Tagged: Our State Magazine

#Neon June 3

Today for the 30-Day Sign Coach4aday Challenge I am focusing on the NEON sign. The word neon comes from the Greek “neos,” meaning “the new gas.” That gas was discovered by William Ramsey and...

#BladenCounty February 12

North Carolina is a basically a rural state with 70 of its 100 counties being classified as rural. That includes BLADEN County. In 1734 BLADEN became a precinct. It was part of Bath County...

#Calabash June 12

This is a story about CALABASH. In March of 1978 I was a 25 year old assistant basketball coach at Pembroke State now called UNC Pembroke.  The university sponsored a men’s college golf tournament...

#Feldspar April 10

In 2016 I wrote a daily post about North Carolina. 2016 was a leap year so I wrote 366 posts on something I learned new about the Tar Heel State. One of those post...