JoCoYo

JoCoYo

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JoCoYo episodes

  • Monk's Dream

    How does Johnston County keep producing music legends?

    What does this legend have to do with the Battle of Bentonville? In a word: Everything.

    19 min
  • Watching the McWheels
    This episode is about how the wheels go round and round, but these are not on the bus. 
    Well, that's not entirely true. 
    But these wheels are the wheels of history, so to speak, and how things tend to just happen over and over. In this episode, we find that Cary, the pre-Civil War South, and Old England are on a stage in which each must play a part. In this case, the same part.
    30 min
  • How the East Was Won and Where It Got Us.
    Being a trailblazer and Mapmaker has its costs. It may well get you into the history books. It may well get you killed, start the deadliest war in North Carolina’s history, As well as result in wars that establish a new country. Hello, John Lawson.
    19 min
  • Run for Your Life
    Johnston county has produced exactly 2 governors, even though it is one of the oldest counties in the state. One of them had to move away to become a governor of a different state. Depending on who you ask, he was either very good or very bad.
    17 min
  • Be True to Your School
    North Carolina politics, an affair, a tragedy on the University of North Carolina campus, the UNC/Duke rivalry, two area lakes, and one very controversial statue. This one is packed, y’all.
    17 min
  • Look Homeward, Angel
    American literature could’ve been very different had it not been for one of Johnston County’s own. Not really in a positive way. It appears that being a Rhodes scholar does not really qualify you to teach future literary giants.
    16 min
  • Run This Town
    “Bloom where you are planted. “Ignorance is sin.” The here and now are more important than the elsewhere. These maxims define the Coates family , whose labor kept this county afloat in the years it needed them the most. Later, the state and nation came to benefit from their service
    16 min
  • Fight the Power
    Tractorcades, High Knockers, and imaginary explosives. Feeling like a rebel? Had enough? Crank up a John Deere or Super A...or not. Esse quam videri, y’all.
    21 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.