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Preparing a feast at the Herring Club
If you were driving west on 264 last Wednesday about mid-morning, you could smell the best BBQ chicken in Eastern North Carolina. Going along with ...
If you were driving west on 264 last Wednesday about mid-morning, you could smell the best BBQ chicken in Eastern North Carolina. Going along with ...
Last week I wrote about Church Homecoming. This week I want to write about high school Homecoming. They were similar in nature, yet very different. One ...
Hurricane season is not the best time to live on the Pamlico River, though there is never a bad time to live on the river. Not ...
After watching college football all day on Saturday, I thought about the times that Tracey fed the offensive linemen from East Carolina at home in ...
East Carolina hosted Marshall in football last Saturday and there was a group of former players that did not care which team won. They were ...
The old Coast Guard Station use to be at the foot of the bridge that crossesthe Pamlico River and runs onto Highway 17. It was so clean and neat andgave you the appearance of a hospital. The buoy yard was always so orderly and well organized. For years it was the home of Carol Farrow McCracken, who grew up there and went to school in Washington up until her father retired. They then moved to Cape Hatteras, where she finished high school and later moved to Winston-Salem, N.C. The ship was a buoy tender and it was called the Verbena. Only buoy tenders were named after a shrub or plant common to the area where it was built. There are verbenas growing in our yard ...
Every year on the Fourth of July week, Marshall Todd Singleton and wife, Brenda, get ready for a mini-reunion. Brenda is a cousin to Nora Lynn ...
At the beginning of The Skyline Drive is a town in Virginia named Front Royal where I spent a year of my life. Billy Jarman ...
John and Billy Hill were not the only boys who had a mom at school. Mrs. Hazel Hill was a mom to all of us boys. ...
Before we left for an athletic trip, Coaches Wagner, Chapin and Alligood had to go by Ms. Bowen’s to get money to feed us. Mr. ...