My family vacationed to the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennesee and North Carolina long before grandkids were ever in the picture. When my cousin and
Category: The South
A Holy Ghost Tent Revival
Especially the older generations of Southerners can picture this come summer/springtime. Outside of town, a large tent that has been erected in an empty field
Family History: Royals, Draft Dodgers and Jitney Drivers
I started this post on International Women’s Day in honor of my paternal 2nd great-grandmother, Caroline, who was born on March 2nd, 1858. While my
A Culture of Food: Spots for spot?
It happens to me every year around this time. On the side of almost every rural North Carolina coastal town, I see a sign: fresh
Pepsi: Born where?
“Well, you know Pepsi started right there in Chinquapin.” That is something we would hear every time we passed through Chinquapin. We would respectively respond
A Ghost Story: The Van Eden Ghost Light
While doing a whistle-stop tour of Eastern North Carolina in 1889, President Grover Cleveland asked the conductor why there were two signal lights instead of
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