Check out the story about our Storytelling Night at the library in the Daily Journal
Read MoreStory spinners tell tall tales
Ellerbe’s ever-changing names
Stories and history play a big part of who we are today. Both are intermingled to make up the very fabric of our society. Some stories that are told are as true as the Holy Scripture, while others just seem to make our lives more exciting and sometimes we even get a good laugh out of them. Like the story of how the old stoplight in the center of the little...
Read MoreHow Panther Creek got its name
Aliens of today are not the only new group of people to come into our country. In revolutionary times, Richmond County had more British aliens than any other county in our state. Several other nationalities including Scottish, Irish, Africans, Europeans and Native Americans — who, by the way, aren’t aliens — made up most of the people in the new colony....
Read MoreA memorable visit to White Lake
If you have ever lived in the Piedmont or Coastal Plains sections of our great state of North Carolina, you have most likely paid a visit to the 1,200-acre lake known as White Lake sometime in your life. With its clear water, sandy bottoms and gradual drops in water levels, it’s known as one of the safest big bodies of water in the U.S. and it’s a big...
Read MoreDevil visits a Pee Dee Fisherman
In this week’s column, I want to continue with the stories and folklore that are a big part of Richmond and lower Richmond County, now known as Scotland County. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, most of our residents lived in one-room log cabins. A few people managed to build two-room ones that had their kitchen off to the side in case of fire....
Read MoreWagon wheels and a runaway slave
Last week, I told of how two of the first white settlements in Anson County (Mount Pleasant and Grassy Island) got their start in the middle 1700s and how the settlers around Grassy Island built a Methodist meeting house on Bethel Hill (as it was called back then). The land for the meeting house was given by James Pickett around 1775. The old river road...
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