselves own no property” The foimdations of fiiree buildings, and possibly a fourth, have been discovered along the narrow strip of land betweai a gravel path, men tioned by Douglass, and the Chesapeake Bay A tall poplar grows between the foundation of what may have been a two-story slave quar ters Douglass mentioned. An American Indian burial ground dating to before the Lloyd plantation has also been foimd there. Other buildings were used as either housing or work space by the slaves, many of whom had backgrounds in fields such as carpentry, blacksmithing and barrel- making, said Lisa Kraus, a doctoral student who used Doi^ass’ autobiography and old maps to decide where to dig. Many slaves at Wye House “were actually purchased and brought there specifically because they had sldlls the Lloyds needed in order fca- the plantation to function,” Kraus said. “They were pro ducing material that was used by the plantation but also producir^ things that were shipped out, which was totally different than most other plantation slaves.” Mark Leone, an anthropolo gist supervising the project, said the plantation did not just provide for the owners’ needs: Wye House was the head of a large commercial enterprise. “How do 5^u turn farm products into international trade for a profit? That’s what these places are really all about and that’s what this Long Green is—it is the labor base for a very big set of diversified indristries,” Leone said. Before digging began, Leone said archaeologists contacted descendants of slaves who worked on the propa:ty many of whom still live in nearby UnionviUe and Copperville, and asked what questions they had. The descendants were most inter ested in slave spirituality and the role the Wye House slaves had in blacks’ fi^t for fi^- dom, Leone said. Items relating to those questions haye not yet been found, although some items believed to have had spiritual significance were previously discovered in buildings on the estate, he said. The excavation is being done with the permission of Mary S. 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