#Home July 27
My HOME the past 23 years has been in Lumberton NC. It is a HOME with a lot of history thanks to the first owner and his family. In August of 1998, my family...
Category: History
#TommyRock July 26
TOMMY ROCK is an iconic place on the campus of UNC Pembroke. College campuses often have places that graduates and visitors often look to take photos. Often times that location is a statue and...
#Podcast July 22
Sometimes we have to remember that technology changes our world. That is the case with the PODCAST. It didn’t exist until 2004. In 2001 Apple debut the IPod. It was not the first MP3...
#TVA July 21
Spending weeks in Florence Alabama has educated me about the Tennessee Valley Authority of TVA. Just across the Tennessee River from Florence is Muscle Shoals AL. It was in Muscle Shoals that TVA got...
#Barcode July 16
In 1969 the BARCODE or UPC was invented in North Carolina that is part of almost every item sold in the world today. The Universal Product Code (UPC) consists of 12 numeric digits, that...
#Ropewalk July 15
An establishment that manufactured rope was referred to as a ROPEWALK. As part of the 30 Day History #Coach4adayChallenge I wanted to share a little more about it. Rope making is one of the...
#Bojangles July 13
Living in North Carolina often results in an affinity for BOJANGLES restaurants. The fact is by last count there are 318 stores in the state. Last week I was watching the news and they...
#Mississippi July 10
MISSISSIPPI is a fun word to pronounce. The river that bears it’s name is also fascinating to learn about. In June my wife and I took a River Boat Cruise on the might MISSISSIPPI...
#Stealing July 7
STEALING a base in baseball doesn’t happen in every inning especially at the professional level. As part of the #Coach4adayChallenge I wanted to go over some baseball history records related to stolen bases. Today...
#Can July 6
Beer has not always packaged in a CAN. Part of the #Coach4adayChallenge for July is to share some interesting aspect of history. How the beer CAN has evolved is the focus of this post....
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