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Stumpage Reports
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Monday, March 10, 2003 :::
In Search of Blackbeard's Head: or, A Drive to Beautiful Eastern North Carolina
(all photos linked to may not be geographicaly accurate)
Saturday morning I hit the road with the Lady I Can't Think of a Nickname For and we began to make our way to Bath, North Carolina. Bath is a cool place, it was the first town in North Carolina, about 200 people live there now, and Blackbeard the Pirate lived there for awhile. It is also the place they brought Blackbeard's head after they killed him.
Of course we went through lots of little towns on the way, like Washington (1st town named for George Washington!), Grimesland, and Chocowinity.
I just love those little towns in eastern N.C. Usually on the outskirts will be some kind of cinderblock building that has burned down. If the town is especially prosperous, there will be a pre-fab metal building that sells tractors and farm supplies. Of course there is always a decrepit gas station, sometimes falling down and sometimes being used as something else. Then there's usually some non-descript industrial buildings that you can't tell if they are abandoned or not. There is always downtown. Sometimes the downtown is really shabby and post-apocalyptic and sometimes they are fixed up nice with antique malls and good, local, non-chain restaurants.
All in all a good trip. We hit a few antique malls, walked through some 18th century houses and churches, had lunch and dinner, and saw lots of cool scenery.
I really need to get a digital camera.
Quote of the Day:
The great noise increased, beating of wings in the air. More dead men: a long neat line of dead, like a shattered fence. And now the canister, oh God, he shuddered, millions of metal balls whirring through the air like startled quail, murderous quail, and now for the first time there was screaming, very bad sounds to hear.
--- Michael Shaara, Killer Angels
::: posted by tom at 1:10 PM
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