JoCoYo

JoCoYo

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JoCoYo episodes

  • Party like it’s 1899
    Johnston has not always been about how to get in and out of it as quickly as you can. It wasn’t always so easy to get to the North Carolina State fair and people need reasons to celebrate. Our celebrations tended to be much more local and, as such, disappeared as we became more mobile.
    13 min
  • Another Brick in the Wall
    Johnston's history of public education is pretty reflective of North Carolina's own history of public education...Except when it's not. Historically, Johnston may be (perhaps surprisingly) a little bit of outlier in public education in the south.
    Jumping into early colonial period, we examine why northern English colonies and southern English colonies just developed differently and how that early development influenced our value systems, especially regarding public education.
    27 min
  • Jackasses and Church Music
    Benson, NC, like most small towns in America, celebrates festivals that highlight and illustrate something from its past. Benson actually has two and it sorta has to be that way for the sake of its own soul.
    24 min
  • Running with the Devil
    This episode will delve into the brief history of Johnston county’s only ambassador to any country. It just so happens that it was also Nazi Germany.
    17 min
  • Welcome to JoCoYo!
    This is simply an introduction to the podcast. It gives you a reason why a podcast exists, where we plan to go with it, and why you should listen to it. If all politics is local, all history certainly is.
    2 min

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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.