Record #:

14546

Author(s):

Goerch, Carl

Abstract:

Do you know the name of the first person in the world who ever made a parachute jump from a hydroplane or an airplane? She was a woman and her name is Mrs. Harry Brown; she is known as Tiny Broadwick and narrow escapes from death are too numerous for her to recall.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 27, Dec 1945, p3-5, f

Subject(s):

Parachuting; Skydivers--North Carolina--Biography; Brown, Georgia Thompson (Tiny Broadwick), 1893-1978

Record #:

14547

Author(s):

Moore, Louis T.

Abstract:

Getting drunk, using profanity and fishing on Sundays were some of the things which were sternly forbidden during the colonial period of North Carolina's history.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 27, Dec 1945, p12, 20

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Record #:

14548

Author(s):

Allhands, William A.

Abstract:

Originally there were the buffalo trails in western North Carolina. Then came the paths made by Indians, and finally the rough roads built by early settlers.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 13 Issue 27, Dec 1945, p26-27, f

Subject(s):

Trails; Roads--History; Roads--North Carolina, Western