Most years, the first week in April is the best time to fish for crappie in our local lakes and rivers. As the water warms, the crappie move closer to the shallow water to spawn. They love to hang around fallen trees and stumps that line the river banks. It’s not unusual to catch four or five crappie at the same spot. Why, you can leave and come back in an...
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If you were brought up in my generation and your parents had a garden, you probably planted your Irish potatoes by hand in freshly plowed soil. Oh how good that fresh dirt felt between your toes. Tater planting time being the first time of each year I could start going barefoot. To prepare our tater patch we would start in January by spreading leaves and...
Read MoreBeing raised on a farm I picked up several different types of occupational skills. A farmer usually can’t afford to pay someone else to do all the jobs around the farm that need doing. Yes-sir re, if’en there is any way he can do it himself, he will try it. Seems when I was about sixteen, my granddaddy decided it was time for him to retire from farming....
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As more settlers came into the Pee Dee River valleys it became necessary to divide what was then Anson County into smaller counties. In 1779, Richmond and Montgomery counties branched off the mother county of Anson. More and more small farms sprung up along the many small rivers and creeks of the new counties. Places that for centuries had been inhabited...
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In the years before the white settlers moved into the new county of Anson, the red-man ruled. A tribe named the Siouan ran out the Muskogian tribe who had settled along the Pee Dee and Little Rivers in the 1550s and 1650s. The Siouan tribe was divided into groups such as the Waxhaw, Catawba, and Cheraw. The Catawbas were the most powerful and lived closest...
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This story began in the late sixteen hundreds and continues through the next century. It takes place in the rolling hills and valleys along the Pee Dee River. In 1750, this area became known to the white man as Anson County, NC. In the sixteen hundreds and many centuries earlier, the Indian tribes were well established all up and down the Pee Dee River and...
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