Updated Website Coming Soon

We will have a new look at the end of August. We will have the same website address and we will still be a WordPress site but our look is going to change with a new theme. There are a few reasons for this change. One reason is for security. Newer WordPress themes need to…

100 plus 40 = something very special…

As always, click the pix for full size Forty years ago this week, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company put on the biggest picnic in North Carolina history. There was a stage at midfield in Groves Stadium, where Sound Generation, the Eliminators and the Roy Clark show performed. There were carnival rides and free food and…

100,000 served…

Last year, we got our 60,000th blog hit. That seemed like a lot at the time. But today, we hit 100,000...thank you all for making our blog one of the most read public library local history and genealogy sites in the nation. Below you will find links to some of our most popular blog entries…

70,459 is a lot more than 59,999…

On August 27, 2013 we posted a thank you to our loyal friends for having reached a total of 60,000 hits on our blog. See it here: 60,000 is one more than 59,999… A couple of weeks ago, we hit 70,000, and now the total is 70,459...we've averaged almost 2,500 hits per month since August and…

60,000 is one more than 59,999…

                       

Thank You Audra!

Thank you Audra for the many accomplishments you have made to the NC Roon during your short 15 month tenure and for being such a warm and friendly colleague. Thanks to you we now have a blog which celebrates its first anniversary this weekend. Thanks to you we have a locked cage to protect our…

S’il vous plaît un commentaire…

In the header of every post on this blog is a link that allows you to comment on that post. As shown in my previous post "War Hill Found," reader comments can contribute important information for us and other readers as well. We would like to see this blog become a place where such information…