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A collection of different stories told around the county. In this group there are stories of opossums wandering downtown Greenville causing mayhem and an old safe dug up in 1947 causing excitement. Several World War II ships and planes were named after some famous Pitt Countians, one being a Boeing flying fortress named “Miss Greenville, N.C.” In 1928, E. G. Flanagan and Matt R. Long of Greenville were named Kentucky Colonels by the Governor of Kentucky. And lastly, there is a funny story of trail-blazer of a man going into a Greenville beauty parlor in 1927 and having his hair done.
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