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Before we get into this week’s Willie’s Adventures about him and Patches stumbling on a likker still, a little background on moonshining might be helpful.

Seems around the fall of each year older churches would have homecoming and revival services. Why those evening services would end up lasting a full week. Most churches like Bethel, where Wille attended, would have a guest speaker and most of the time he would stay at the regular preacher’s…

You were introduced to Willie Hudson in last week’s column. We found out where he was born and lived his family as well and how his Pa thought that Willie had a curse. In this week’s column we’ll explore more about Willie, his family, friends and about the culture surrounding…

In the late eighteen and early nineteen hundreds a lot of folks in the south still lived on small farms. The south’s economy was slowly coming back following the Civil War. Some families still farmed the land that had been handed down for generations while some had lost their land…

Last Monday July 6th started out to be a regular Monday morning for my wife and I. We enjoyed the 4th of July with fireworks and hot dogs but were unprepared for the excitement that was still to come that very Monday evening and night.

After the Revolutionary Battle at Guilford Courthouse near Greensboro, N.C. Lord Cornwallis’ Army, being low on men and supplies, he marched his men toward Wilmington N.C. All the while General Nataniel Greene’s Continental Army gave chase but decided to go into S.C. to destroy any advances the British had made…

In recent wars men and women fought along-side of each other in battle but in earlier times men mostly were in combat. In fact, it was forbidden for a known woman to serve in combat during the Revolutionary War on either side, but some did without knowledge of their commanders.

Understandably, not everyone is a nerd like me and does not voluntarily devote entirely too much time to analyzing the people around them, looking for what makes them tick.

ELLERBE — Last Tuesday night, April 7, over 80 people gathered at the Sandhills Rod and Gun Club in Ellerbe for the 24th Annual Wild Game Cookoff. They were to taste and judge some of the best prepared wild games, berries and vegetables that nature can provide.

Without realizing it, I’ve grown older. I don’t enjoy the same things that I did when I had just reached adulthood. Instead of spending my time locked into a video game or doom scrolling through TikTok, I find myself wanting to connect with real life. I want to go to…

First there were three, then five, now eight missing top UFO scientists—and it’s not just this news that has conspiracy theorists reaching for their tin foil hats—there have also been mysterious sounds and lights in our night sky. Not to mention President Trump has ordered full alien disclosure and former…