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Out by Storybrook yes. You shoukf post something on the farm. New one of the welders quite well. Went to a couple weddings there. Owner had, um, some interesting sociological/political leanings.
When the character of Sheriff Andy Taylor first appeared in an episode of ‘The Danny Thomas Show,’ aired on February 15, 1960, he was more a bad cop than a good one and in some early episodes of his own show Griffith continued in that role - as an opportunist and slightly mean-spirited trickster. But that’s not the Andy that we love, and we know now that Griffith made a conscious move away from that representation by the second season. That’s a good thing for us all - if any of you have seen ‘Face in the Crowd’ you know the kind of malevolence that Griffith could muster up. Thankfully Sheriff Taylor stepped away from that and toward the honest, wise, and thoughtful lawman that we love.
#OTD 1945 b. William Oliver Swofford in N.Wilkesboro. A Morehead Scholar @UNC, his college band unsuccessful, he recorded ‘Good Morning Starshine’ from the musical ‘Hair’ as OLIVER & hit #3 on the Billboard Easy Listening Charts in ‘69. Two months later, ‘Jean’ hit #2. He had modest success in the ‘70s, left music, had a good career in sales, & passed away in 2000. Brother John was Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference & Quarterbacked @UNC. Another brother played football @dook.
Oliver, North Wilkesboro Native, a Sixties Pop Sensation
Never knew. Pretty cool.
#OTD in 1820 in the US House Of Representatives, NC Congressman Felix Walker ‘spoke for Buncombe,’ #AVL #WNC. His speech was nonsense & rambling but he refused to yield the floor though beseeched. He also interrupted the important, though ultimately futile, work of framing “The Missouri Compromise.” His colleagues came to call this ‘Bunkum’ or ‘Bunk’ & a new term for worthless bloviation was born.
There was a play written about this. I live in Alamance County and saw it performed at the Paramount Theater in Burlington. While I’m not a theater critic, I would have to say it was a very touching play that brought home to the audience a feeling of what it was like to be a black person in NC just after the War. I don’t remember the play’s name.IN GRAHAM
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Lynching of Wyatt Outlaw and the Kirk-Holden War
On February 26, 1870, Graham town commissioner Wyatt Outlaw, an African American, was lynched by a band of Ku Klux Klansmen.Outlaw served in the 2nd Regiment United States Colored Cavalry during the Civil War. In 1866, he attended the second freedmen’s convention in Raleigh and soon after...www.dncr.nc.gov
During the Vietnam War, both my older brothers were in the Navy. One of them was in Vietnam--as a weather man assigned to the Marines up on the DMZ--when our church was visited by the choir from some Methodist college in the Southeast. As was the custom, the members of the choir were divided up among the congregation for Sunday dinner. My family was lucky enough to get two very attractive young women.As a 9-10 year old I watched the news religiously with my Deddy. My brother was 19 and his lottery number was 17. There was derp concern in our house.
Ironically, caught up in Combat and Rat Patrol, I was gung-ho and trying to talk my parents into sending me away to Fork Union Military Academy. Thankfully they waved me off.
Watching the Tote Board of killed and casualties every evening I was pretty sure we were bound for victory, so very many more of THEM were killed compared to US.
I grew up some and by the early 1970s the mendacity of Nixon was so crystal clear - eyes open wide.