Posted in On This Day, tagged caledonia prison farm, cumberland county nc, david carbine williams, gov angus mclean, jimmy stewart, m1 carbine on November 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1926: Firearms inventor David Marshall “Carbine” Williams, imprisoned at Caledonia Farm, writes his mother: “I am not in a writing mood. I am at present under stress of an unusual type of blues caused by a collision of inventive thoughts on a certain subject in my mind that is hard pressed [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged 3000 hits, ava gardner museum, clark gable, confederate money, derek jeter, eleanor roosevelt, frank sinatra, greensboro hornets, ike turner, jefferson davis funeral, jimmy stewart, raleigh nc, smithfield nc, tina turner, yadkin trail on July 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– Unlike similar small-town shrines to Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable, the Ava Gardner Museum is achieving at least modest success — thanks to Frank? – Confederate money had its day. – Eleanor Roosevelt slept here, Ike and Tina fought there. – Yadkin Trail marker overgrown but not overlooked. – Derek Jeter, 3,004 hits ago. [...]
