Warning: this episode could upset some people. Alcohol, alcoholism, genocide, white supremacy, eugenics are all on display here. And they’re also all connected, at least in North Carolina history.

Real history for real people. This episode is about hating the criminal instead of the crime. And there’s a very real difference between the two.

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Find me someone that does not like the TV show Young Sheldon… Actually, don’t. I don’t want to meet that person.

It seems like a stretch, but there’s so much of a connection to eastern North Carolina, including Johnston county. Makes me love the show even more.

I absolutely love it when we uncover almost uniquely geological marvels that exist under our feet, and in our backyard. Johnston County, and East, North Carolina, are home to thousands of lakes. You’ve never seen them, you say? You would know if we had thousands of lakes? Well, let’s take a trip.

This is episode number 100…

Wow…

This episode gives us no new historical information. It is a look back at the most listened to episodes and some of the stuff that went into making them. It is commemorative episode of me just saying thank you.

No one would ever accuse central North Carolina of being a hotbed of science-fiction history. Yet, here we are.

There’s a place in Johnston County that’s older than the hills… Quite literally. It is completely out of place and a freak of nature.

This is the case where a tree likely change the course not just American, but also world history. In 1844, Henry Clay of Kentucky, sat under an oak tree in Raleigh and wrote a letter.

Hilery wanted a chance for his children. Legacy that they could build on. A legacy was made, but not by him and not the way that he wanted.

What’s in a name? Success.

To become a surveyor in colonial America made that you had made the big time. Your chance had come. It was up to people like John Hinton to take advantage of it.