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Originating from the local tradition of community sings, this festival promoted local folk and country traditions to help raise funds for local groups. One of the largest in the event's history took place on March 19, 1908. Sponsored by Ola Forbes at the Greenville Opera House, this event featured many local talents and several prominent folk songs. Not associated with the fiddlers' convention was another event that reflected Pitt County's folk heritage. On June 5, 1954, Greenville hosted at Wright Auditorium the Annual Statewide Folk Festival, which highlighted folk artists from throughout the State along with Pitt County's folk artists.
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23033
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Kammerer relates some of the older tales of the unexplained he has been told from Pitt County’s past. He talks about how Halloween was celebrated before the Civil War, with watch nights and vigils, church services and visits to family cemeteries. He relates tales told around a hot wood stove of strange events, spooks and hobgoblins. There are tales of ghost talkers that frighten both men and beasts. Along the river road north of Greenville there were sightings of a “Thing” or man running on all four s loping like a dog and a headless man, who passed wagons a short distance and then disappeared. Another “Thing” or hobgoblin was reported seen by some that either hitched a ride on a wagon, weighing it down such that the horse could not pull it, or one that rode on the wagon for a while and then disappeared. Some people could hear death “rings” before someone died, or saw spirits of the recently deceased. There is a story of a death bell that called people home.
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31803
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In 1908, B. F. Tugwell, of Farmville twsp., owned a huge gourd aged 100 years old that could hold a three year old child.
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33450
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34107
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Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly
(NoCar F253 .P57), Vol. XXIV Issue No. 3-4, August-November 2017,
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34130
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Pitt County Genealogical Quarterly
(NoCar F253 .P57), Vol. XXIV Issue No. 3-4, August-November 2017,
p17
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