Record #:

23675

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Kammerer puts together a variety of interesting stories that include the story from 1915, when a daredevil climbed to the top of the dome of the Pitt County Court House using only his hands and feet. The story from 1871 of a man named Edward Brown who hid in the swamps to avoid the draft in the Civil War. He was discovered in animal skins without the knowledge the war had ended years before. In 1925, a meteor crashed on the farm of J. E. Jones near St. John’s Church. A meteor crashed near Farmville, NC and Hookerton, NC in 1924. The fragment recovered near Farmville was given to the State Museum. In 1893, Larry Heilbroner was the Greenville weather observer and displayed weather flags on a flagpole at the newspaper office. There is a tale from 1875 about how General Bryan Grimes kept snakes out of his yard. In 1967, an Atlantic Christian student had an encounter with a UFO near Farmville, NC.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. 28 Issue 8, Apr 14-28 2010, p4

Subject(s):

Pitt County--History