My father's grandfather was born in 1844 on what some people might consider a plantation, but we didn't have many of those in central North Carolina and instead, it'd probably be more accurately described as a really big farm. My great-great-grandfather had inherited some land from his father, who had added to the grant given him after the ( Read more... )

I was reading about some changes planned for a shopping center near my mother's, when I noticed the following banner. The actual ad was flash, but this is where it ended and this is the part that raised a question, so I sized a copy down for it to fit.


( Read more... )

I only became aware of this young lady's struggle on Saturday, most of the coverage has been in a newspaper which I don't ordinarily read and she lives in a place that I mostly know from the highway. After reading a brief report, I started looking for everything that I could find in hopes of telling part of her story here, as a tribute.
As was ( Read more... )

A fellow named Vernon Robinson, who identifies himself as a conservative Republican is running against the incumbent in North Carolina's 13th Congressional District. According to Wikipedia, he ran in the 5th District in 2004, but lost the primary in a run-off. Earlier this year, he announced that he was going to run in the 12th District, where his ( Read more... )

My alma mater, the University of North Carolina prides itself on being the first public university in the nation. The University of Georgia sometimes makes the same claim and there used to be some debate on the subject, but as information has become more free, it looks like they may have reached a truce. UGA was chartered first, but UNC was the ( Read more... )

Earlier, I was reading an article about Peace College and was hit with some new information about the history of female education, something that not only have I never heard before, but after several hours of online research and an email exchange; I still haven't found anything beyond that which was in the original piece ( Read more... )