JoCoYo

JoCoYo

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JoCoYo episodes

  • Super Freak
    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.
    12 min
  • Tall Oak Tree
    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.
    19 min
  • Legacy
    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.
    20 min
  • Coming over: Hinton, Part two
    For poor and poverty stricken young English man, making the trip over to America in the 17th and 18th centuries Was full of risk and danger. Sometimes, those are the only things that will work
    9 min
  • Doctor, Doctor
    Death at an early age was fairly common and colonial and early North Carolina’s history. So were multiple marriages as a result of the death of a spouse. It’s because it didn’t have doctors back then, right? Wrong.
    15 min
  • The forgotten ones
    For all of our talk about colonial leaders and shapers of North Carolina history, they were millions of people who are not spoken about have not been spoken about and without hermit their contributions could not have happened.
    13 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.