With more and more of us looking at a depressed personal economy, we find ourselves having to readjust some of our horizons. One of those horizons is where we choose to go on vacation. For now, the idea of the Grand Canyon or Hawaii may still sound good, but simply be out of reach financially. ...
Being a native of North Carolina I like to read up on my state’s history. Part of North Carolina’s history is a few famous people who have been born here. Now it isn’t a huge state so the list of famous people born in North Carolina, is not large but it IS distinguished. I will ...
The Roanoke Colony was the first English settlement in America. It vanished. The mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke Island has baffled society for hundreds of years. A group of settlers disappeared into North America with hardly a trace and no one has seen concrete evidence of their existence in centuries. Many theories have ...
The colony of Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in America. Everyone learned in elementary school about Captain John Smith and the famous Indian Princess, Pocahontas. Yet, there was an earlier, important English colony in America that many people do not know about. Historians call it the lost colony. It was the colony of ...
The story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke is a great American mystery, one that endures to this day. Mentioning the word ‘Roanoke’ prompts a wide array of speculation, opinions, and, as to be expected, ghost stories. Before the settlement of famous Jamestown and tales of a native named Squanto helping the Pilgrims, before the ...
Roanoke Island is a place of history as the English first settled there in 1585. But the mystery of what happened to the one hundred settlers is still not solved. Sir Walter Raleigh had sent one hundred men to Roanoke Island as he saw it as a place where English warships could be repaired because ...
The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People N. Brent Kennedy with Robyn Vaughan Kennedy,The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America , (Mercer University Press, 1997), 180 pages, southern studies, $17.95 U.S. As an Appalachian myself, I have always been interested in history and genealogy, especially ...
When you think of beaches on the east coast it’s quite possible you think about Florida. It’s true that most of Florida is on some body of water, whether it’s the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico but head just a bit north and you’ll discover the beaches of the Carolinas on up to ...
Imagine returning to the location of what had previously been a burgeoning colony of over 100 settlers only to find the village abandoned with no trace of the occupants. This is what happened to John White at Roanoke Island. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the Roanoke Colony is one of the biggest mysteries in ...
Sir Walter Raleigh was born about 1554 near Budleigh Salterton in Devonshire, England. He was a soldier, poet, historian, scientist, and explorer. Raleigh’s birth near the sea turned his thoughts to adventure at an early age. He fought in the wars with France in his youth, and attended Oriel College in Oxford. He soon won ...
