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30332
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Born in Kentucky, Jonathon Bowling lived in Belgium for much of his childhood before discovering his love of art while attending college at the University of Kentucky. Bowling followed his girlfriend to North Carolina in 1996 and ended up furthering his two art degrees with a Masters in Sculpture from East Carolina University. In 2002, he opened an art gallery in Greenville named "The Hobbyhorse," where he displays and sells not only his own work, but that of other local artists as well. Bowling specializes in 3-D sculptures made of steel, glass, wood and even bone. Many of his pieces are representative of animals, mostly birds and fish. He says that he never goes looking for ideas or materials, he simply lets them come to him; many of his materials are things he finds on the side of the road or in dumpsters. Bowling sells many of his pieces to art galleries all over eastern North Carolina and his sculptures have become quite popular among art lovers.
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In these series of tales, the author tells a story about Will James, manager of the Macon House Hotel in 1888, waking to find a drunken man in bed with him. There is a story about a “feather renovator” in 1888 that has the town excited. In 1890, “White Caps” put up signs saying there was a wife beater in town and gave his name. They said if he didn’t leave soon he would receive a visitation. The guilty party was seen sneaking out of town. In 1886, there were several stories about barbers, merchants and tax collector, all in jail and doing business as usual out the jail windows. There was a funny tale from the Possumtown section of Chicod township in 1886 about how hunters mistook a turkey buzzard for a bear. And lastly, there is a story from 1887 of how Isadore Lichtenstein saved a friend from drowning by throwing him a large cake of soap.
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The Village of Yesteryear began with a farm tool display at the County Fair by Connor Eagles during the Bicentennial. The display grew and along with Les Turnage expanded to include old buildings. The village grew to a collection of 19 farm and village buildings from 1840 to 1940, includes a general store, post office, schoolhouse, log church, farm house, train depot, tobacco museum, blacksmith shop, transportation museum and numerous other farm buildings. The buildings were damaged by the flood in the fall of 1999, the Village of Yesteryear reopened after being restored with money from FEMA and the State of North Carolina. The American Legion and the Fair Board wants the Village removed from their property and the Village of Yesteryear Board of Directors is seeking money, land and help to preserve the Village.
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Very few people have heard of “Old Christmas” or “Little Christmas” which has been celebrated for over 250 years along the coastal regions from Swansboro to Currituck. “Old Christmas” began when Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 to replace the less accurate Julian Calendar. The new calendar made Christmas fall on December 25th instead of the old date of January 5th. The Outer Banks folks kept the old date to celebrate Christmas. The Outer Banks people are a superstitious lot and according to tradition a ship loaded with cattle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras in the 1870s. The only survivor was a black and white bull which swam ashore at Rodanthe. Named “Old Buck,” the bull sired many cows and became much loved. Each year on January 5th he was led through the villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo as a part of their Old Christmas celebration.
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30355
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Very few people have heard of “Old Christmas” or “Little Christmas” which has been celebrated for over 250 years along the coastal regions from Swansboro to Currituck. “Old Christmas” began when Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 to replace the less accurate Julian Calendar. The new calendar made Christmas fall on December 25th instead of the old date of January 5th. The Outer Banks folks kept the old date to celebrate Christmas. The Outer Banks people are a superstitious lot and according to tradition a ship loaded with cattle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras in the 1870s. The only survivor was a black and white bull which swam ashore at Rodanthe. Named “Old Buck,” the bull sired many cows and became much loved. Each year on January 5th he was led through the villages of Rodanthe, Waves and Salvo as a part of their Old Christmas celebration.
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30357
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Once called New Town, Farmville is more a conglomeration of several communities than one large town. Farmville grew out of Marlboro, Maysville, Grimmersburg, and Moye's Crossroads. Marlboro, once called Joynerville, was known for its marl beds. A post office operated sporadically from 1853 to 1891. Maysville was the home and settlement of Major Benjamin May and his descendants from the early 1700s until the 1860s. Grimmersburg was named for W.L. Grimmer. Moye's Crossroads was home to Alfred Moye and his descendants. The first building (1840) in Farmville was "a pig-raising spinster's" (Sallie Williams) log cabin. James Williams May (picture available) owned much of the land in Farmville. From 1867 to 1869, it grew into commercial importance. The Farmville community was incorporated as New Town in February 1872. As early as 1848, John H. Hines named the community Farmville. The post office for Farmville operated from July 27, 1848 until January 10, 1851. Open sporadically after 1868, it was finally reestablished and has been in operation since November 2, 1871. (Pictures are available for Josiah Barrett, James Williams May, Thomas E. Hill [22 years of age], and Rev. Peter Edmund Hines).
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Greenville needed a fire department for many years before 1884, when their leader, Captain S. O. Mason, organized the first company, the Rough and Ready Fire Company. This group of men consisted of forty black volunteers carrying their own buckets. In 1896, the Hope Fire Company was founded. The Greenville Fire Company followed this company in 1902. A united fire company did not occur until A. J. Griffin took over the Hope Fire Company in 1902. After this time, the Hope Fire Company and the Greenville Fire Company united. A. J. Griffin was the first of many fire chiefs of a united fire company in Greenville.
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30524
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Every autumn, Ruby and Leon Joyner sold pumpkins on their front lawn at their old home on Charles Blvd. for 25 years.
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The Imperial Tobacco Company building, built in the early 1900s of Dickinson Avenue, was at one time one of the Greenville tobacco markets largest buyers of tobacco for export. Abandoned by the company in 1978, the building, which covered two city blocks, was slated to be restored and renovated into a long awaited arts and community venue. In the midst of getting the beginning legal work finished, the building tragically burned down from arson. on April 17, 2008. In 2007, local artist Matthew Cook began a series of paintings using the Imperial Tobacco Company as his subject, painting views from all over town. The structure's fiery death became the subject of one last painting to end the series. The article gives a portfolio of some the paintings in the series.
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The following is taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing drawings of old Greenville buildings that have been razed. The drawing and short history depicts the R. L. Smith house on Evans Street; the National Guard Armory on Evans Street; the H. G. Edwards building on Evans Street; the Sycamore Hill Baptist Church on First Street; the Pitt General Hospital on Johnston Street; and the O'Hagan-Laughinghouse house on Pitt Street.
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The following is taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing drawings of old Greenville buildings that have been razed. The drawing and short history depicts the G. B. W. Hadley house on Evans Street; the Memorial Baptist Church on Greene Street; the Pitt County Jail on Third Street; the John L. Wooten House on Greene Street; the Farmers Bank on Dickinson Avenue; and the Charles S. Forbes house on Evans Street.
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C. Heber Forbes, a leading merchant in Greenville, renovated the old Anderson house on the corner of Tenth and Cotanche Streets into one of the most memorable houses in Greenville. Forbes went to St. Louis and bought the interior furnishings from a house owned by the Lambert family, makers of Listerine mouthwash. He purchased architectural details, mantels, mouldings, lighting, silk covered chairs, thick wool carpets and other French style furnishings and brought it all back to Greenville by train. The house was gutted and dissembled in 1976 and taken to Simpson, NC.
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The following is taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing drawings of old Greenville buildings that have been razed. The drawing and short history depicts the Woman's Club on Third Street; Evans Street 1914; Yellowley-Harrington house on Fourth Street; the Candlewick Inn; the Dr. Elbert A. Moye house; the old Greenville High School; and J. R. and J. G. Moye Merchandise Emporium on Evans Street.
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The following drawings by Roger Kammerer were taken from a placemat from the old Courtside Cafe showing the former Pitt County Court Houses and short history of each.
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The old Evans home, built 1910-11, for James Lewis Evans (1889-1970), was once located on Charles Blvd. beside the old Pitt Plaza (later Colonial Mall).
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