Evil Air: Malaria in the American South
Image shows the range of Plasmodium Falciparum in North and South America.From 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created Feb. 6, 1692: Taken ill a Seventh time: with a Tertian Ague: about 3h p.m...
View ArticleA Chat about the Book, Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution, by...
Soon to be movie starring Ben Affleck (not a joke) Recently I read two books: one was great and one was pretty good. In this post I am going to discuss the pretty good one, Bunker Hill: A City, a...
View ArticleSouthern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Applications
Part of James Robinson Jr. of Chester County SC’s Revolutionary War pension application. Signed by the Gamecock himself General Thomas Sumter. There were many James Robinsons during this period in the...
View ArticleAuthor Sharyn McCrumb to Speak at Barton College
Today is the last day that you can register for the Friends of Hackney Library Spring Dinner and Lecture that is on April 1 with the featured guest award-winning North Carolina writer Sharyn McCrumb....
View ArticleQuakers in North Carolina
1708 Moseley Map of Albemarle After Ancestry.com finally got back on line after 3 days of denial of service attacks, which seems to be happening to many high profile websites in the past few weeks...
View ArticleOld Mill of Guilford
I was driving toward Stokesdale, NC to pick up my dog (it was being boarded while I was on vacation) and passed something that gave me pause. It was a working grist mill! That is something you don’t...
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