Carolina Journeys : Exploring the Trails of the Carolinas--both Real and Imagined

Plenty of publications provide information about the well-known tourist destinations in the Carolinas. Read them at your peril. They will co-opt your sovereignity, reduce you to a mere sightseer, and leave you with nothing to be discovered, Contents ......Page 4 Introduction to Carolina Journeys......Page 10 Union Square......Page 14 If It Hadn’a Been For Grayson......Page 19 Retracing the Great Indian Trading Path:Occaneechi Town to the Trading Ford......Page 25 Live Oaks with First Names......Page 31 Sassafras Mountain......Page 34 Monarchs of the Blue Ridge......Page 38 The Road To Adshusheer......Page 44 The Shut-In Trail......Page 53 History on a Stick......Page 59 Wolfe’s Angels......Page 63 A Cary Hash: Tiny Tank’s Tick Tour......Page 66 Encounters with the Shad Fish and the Shad Bones......Page 69 Barbecue Church, Cross Creek, and Flora Mac......Page 74 Into The Waccamaw......Page 81 Running the Scenic Crest of theSauratown Mountains......Page 87 Burnt Churches in South Carolina’s Lowcountry......Page 91 Stalking the Elusive Carolina Petroglyph......Page 94 Tarleton’s Tea Table......Page 100 The View from the Firetower on Flat Top Mountain......Page 103 Peter Ney......Page 106 The Night of the Shooting Stars......Page 110 The Forks of the Yadkin......Page 116 After the Olympics: Dr. Godiva PondersThe Future of Running in America......Page 120 Judaculla Rock......Page 122 The Bunker Brothers of Surry County......Page 126 The Silver Cup......Page 129 Hellespont Dreams: Cross-Training with Lord Byron......Page 134 Faith Rock......Page 138 Pausing Beside the King’s Highway......Page 142 The Bigfoot Chapel Hill Hash......Page 145 Going After Elisha......Page 147 The Dismal Swamp Canal......Page 153 De Soto Slept Here......Page 157 Meadowmont, Turtle-Handlingand the Havacow Hash......Page 163 Plenty of publications provide information about the well-known tourist destinations in the Carolinas. Read them at your peril. They will co-opt your sovereignty and reduce you to a sightseer. Carolina Journeys, on the other hand, is intended to tell stories of poorly known sites of interest in the Carolinas. Carolina Journeys speaks of history, culture and specific places--but we also hope our stories will help inspire our readers to perform their own weekend explorations to discover or rediscover the different trails, real and imagined, that can be found throughout the Carolinas