Record #:

23415

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

These are excerpts from a book to be published in the future entitled “The Boy With America In His Eyes, and other Strange Tales of North Carolina,” by Tom Painter and Roger Kammerer. These stories include: In 1888, Capt. Lorenzo Willis and crew killed a monster shark in Carteret County, NC,18 feet long, 8 feet across the breast and two tons in weight after a two-hour fight; Six-toed Marines in WWII causes issues; In 1898, many families in Rutherford County gave their children strange names like Zaluski, Quitina Quiltina Quinn, and Linsco; an Indian skeleton in a canoe was found in a marl bed in Pitt County in 1878; in 1954, Mrs. G. S. Thomas of Rocky Mount, NC, the only surviving daughter left in North Carolina of the War of 1812; in 1899, there was evidence of the practice of drawing a witch on a cypress tree and shooting it with silver bullets to remove an evil spell in Sampson County, NC; and a boy with America in the pupils of his eyes from Greene County, NC in 1894.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 26-May 9 2006, p7

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History