Category: Eastern North Carolina trips
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Robeson County NC South of the Border, Feb 26-27, 2018
Robeson County NC does not get much good press. It is one of the poorest counties in North Carolina. Wikipedia describes its population as one third white, one third black, and one third Lumbee American Indian. The state of North Carolina recognizes the Lumbees as an official Native American tribe, although the federal…
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Kinston to New Bern NC, and back, Nov. 11-12, 2017
My wife Tootie’s sister Kathryn had been given a gift certificate to the restaurant Chef and the Farmer, one hundred twenty miles east of Chapel Hill, in Kinston. The three of us drove over there, ate a grand meal at the restaurant, and stayed one night at the Mother Earth Motor Lodge. We enjoyed it…
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Way Down East NC, April 1-2, 2017
Northeastern North Carolina, inland from the beach was the first part of North Carolina settled by Europeans. It is also the poorest, most rural, and most heavily African American part of the state. I had the bicycle in the trunk as I parked the car at about noon on a Saturday in the town…
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