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
Category: The South
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
The History and a Song: Arlo Guthrie’s “The City of New Orleans”
Many years ago, a railway was defined as a “track for steam carriages.” This is an extremely inadequate definition with our modern standards. The modern
So you want to survive a bear encounter?
Map showing black bear populations in the US. I didn’t really think about bears living in eastern North Carolina until one ran out in front
A Lost Language: The Old West
While re-watching Tombstone, for what I am sure was the 100th time, I couldn’t help but think about the selected phrases and words that the
