Record #:

22981

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

The author gives five interesting stories from Pitt County’s past. Back in 1966, slot racing was a big thing and enthusiasts would go to Howard Bodkin’s Music Store to race on his 112 ft. track in a back room. In December 1967, the singer, Ray Charles, was the first concert artist to appear in ECU’s new 7,000 seat Minges Coliseum. Tickets were $3.00 each to the general public and 50 cents for faculty and students. The third story gives interesting details about Alex Ogman, a former slave, who in 1940 had had nineteen wives and 40 children. The next story from 1789 describes a counterfeiter's gruesome punishment. And lastly there was an account concerning lost dynamite located under ECU’s YWCA Hut building, behind the Infirmary.

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Apr 7-20 1999, p5

Subject(s):

Greenville--History