Posted in Just A Bite, tagged freedom of religion, michael gerhardt, nc legislature, nc school of law on April 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Legislators in North Carolina have proposed a bill declaring that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the government from establishing a state religion, does not apply to the state. [The bill has now been declared DOA in the N.C. House.] “North Carolina is no stranger to breaching the wall between church and [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged gaston county textile mills, lewis hine, nc child labor, Winston-Salem on April 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Fanatics and politicians are out of line…. Children are very serviceable in tobacco factories as stemmers, and it don’t hurt them. In fact, they need employment to keep them out of mischief. Stout, healthy children need constant employment, and the unhealthy ones do not stay in a factory long …. “We are opposed to any [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged bitterly divided, david williams, lumbee on April 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“The Lumbees of eastern North Carolina at first declared neutrality but became solidly pro-Union after Confederates began conscripting them to do forced labor, essentially enslaving them. Lumbee guerrilla bands took revenge by raiding plantations, attacking Confederate supply depots, tearing up rail lines and doing whatever else they could to disrupt Rebel operations.” – From “Bitterly [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged fdr, great depression, land of promise, michael lind on March 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Roosevelt excelled in evoking the hatred of the privileged and the admiration of ordinary Americans. During the Depression, a North Carolina farmer declared, in all sincerity, ‘I’m proud of our United States, and every time I hear the “Star Spangled Banner” I feel a lump in my throat. There ain’t no other nation in the [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged coca-cola, for god country and coca-cola, look homeward angel, mark pendergrast, thomas wolfe on March 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Coca-Cola was the subject of increasing gossip in those years. Growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe heard most of the rumors, but they only increased his taste for Coca-Cola. He immortalized the Great American Drink in this passage from the Great American Novel, ‘Look Homeward, Angel’: ” ‘Drink Coca Cola. They say [Asa [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged irish americans, irish in nc, trulia on March 21, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“…Where are people from Ireland looking for vacation homes in the U.S.? Trulia [a residential real estate site] search traffic reveals that the traditional vacation or resort towns with the highest share of foreign searches coming from Ireland are on Cape Cod, MA …as well as Boothbay Harbor, ME. “But there are some differences between [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on March 19, 2013 | 6 Comments »
License plates in North Carolina may be forced to undergo redesign if new research gains ground suggesting that the Wright Brothers weren’t the first in flight. An article published last week in Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft advances a claim that Gustave Whitehead, a German immigrant to Connecticut, made the first powered and controlled flight [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged claude sitton, day care ritual abuse, edenton nc, edenton seven, little rascals day care case, pat stith, raleigh news & observer on March 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“When I look back, I think my greatest mistake [was] my failure as editor of the News & Observer to make sure we had a top-notch investigative reporter on the Little Rascals [Day Care] case in Edenton…. That prosecutor had gone wild, eaten up by ambition, I suppose, to hang these people…. “All the kids [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on March 18, 2013 | 2 Comments »
The beauty and abundance of the native flowers of eastern America was impressive even to the earliest explorers and colonists, and the early reports and letters sent back to Europe often made reference to the variety of plants in the New World and to their uses. Although land was cleared for crops, trees were cut [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged great agnostic, nc religion, robert ingersoll, susan jacoby on March 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“When I say I want a miracle, I mean by that, I want a good one. All the miracles recorded in the New Testament could have been simulated. A fellow could have pretended to be dead, or blind, or dumb, or deaf…. “I would like to see a miracle like that performed in North Carolina. [...]
