“As idyllic as his days in Royston [Georgia] seemed to be, [young Ty Cobb] was always delighted to visit Grandpa Johnnie, the antislavery Reb, in rural Murphy, North Carolina…. “Once, when he was about 11, he accompanied Johnnie Cobb to Asheville, where the ‘squire’ was serving as foreman of the jury in a civil matter, […]
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Young Ty Cobb showed grit in Asheville courtroom
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville nc, Charles Leerhsen, murphy nc, ty cobb on January 2, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe naming a town isn’t as easy as it seems
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged antonio canova, archibald murphey, carrboro nc, conover nc, frances venable, julian shakespeare carr, murphy nc, north carolina gazetteer, oliver wendell holmes, wendell nc on November 11, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Nicholas Graham’s revelation of Carrboro’s backstory — how UNC president and chemist Francis P. Venable gratefully handed over title to the town’s name to the way less modest Julian Shakespeare Carr — reminded me of other instances in which North Carolina’s intent to honor the intelligentsia proved challenging: — Conover is named for the Italian […]
‘Manteo to Murphy’ yielding to ‘Murphy to Manteo’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged manteo nc, manteo to murphy, murphy nc, murphy to manteo, zebulon vance on September 11, 2014 | 5 Comments »
” ‘Manteo to Murphy’ is a phrase often used in reference to the entire east-west width of North Carolina, particularly when describing a phenomenon that touches all regions of the state. “The phrase was famously applied to the 1876 gubernatorial campaign between Zebulon B. Vance and Supreme Court Justice Thomas Settle Jr., in which Vance’s […]
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