Since we got out of D.C., I have started noticing more and more clues that we are now in The South. We passed out first gunsmith just north of Richmond, Virginia—a standoffish cinderblock building with no windows called “Charlie’s Place.” Just west of Red Cross, North Carolina, we passed a roadside store selling hunting perches. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina’
Divided against itself
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Albemarle, Civil War, generational gap, information age, North Carolina, Wal-Mart on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ghost towns
Posted in The Southeast, tagged ghost towns, jobs, Mobilgas, North Carolina, rural on June 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We continued east on NC-24/27, in search of a small town where we could get lunch and find some people to talk to. One thing we had noticed since we entered North Carolina was the scarcity of visible human life. Even when we had left the main roads to seek it out, all we would [...]
Gold mine
Posted in The Southeast, tagged Conrad Reed, gold-panning, Midland, North Carolina, Reed Gold Mine on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Exhausted from an opening stretch of short nights and long hauls, we decided to stick around the Charlotte area for an extra day and do some exploring. We needed destination to get us started, and so chose the Reed Gold Mine in Midland, the site of the first documented discovery of gold in America.
The museum [...]
