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Drye Goods: Another Death in the Family at the Battle of Plymouth
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. Another Death in the Family at the Battle of Plymouth. Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-65. Shows Plymouth in April 1864. Our house, built around 1870, is indicated by the orange and red triangle near the center of the map. Plymouth’s location in northeastern North Carolina on the Roanoke River near the Albemarle Sound offered an important strategic advantage to whoever held it. So Union...Union t...
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Drye Goods: Greetings from the Summer of Love
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. Greetings from the Summer of Love. I was digging through a storage trunk the other day when I came across this odd little booklet –. The Hippy’s Handbook: How to Live on Love. By Ruth Bronsteen. I bought it for a buck or so in a thrift store in downtown Durham, North Carolina around 1990. 8220;For those who come to San Francisco/Summertime will be a love-in there. In the streets of San Francisco/Gentle people with flowers in their hair”. Leary’s pre...
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Drye Goods: A Day Of Deadly Surprises
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. A Day Of Deadly Surprises. Confederate General Alfred Iverson sent his. Troops into a deadly Union ambush during. The first day of the Battle of Gettysburg on. July 1, 1863. 8220;The first of July is a day of surprises,” said Gary Kross, a guide who took me on a personal tour of the Gettysburg battlefield a few years ago. “You’re never quite sure where your opponent will be coming from. Men are constantly coming in throughout the...North Carolina Infantry...
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Drye Goods: Too Many Deadlines, Please Stand By . . .
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. Too Many Deadlines, Please Stand By . . . Up to my ears in deadlines at the moment and can't even think about blogging. Hope to have a post ready for early October, when things have calmed down a bit. Please check back in a couple weeks. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Best of Drye Goods. Greetings from the Summer of Love. Young Love Cut Short by Hurricane. The Dark Side of Darrin and Samantha. The Irony of Smoking. Storm of ...
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Drye Goods: Take Me Out To The Ultra-Ball Game
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. Take Me Out To The Ultra-Ball Game. So Major League Baseball has thrown out a dragnet again and hauled in 14 players accused of using so-called performance enhancing drugs. And the biggest catch in this batch of alleged cheaters is the New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez, who has long been considered a certainty to join other immortals in the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. But here’s the thing about that ultra-libertarian perspective a...
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Drye Goods: A Letter from Petersburg
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. A Letter from Petersburg. 65279;. Engraving of the Battle of Petersburg is from the website Son of the South. The closest post office to my great-great grandfather Allison Dry’s farm would’ve been in Mount Pleasant, North Carolina, about five miles away. That’s where the letter telling him that his son, Daniel, had been killed at Petersburg, Virginia on June 17, 1864 would’ve been sent. It’s possible, perhaps likely, that one of Daniel’s ...Whenever ...
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Drye Goods: The dark side of Darrin and Samantha
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. The dark side of Darrin and Samantha. A couple of months ago I got hooked on “Mad Men,” the highly hyped drama on American Movie Classics that meticulously recreates the Madison Avenue of 1960. I didn’t find out about the show until it was about halfway through its first season, but I’ve gone out of my way to see all of the remaining episodes. Like Samantha, Betty Draper is blonde and beautiful, compassionate and caring, a loving wife and trusted friend&#...
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Drye Goods: Pickett's Charge: Smoking Shoes And Body Parts
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. Pickett's Charge: Smoking Shoes And Body Parts. The North Carolina monument at Cemetery Ridge in the Gettysburg. National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It’s been reported that the duel between Confederate and Union artillery at the Battle of Gettysburg 150 years ago today was so loud it could be heard in Pittsburgh, 140 miles to the west. Even some of the men who were going to try to kill the Confederates were impressed by the way their enemy a...
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Drye Goods: More self-promotion
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. I was profiled in the November-December issue of the Carolina Alumni Review, which is published by the University of North Carolina Alumni Association. The story is by CAR writer Susan Simone. You can read the story by clicking on the picture above. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Best of Drye Goods. Greetings from the Summer of Love. Young Love Cut Short by Hurricane. The Dark Side of Darrin and Samantha. The Irony of Smoking.
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Drye Goods: Marching Into History
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Old-Fashioned Journalism For Our Brave New World. The activities of Civil War soldiers often were announced by drum rolls. So maybe a drummer pounding the call for “Assembly” 150 years ago today sent my great-grandfather, William Crooks Dry, and hundreds of other Confederate soldiers in the 52. North Carolina Infantry scrambling into formation. In his 1882 Civil War memoir Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life. 8221; McCarthy wrote. “Where? Six months earlier and returned to duty with the 52. But that turned...