Coca-Cola, Pepsi, RC Cola, moonshine, and menthol. Before the FDA, your medicine depended on your location. If it didn't kill you, it might make you stronger. It might also kill you.
This is the story of one Lunsford Richardson. of Selma, NC.

Coca-Cola, Pepsi, RC Cola, moonshine, and menthol. Before the FDA, your medicine depended on your location. If it didn't kill you, it might make you stronger. It might also kill you. This is the story of one Lunsford Richardson. of Selma, NC.

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One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to. 
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them

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One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England. This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to. We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them

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