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The Night Hank Williams Came to Town Jan 28, 2021

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How does a living legend when awards for a song 40 years after he died? What does that have to do with eastern North Carolina? Listen and you’ll see. It’s a good story.

How the East Was Won and Where It Got Us. Dec 28, 2020

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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.

The Sounds of Science/Wendell, Gee Dec 11, 2020

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What does an atomic bomb have to do with the grocery store and check out times? What are you talking about?? Yep, We’re in the middle and connecting it all together.

Run for Your Life Dec 03, 2020

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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.

Be True to Your School Nov 29, 2020

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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.

Look Homeward, Angel Nov 15, 2020

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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.

Run This Town Nov 13, 2020

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“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

Fight the Power Nov 09, 2020

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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.

Immigrant Song Nov 06, 2020

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"Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery" - Jack Paar "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" Here's to you, Rabils, Abdallas, Josephs, Davidians. For more on the topic after listening, check out NCSU's Khayrallah Center for Lebenese Studies

Burnin Down the House Nov 03, 2020

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Being accessible is a blessing and a curse. It can bring in money, ideas, friends, family. It can also get you killed. (At least) Three times, Johnston's location on travel routes resulted in war coming to it. Once was a massive explosion, another was a plane crash that narrowly (just a few miles) missed disastrous results, and the third...well...wow. That could have been pretty bad.

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