Rougemont residents hoping to create Durham County’s second town got some good news yesterday. The state’s Senate Finance Committee approved the bill and sent it on to the full Senate for a vote. The N.C. House has already approved the measure and a yay from the Senate would pave the way for residents to vote […]
Archive for June 9th, 2011
Rougemont, Inc.–One Step Closer
Posted in From the Stacks, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Give us your tired, your poor… your whacked out?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged christine leigh heyrman, religious exile, southern cross: the beginnings of the bible belt, william glendinning on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“By 1785, some influential Methodists in the Chesapeake had concluded that [Rev. William Glendinning, overwrought and perhaps suicidal] needed either to be treated by doctors or, that failing, quarantined from the faithful. “So they tied him up and spirited him across the border to North Carolina, a place in the South then akin to what […]
