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Christian Science is a religion that believes in the healing principles used and taught by Jesus, and later by Mary Baker Eddy in 1866. By studying the Bible, Mrs. Eddy discovered how to implement and teach Jesus' method of healing. Mrs. Eddy founded the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston in 1879. The Greenville Christian Scientist Society first met in 1889, supported by an unknown music student visiting Greenville from Boston. The Society met in homes until it grew too large, and by 1934 they held meetings in Pythian Hall. The Mother Church of Christian Science recognized the Greenville branch in March 1934. The Society bought the church building of the Universalists and held their first meeting there in 1937, finally building their own church in June 1951, on the corner of Fourth and Meade Streets. They held the first service there in June 1952.
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Throughout Pitt County's history, people reported strange weather and things in the sky. In the years 1798, 1838, 1842, 1867, 1887, and 1919 the Tar River flooded tremendously. The largest of these floods was in November 1887, in which the Tar River Bridge almost floated away. In 1816, North Carolina experienced the \"year without a summer,\" at which time the snow and cold weather lasted through August. The Tar River froze over to the point that people walked and sometimes drove across it in 1857, 1893, and 1917. Great snows came to Pitt County in 1876 - 77, 1889, and 1902. In May 1901, F.C. Harding reported \"black hail\" near Ayden. In 1915, hail fell eight inches thick in downtown Greenville. A comet crossed the sky in September 1769, and Pitt County residents saw meteors in 1857, 1935, and 1934. An Aurora Borealis lit the sky September 2 - 4, 1859. UFOs allegedly flew over the County on: April 8, 1897; June 1897; April 11, 1950; July 27, 1967; and several times between 1973 and 1975.
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On April 12, 1845, the shortest man in history, Tom Thumb, came to Tarboro, where he was shown at the Pender Hotel. He was twenty - seven inches high and weighed twenty - five pounds. He made his living by selling photographs of himself. According to an advertisement that appeared in a Tarboro newspaper, Tom Thumb was scheduled to appear in Greenville and Washington after his visit there.\r\n\r\nOn July 31, 1969, Fidel Castro's sister, Juanita, gave two talks at East Carolina University. She denounced her brother's rule and stated that she was helping Cuban refugees flee his regime. Her speeches reflected strong anti - Communist sentiment. She believed that ninety - five percent of Cubans were unhappy with Fidel Castro and that one day Cuba would become free again.\r\n
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Louis Armstrong was born in New Orleans in 1901. Armstrong sang on the streets as a child and was influenced by the jazz he heard there. He taught himself to play the cornet and began playing in the local clubs. In 1922, he joined Joe \"King\" Oliver's band in Chicago, which started his recording career. Armstrong then started his own band, the Hot Seven (originally the Hot Five). He married in 1942 and bought a house in Queens, New York. He averaged three hundred concerts a year, appeared in thirty films, and wrote two autobiographies. Armstrong was nicknamed \"Satchmo,\" short for Satchelmouth, which was a joke about the size of his mouth. On November 3, 1959, \"Satchmo\" came to Greenville, and performed in the Raynor - Forbes Tobacco Warehouse with more than 1,000 persons attending.
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The first train that came through Pitt County arrived in Bethel on September 12, 1882, on the newly completed Seaboard - Raleigh Railroad. Citizens of a three - county region celebrated this occasion with speeches and a dinner. The Tarboro Southerner covered this event, and the resulting article is included. Chartered in 1868, financial reverses caused many delays in the railroad's completion. It was not until 1890 that a train would come through Greenville.
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Pitt County held its Agricultural Fair on September 17 and 18, 1884. The County sent its show of goods to Raleigh for a state exhibition. Another fair did not occur until 1898, when the Greenville Tobacco Fair Association sponsored the event and a horse race, bands, and dancers were added for entertainment. The horse race, a popular event, continued for years to come, but another fair was not held until 1911. In 1919, Haywood Dale, W.M. Price, and R.L. Smith built a horse racing track and a baseball diamond with a grandstand and an exhibition hall. This site is now occupied by Guy Smith Stadium. The fair achieved success during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1936 local posts of the American Legion assumed sponsorship of the fair; the following year it was moved to a site on Highway 43, where the Medical Pavilion stands today. The fair was discontinued in 1943 because of World War II. It remained at the same location until 1950. In 1951, the fair was moved to the intersection of Airport Road and N.C. 11/US 13, and in 1978 it was moved to its current location on Greenville Boulevard NE near US 264.
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Less than one month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on November 17, 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt visited East Carolina Teacher's College. She actually arrived by plane in Greenville, South Carolina, and had to drive to Greenville, N.C.. She toured the town, visiting Sheppard Memorial Library and the college campus. Mrs. Roosevelt held a press conference at the home of the college president, ate dinner on campus, and gave a talk, \"A Day at the White House.\" She left for Washington, D.C., immediately following the speech.
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Agnes de Mille, the niece of Cecil B. de Mille, was born in Harlem, New York, in 1905 and moved with her family to Hollywood when she was young. De Mille loved dance and pleaded with her parents to allow her to take lessons. She attended UCLA to pursue dancing and acting, and in 1939, the American Ballet Theatre invited de Mille to join the troupe. Her first ballet, \"Black Ritual,\" was the first to use black ballet dancers. During her career, de Mille choreographed various well-known ballets and musicals, including \"Oklahoma\" and \"Carousel.\" At the request of one of her former assistants, Mavis Ray, de Mille visited East Carolina University on January 10, 1968, where she gave a program in McGinnis Auditorium. De Mille suffered a stroke in 1975 and died in 1993.
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Thomas Hezekiah Mix was born in Cameron County, PA, in 1880. It was not until 1904 that he headed west to try his hand as a cowboy. At the St. Louis World Fair, Mix met Will Rogers and they would remain friends for life. Mix had dedicated himself to fine-tuning his rodeo skills. In 1910, he began his movie career when he was hired along with Hoot Gibson to appear in a western. Mix would go on to appear in between 300 and 400 films and to become the first actor to promote his horse as a star. Tom Mix was a \"straight-shooting, non-drinking, non-smoking, non-swearing\" cowboy who set an example for children and adult Wild West fans. Tom Mix came to Greenville on December 1, 1933, and on October 8, 1936. He died in an automobile accident in 1940 at the age of sixty.
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Jack Dempsey was born William Harrison Dempsey in 1895 in Manassa, CO. He left home when he was sixteen to travel the west and on his freight train trips, he learned how to fight simply to survive. His fighting career took off when he encountered Jack \"Doe\" Kerns, a fight manager. Under the guidance of Kerns, Dempsey knocked out several well-known fighters, including Jess Willard, early in his career. During his career, Dempsey amassed forty-nine knock-outs, twenty-five of which took place in the first round. On September 18, 1941, he visited Greenville with the Cole Brothers Combined Circus. Huge crowds gathered around the headliner just to shake the hand of the world-famous boxer.
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Born in Tekamah, NE, Edmund Richard Gibson, nicknamed \"Hoot\" because of his interest in hunting owls, learned how to ride a horse at a young age.He worked as a cowpuncher until 1910, when a film director hired him for a short silent film. He competed in rodeos while he appeared in two other films. In 1912, he won the World's All-Around Champion Cowboy award and later began to appear as a stunt double for Harry Carey and other stars. He did a short stint in the Army during WWI but returned in 1919 to become a major western movie star. Gibson went on to appear in more westerns than any other Hollywood movie star and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Hoot Gibson came to Greenville on October 3, 1937, with the Hagenbeck-Wallace railroad circus. He died of cancer in 1965.
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Famous for his writings on the life of the workingman, Carl Sandberg was a poet, biographer, and newspaper columnist. He was born in Galesville, IL, went to school until he reached the eighth grade. He fought in the Spanish-American War and then attended Lombard College. He moved from job to job in his youth until joining the Wisconsin Social Democratic Party. His biography of Abraham Lincoln and his book, Complete Poems, won Pulitzer prizes. On April 24, 1939, Carl Sandberg gave a program to a packed audience at Wright Auditorium on the campus of East Carolina Teachers College. He died on July 22, 1967.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), the cowboy humorist, came to Greenville on April 6, 1926, and gave two performances to 5,000 fans. Rogers was born on a cattle ranch in Oklahoma. He later joined a Wild West show as a trick roper and entered the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing three lassos at once. Rogers toured the world, wrote a syndicated news column and six books, appeared in 50 silent films and 21 talking movies, and was a popular radio personality. He died at the age of 55 when his plane crashed in Alaska.
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Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937) beat the records for speed, altitude, and distance in aviation. She came to visit Greenville alone in her car on January 15, 1936. Earhart spoke in front of an audience of more 1,500 at the East Carolina Teachers College, telling humorous stories of all of the celebrities she had been mistaken for and also told detailed stories of her adventures in aviation. She stressed to the audience that air travel was the safest of all forms of travel.
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William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was a lawyer, newspaper editor, and Democratic leader, came to Greenville In April of 1918. Bryan was nominated three times for president. While visiting Greenville, he roomed at the Princeton Hotel at the corner of Greene and Washington Streets. Then he spoke to up to seven hundred citizens at White’s Theatre on Fifth Street. The subject of his speech was "The Fundamentals of Man's Relations to the Government, Society, and to God."
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