by mcncdmin | Aug 13, 2019 | Economics, People
This article features recollections of Gary Forbes of Mocksville, NC, the son of Paul and Elsie Burleson Forbes. He was born in 1948 in Spruce Pine at Williams Clinic. My earliest memories are of living in the Hamme Tungsten Queen Mine Camp in Vance County, NC,...
by mcncdmin | Aug 6, 2019 | Economics, History
On June 17, 1955, the Museum of NC Minerals was officially opened at Gillespie Gap with North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges presenting the museum to United States National Park Service Director Conrad L. Wirth. The museum was a joint project between the state of...
by mcncdmin | Jul 28, 2019 | People
In the June 1958 issue of National Geographic, he was given the title of “Tiffany of the Hills.” Tiffany and Company began and continues as a fine jewelry distribution business in New York City. The real story, as you will see, makes that label a shallow substitute...
by mcncdmin | Jul 25, 2019 | People
In March 1960, I was in the last quarter of general practice training at North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Dr. Arthur E. Gouge came to Baptist Hospital as a patient and also as a recruiter. He was about 80 years old and had been “doctoring” in...
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