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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. ~ Walt Disney

North Carolina Historical Markers - Buggy Company

Buggys were built up until the 1920's.  Plant was used to make camo netting during WW II.

You can stay at Thomas B. Tyson's house now a B&B perhaps during the annual Buggy Festival

5 Interesting Things Best of the Week

NFL Suicide Pick:  Bears over Browns*

Aaron Rogers on pace for 4659 yards which would be a single season record


NFL Top 4:  NFC New Orleans Arizona AFC:  Indianapolis and Denver


Sweet Caroline (has the) Roadhouse Blues

Super bowl book bar none



*  Teams used so far: Baltimore, Chicago, Green Bay, Minnesota, New England, New Orleans, New York Giants, Pittsburgh,

Have a Good Read: Telex From Cuba

An interesting book that covers Cuba in the immediate pre Castro period.  Includes interesting sexual questions about the Castro brothers.

The book reads easily with a fairly fast moving plot.  The characters are good.  Along with this  there are some fairly literary and non linear parts that don't detract from the more mainstream aspects.

North Carolina Historical Markers - Plank Road @ Carthage

129 mile plan road passed through Carthage.

Friday Five

Iowa at its BCS peak

In F. Scott Fitzgerald's life time the Great Gatsby earned him $ 8397.00.  Today his heirs take in over $ 500,000  per year from it.

2 Spec Forces killed

Vince Young playoff QB

Sean May found ya!

NC Historical Marker Series

The Lafayette Escadrille was a French air force unit that featured pilots who voluntered prior to America's official participation in WW I.

McConnell was born in Chicago and attended the University of Virginia.  He spent about 5 years in Carthage as a businessman.  McConnell wrote a 1st person account of flying in WW I.