Record #:

22865

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

These tales include the story of how J. A. Hyman found a fish fallen from the sky in 1894. Of how Mrs. E. B. Higgs lost her diamond ring in a coffee bag in 1894 and later ground it up in the coffee mill. J. L. Hearne had a comedy of terrible successive household accidents in 1898. In 1899, a one horse medicine man rolled into Greenville and attracted with his stuffed rattler, and a live coach whip snake and woodchuck. A 1899 description of the first desk phone in Greenville owned by W. B. Wilson. An Ola Forbes tale about a deer hunt gone wrong from 1898. And lastly, the unusual feats of strength by a woman at the Opera House, who could not be moved by any means and could lift three men at once.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Feb 14-27 1990, p6

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History