by mcncdmin | Aug 20, 2019 | People
At least three different versions of Charlie’s capture, escape, and eventful walk home from South Carolina during the Civil War have been gleaned from reliable local sources, including Harvey J. Miller. None of those sources indicate why Charlie joined the Union Army...
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 | 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...
by mcncdmin | Jul 16, 2019 | Communities, People
Judge Heriot Clarkson of Charlotte and his family were the developers of the resort community of Little Switzerland in 1910. The community between Grassy Mountain and Chestnut Ridge had been settled by several generations of hardy pioneers by the time Clarkson arrived...
by mcncdmin | Jul 8, 2019 | People
Harvey James Miller was known to many as Harvey J., perhaps to differentiate him from another Harvey Miller that lived at the same time. He also was known as “the Man with a Thousand Stories;” however, the label “Sage,” given by Ashton Chapman, is more appropriate for...
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