JoCoYo Joseph Smith
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- Society & Culture
One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to.
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them
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Young Sheldon and the Bohemian Girl
Find me someone that does not like the TV show Young Sheldon… Actually, don’t. I don’t want to meet that person.
It seems like a stretch, but there’s so much of a connection to eastern North Carolina, including Johnston county. Makes me love the show even more.
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Sitting on the Dock of the Bays
I absolutely love it when we uncover almost uniquely geological marvels that exist under our feet, and in our backyard. Johnston County, and East, North Carolina, are home to thousands of lakes. You’ve never seen them, you say? You would know if we had thousands of lakes? Well, let’s take a trip.
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The Dance-Looking Back
This is episode number 100…
Wow…
This episode gives us no new historical information. It is a look back at the most listened to episodes and some of the stuff that went into making them. It is commemorative episode of me just saying thank you.
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Plan 9
No one would ever accuse central North Carolina of being a hotbed of science-fiction history. Yet, here we are.
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Super Freak
There’s a place in Johnston County that’s older than the hills… Quite literally. It is completely out of place and a freak of nature.
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Tall Oak Tree
This is the case where a tree likely change the course not just American, but also world history. In 1844, Henry Clay of Kentucky, sat under an oak tree in Raleigh and wrote a letter.
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