— Captured battle flags returning to N.C. coast (and not everybody is happy about it). — Tidbits of Tar Heelia tucked in David McCullough’s latest. — For Colored Agricultural Fair, “The whole city participated, just like Bele Chere.” — Nitrate negatives yield a (slow-loading) gallery of “Old Wilmington Mystery Photos.” — Who would steal Mitch […]
Posts Tagged ‘civil war flags’
Link dump shrugs off Iowa straw poll, heads to N.H.
Posted in History, Literature, New Books, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, civil war flags, colored agricultural fair, david mccullough, mitch easter, new bern nc, nitrate negatives, wilmington nc on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What wasn’t in a name: Anson’s ill-fated OK Boys
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged allan metcalf, anson county, augustus woodbury, civil war flags, ok boys, ok usage, ok: the improbable history of america's greatest word, roanoke island on November 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“After OK had been adopted as the name of a club by the Tammany boys in the presidential election of 1840, others happily follow suit…. “During the Civil War, there were OK Boys, at least in North Carolina. An 1867 narrative… by Augustus Woodbury says of the Confederate forces on Roanoke: ” ‘There were infantry […]
Today’s link dump calls for banner headline
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged black vultures, catherine ann devereaux edmondston, civil war flags, fort fisher, pisgah national forest on November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
— Secesh quote machine Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston rips into her family for clinging to “the old striped rag.” — Auction house expects “rag” that flew above Fort Fisher to fetch 25 G’s. — Ah, to be a black vulture in Pisgah National Forest.
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