Posted in Just A Bite, tagged fdr, robert d. hormats, robert e. 'muley' doughton, robert e. lee, tax legislation on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“The House Ways and Means Committee was skeptical of [FDR's] revenue proposals. “Its legendary chairman, Robert Lee ‘Muley’ Doughton [of] North Carolina had been a central figure in passage of the Social Security Act and other New Deal tax legislation. But Doughton foremost was a Southerner. He had been born during the Civil War, and [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, tagged nc outer banks, orrin h pilkey, slave ships, world's beaches on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Some beach debris is gruesome….In the 1970s a local physician found a piece of shipwreck timber on a North Carolina Outer Banks beach. The piece of cypress wood had two clumps of rust on it separated by a few inches. Close examination of the rust revealed fragments of a fibula and tibia in each. The [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged american heritage, american revolution, intestine war, nc gov abner nash, thomas b allen on February 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In the South, intestine [internal] war continually raged inside the conventional war of strategy and maneuver being fought by the British and Continental armies. Intestine warfare was more than pitched; it fondly embraced cruelty, nighttime murders and hangings without trial…. “Or, as North Carolina Governor Abner Nash more vividly described the land that suffered it, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged edward l. ayers, lynching, the promise of the new south, wilmington 1898 on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Lynchings were far more likely to occur in some regions of the South than others, and those patterns call into question easy assumptions about the forces behind lynching…. Although North Carolina witnessed the greatest amount of racial conflict in the political realm of any Southern state, including the brutal white supremacy campaign and Wilmington riot [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged Gen. Charles Cornwallis, Ira Berlin, slaves during american revolution, wilmington nc on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“More than any other British field commander, General Charles Cornwallis considered creating an army of former slaves. Although he ultimately rejected that course, during his drive through North Carolina Cornwallis transformed the black people who trailed his army into foraging units. “They did their work too well, and he ordered that ‘no Negroe shall be [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged alexander mcgillivray, american heritage, colonel marinus willett, creek indians, gary l. roberts, guilford courthouse nc on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Curious crowds gathered in the hamlets and towns along the route [of Creek chieftain Alexander McGillivray, traveling from Georgia to New York in 1790 to negotiate a treaty with President Washington]. No incidents marred the journey, although many of the Carolina settlers had suffered from the forays of McGillivray’s warriors. “Indeed, at Guilford Courthouse, North [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged drugs in america, h wayne morgan, hypodermic needle, morphine, opium on January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Some experts… believed that injected morphine was not addictive, though it was when taken orally. One North Carolina doctor told [researcher H.H.] Kane in 1880 in perfect innocence: ‘On one patient I have used the hypodermic needle between 2,500 and 3,000 times in a period of 18 months, and so far I see no signs [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia on January 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our colleagues at NCpedia remind us that today marks the 300th anniversary of the Carolina Proprietors’ official appointment of Edward Hyde as governor of the northern half of the Carolina province. As William S. Powell writes in North Carolina Through Four Centuries: Unhappy over the chaotic conditions in their province, the Lords Proprietors decided on [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged bears, natural history, travelers' tales on January 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“In the Colonial era, as in every era, natural history information was, in part, passed along in what are known as travelers’ tales. These tales could be quite astonishing. “In one, John Brickell, an Irish physician living in North Carolina, described how bear cubs were initially lumps of white flesh, ‘void of form,’ and only [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Article 14, Section 8 was adopted during the Constitutional Convention of 1875. The amendment, outlawing interracial marriage, remained a part of the North Carolina Constitution until 1971, when a new state constitution was adopted. In 1977 the General Assembly passed a law validating all interracial marriages that occurred prior to March 24, 1977, the date [...]
