What would you say about a person that practices medicine without a license, becomes a medical pioneer in two different ways, uses that fame to get elected to Congress from 2 different districts, holds off attacks from 2 different countries and starts 2 colleges? You may say that he does everything in twos. You may call this person the subject of a Forrest Gump style movie. I call him Dr. Calvin Jones.

Mr. Jones and Me

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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Mr. Jones and Me

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