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Propaganda 

By: Edward Bernays 

Propaganda, an influential book written by Edward L. Bernays 

in 1928, incorporated the literature from social science and 

psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of 

public communication. Propaganda explored the psychology behind 

manipulating masses and the ability to use symbolic action and 

propaganda to influence politics, effect social change, and lobby for 

gender and racial equality. Edward Bernays was an Austrian-American 

pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred 

to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”.Bernays was 

named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century 

by Life. His books show how easily crowds are manipulated. The 

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COA Hosts Reception in Currituck County 

Currituck, NC – College of The Albemarle (COA) 

hosted a reception at Sanctuary Vineyards in 

Jarvisburg on Thursday, March 5, giving community 

members the opportunity to meet COA’s 

new president, Dr. Jack Bagwell. The reception 

served as a follow-up event to the tour of Currituck 

County businesses that was coordinated 

in January. The tour allowed Dr. Bagwell to travel 

through the area, meet with business owners 

and discuss future opportunities for COA and its 

students. 

Paul O’Neal, COA Board of Trustees member, 

provided the introduction at the reception. Dr. 

Bagwell spoke about his time at COA thus far 

and thanked those in attendance for their support 

of the college. Student speaker, Dana Weeks, is 

currently enrolled in the Computer-Aided Drafting 

Technology program at COA-Currituck. In her 

remarks, she shared why she decided to go back 

to school and her experience in the program at 

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democratic society. Those who manipulate 

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How and Why to Keep Kids on a Schedule During School Closures 

(StatePoint) School closures have forced families nationwide 

to readjust to the current reality. However, a sense 

of structure is important for children’s developmental 

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the following tips: 

• Just because there is no formal school day doesn’t 

mean kids should sleep in or stay up late at night. Keep 

the same bedtimes, wake-up routines and mealtimes you 

always maintained during a regular school week. Doing 

so will bookend the mornings and evenings with a sense 

of normalcy. 

• Mimic a school day to the best of your ability. Use the 

distance-learning tools your child’s teachers offer as well 

as other educational apps and resources to have kids 

focus on different school subjects. This will help break 

up the day into little chunks just as would happen in the 

classroom. Be sure to build in time for art projects, exercise 

and music. Most importantly, don’t forget “recess.” 

If possible, allow children to play in the backyard where 

they can socially distance from neighbors, or set up an 

area of your home for playtime. 

• Evenings are a good time to relax and unwind together. 

Play board games, watch your children’s favorite movies 

or even use the many resources available online to enjoy 

a virtual walking tour of a museum, botanical garden or 

zoo. This is also a good time to allow children to connect 

with their friends using video chat or with family members 

they are not currently able to see in-person. 

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or apps during particular hours of the day. Because this 

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be giving them the comfort of a routine. To learn more or 

download, visit OurPact.com. 

During these challenging times, it can be tempting to let 

your family routine fly out the window. By using new tools 

such as distance-learning programming and schedule 

management apps, you can keep kids to a schedule that 

makes them ultimately happier and healthier. 

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Elizabeth City Chamber News 

by: Holly Staples 

Dear Friends, 

As we’ve spent the week talking to our members, we’re hearing that you 

want to help. You are all looking to support your peers, your community 

and, of course, your families and loved ones during these unprecedented 

times. In addition to support, our business community is still seeking the 

camaraderie and shared experience that sustains us in less trying times. 

We are working to continue to create these opportunities that are perhaps 

more important now than ever. 

We are working every day to share the good work that you are doing. We 

know that our members consistently lead by example, and this situation 

is no different. We would love to hear from you about what you are 

doing, how you are working, or how you are helping others during this 

time. Share with us by tagging us on Facebook or emailing us. We really 

miss seeing you at our events and out and about in the community, so 

please contact us! Sharing our experiences with each other will help us 

to weather this crisis. Sharing our experiences with each other will help 

us to weather this crisis. This includes your creative and lighthearted moments 

– laughter is good for our mental and physical health. 

In the absence of being able to interact with each other face to face, it’s 

important that we pick up the phone to talk with one another and use 

social media to stay connected with each other, especially with your 

business to business contacts. Many of you are on the front lines and 

essential to our daily lives. You are open for business and planning for 

recovery. The help you are providing will ensure recovery is faster and 

more robust. I have been heartened to witness our members serving as 

community warriors. Thank you for everything you are doing. 

The health and safety of our members, community, and partners is our 

highest priority during this unprecedented time. Your Chamber team has 

been actively following COVID-19 developments, and we are evaluating 

actions daily, to best identify how to serve you. We are committed to 

keeping you informed about resources to help keep you and your employees 

safe and healthy, as well as making you aware of resources that will 

help your business recover. 

We are all pulling in the same direction, and we know that we will emerge 

stronger and healthier in the end. Please continue to let us know how we 

can help you. Stay safe, healthy, and connected! Know that your Chamber 

will be with you every step of the way. 

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Health and Nutrition Strategies For 

Cancer Survivors and Everybody Else 

Warren Green is a 30 year member of the Institute of Food 

Technology, A HAACP (hazard analysis critical control point) 

Instructor with a Bachelors degree in Nutrition Science. 

WHAT’S IN YOUR DIET? 

Last month I touched on this coronavirus pandemic. 

Yes, I called it a pandemic because its exceeded 

many global borders and its far beyond an epidemic. 

The infected country’s that are handling this pandemic 

have more efficient systems then the United States. Our 

system is incoherent, and inept. 

I’ve been sounding the alarm that our government has 

been permitting substances that depress our immune 

system, and there will be a day of reckoning. 

This outbreak refreshed my memory of a prior article that 

reinforces my position. The article was about antibiotics 

in poultry and how they weakened the immune system, 

and was published 2014 , in the Albemarle Tradewinds 

magazine. Here’s a paragraph from the article: 

(We now have the phenomena of antibiotic resistance as 

a result of antibiotic overuse. What do you do if an exotic 

organism such as MERS enters the country? What does 

the Healthcare/Medical community have in its arsenal to 

address a potential epidemic/pandemic if antibiotics are 

not effective). 

Now we have this thing. So, what is a virus anyway? 

And, how is it possible that this deadly virulent coronavirus 

got out of hand? A virus is an infectious agent, a 

parasite, that replicates in its host. Your immune system 

determines the extent of the damage. This virus is new, 

or novel, so your immune system won’t recognize it. 

There’s no cure, so the only thing that protects you is 

your healthy immune system. 

Removing age and underlying illness from the equation, 

how do you know whether you are one of those folks 

with a weakened immune system? The answer is, you 

don’t know until you become ill. 

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at warreng9241@hotmail.com 

Let’s drill down a bit there. If you consume animal 

based products (cheese,butter, meat, poultry,etc.) that 

don’t have a “no antibiotics” disclaimer, you are consuming 

antibiotics and weakening your immune system. 

Pesticides, like glyphosate, also weakens your immune 

system. Glyphosate is legal in any processed food that’s 

not labeled organic, including beer. 

If you’re self-quarantining use the time to reboot by 

eating healthy, and avoiding antibiotics. Your immune 

system needs Vitamin D to fight off viruses. If you don’t 

get a lot of sun, supplement your diet with tuna,salmon 

or mackerel. Red wine is a great antioxidant that 

protects against viral damage, and you might want to 

get 7-9 hours of sleep for repair of essential functions 

including your immune system. 

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N o r t h e a s t e r n 

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When Hurricane Dorian reared her head in 2019, 

the SPCA pulled out the sandbags, made sure 

all equipment was on high ground, discussed staffing 

logistics, prepared our volunteers and began reaching 

out to foster providers. 

Luckily, we did not have the damage that was expected 

and as soon as Dorian subsided, we were business as 

usual. 

While preparing for this potential crisis, we discovered 

the willingness of our community to do whatever was 

necessary to help the SPCA. 

The current situation is of a much different nature 

than a hurricane and one that will have a far-reaching 

effect on our region. It will most certainly impact the 

animal shelters throughout our area as well. Funding 

will decrease, intakes will increase, and adoptions will 

slow down. Our rescue partners will be overwhelmed, 

and services such as low cost spay/ neuter, that have 

been suspended, means more pregnant animals. With 

unemployment increasing daily, the care and feeding 

of animals often becomes an added burden and owner 

surrenders will increase. We will continue to get in stray 

cats and dogs, and since it is kitten season, our shelter 

will soon be filled with pregnant cats and nursing kittens. 

In other words, our shelters may be overwhelmed 

beyond capacity. 

It paints a bleak picture but there are a few positive 

actions that our community can take to help. If possible, 

continue providing food and supplies to your local 

shelter. Before surrendering your pet to the shelter, 

By: Kim Parrish, Board of Directors, 

SPCA of Northeastern NC 

please call the SPCA to discuss ways in which we can 

help you maintain your pets at home. Become a foster 

provider: Foster families have always been a lifeline for 

our animals and for those who are home, having an animal 

greatly reduces stress and combats the loneliness 

of isolation. Fostering also reduces space in the shelter 

and helps staff care for those who are not able to foster 

out. Contact your local shelter to find out how you can 

become a foster provider. 

These are very uncertain times. We all must do what 

we can to help each other and to ensure that our families 

and neighbors are taken care of. I know we can 

find room in our hearts, and homes to look after those 

who, by no fault of their own, have become victims as 

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It is lawn season again and I was hit in the nose with 

a familiar scent as I navigated my lawn mower over 

a damp area of the yard. It always takes me by surprise 

at the beginning of each grass-manicuring initial run 

but what a good surprise it is. It is my old friend mint. 

The smell cuts through pollen-affected sinuses and 

overwhelms the aroma of the nearby blooming wisteria 

vines. There are many types of mint used throughout 

the world but there is only one species of the Mentha 

family that is native, but not exclusive, to North America. 

The common name is a very uninspired wild mint but it 

packs a respectable punch when expressing its volatile 

oils upon being crushed. Mint has been used as a food 

enhancement and for medicinal uses throughout history, 

both ancient and modern. Native Americans incorporated 

mint to preserve and season foods. It was an aid to a 

host of maladies from upset stomach, flatulence, respiratory 

distress and was even used to treat the bite from 

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Monks used mint leaves to clean their teeth and freshen 

their breath. That practice fortunately continues today 

in the use of menthol-flavored toothpastes, mouthwashes 

and breath sweetening candies. Locally, the more 

familiar mint preparations include mint jelly, mint syrup 

and the southern indulgence known as mint julep. Menthols, 

extracted from the mint plant, are used to achieve 

the ever-pleasant cooling effect to ease muscular aches 

and pains. Be aware that both cultivated and wild mints 

as a rule are ill-behaved, not easily contained, and will 

run rampant as long as growth conditions are suitable. 

If you plant mint in your garden, chances are it will be 

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many changes in the ways and places folks could by their 

Life Insurance. Mostly back then, there were around 100 

insurance agents that worked out of offices all around the 

city and downtown.. These agents were known as Debit 

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knock on doors of homes weekly or monthly and collect insurance 

money from families and mark their receipt books 

and all they sold back then was basic BURIAL insurance. 

Around $ 250 or $500 or a large plan was 

$1000.. And figure each small town around here and all 

over the state had many of their own small ins. companies 

and many, many agents!! But when the 1980’s came, these 

small companies slowly were bought up by bigger companies.. 

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local agent who knew them and could help them pick and 

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or a website to trust their financial security to!! Now 

there are only a few of us regular agents still visiting folks, 

giving them the one on one advice that they really need 

Jakes Outdoor Adventures 

For those of you who follow me on Facebook or through 

my monthly article in Albemarle Tradewinds most of 

you know that I am a senior at NC State in Raleigh. I am 

very happy to report to you that I will be graduating next 

month on May 9, 2020, with a BS Degree in Parks, Recreation 

and Tourism Management. I have had a great time at 

State and I have learned a great deal and met many great 

people during this journey. I will only get one short day of 

celebration because on May 11, I will begin my new job 

bright and early as the First Mate on the charter boat The 

Marauder based out of Wanchese Marina. Captain Troy 

Crane is the Owner/Captain of Marauder Sportfishing. I 

am very fortunate to be able to start my career under such 

an experienced and well respected Recreational Charter 

Captain. I am lucky to be based on a boat that offers all of 

the different types of fishing the Outer Banks has to offer. 

I will get the opportunity to fish near-shore and offshore. 

I look forward to making sure families and guests get to 

experience what a great fishery we have here on the Outer 

Banks. If you are headed to the OBX for spring and summer 

come and book a fishing trip with The Marauder and 

make some memories with your family and friends. 

and someone to come to, face to face, to answer questions 

or handle a death claim.. Now, its all mostly done on line, 

not knowing and not really caring what kind of advice they 

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Two more tools you can use is a wide brimmed hat with 

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Chowanoke History 

by Duvonya Chavis 

The United States government signed nearly 525 treaties 

with Indian Nations between 1778 and 1871. Many were 

ratified by Congress and within these treaties, Indian Tribes 

often ceded vast amounts of territory to the government in 

exchange for peace, various fishing and hunting rights, and 

for protection by the US government. Yet reality is that the US 

government broke every single treaty made with the Indian 

Nations. While various aspects of many Treaties, such as 

fishing and hunting rights were upheld from time to time, the 

United States has not fully honored one agreement in its 250 

year history and has outright broken many. Surprisingly, treaties 

are considered by the US government to be the supreme law of 

the land. 

Consistently breaking treaties speaks volumes about the character 

of one who carelessly pens a law with little intent to honor 

it. For example, a closer look at the several treaties the US 

made with the Cherokee Nation prior to their removal to Oklahoma 

leaves one to wonder why treaties were made in the first 

place. Two treaties established and affirmed land boundaries 

between the US and the Cherokee Nation, namely the Treaty 

of Hopewell in 1785 and the Treaty of Holston in 1791. Subsequent 

treaties continued to affirm “forever” those land boundaries. 

Then beginning in 1798, new treaties were made forcing 

the Cherokee to cede land in exchange for protection by the 

government, to allow settlers to move onto their lands. When 

gold was discovered in Cherokee territory, things got worse as 

Georgia began to challenge the sovereignty of the Cherokee 

Nation and attempted to usurp its laws over the Cherokee in 

order to have control of their territory. The Cherokee Nation 

filed a lawsuit. While the US Supreme Court declared that they 

did not have jurisdiction to hear Cherokee Nation v Georgia, 30 

U.S. (5 Pet.) 1 (1831), Justice Marshall took the opportunity to 

opine that tribes were “domestic dependent nations,” resembling 

that of a “ward to its guardian.” A concurring Judge used 

derogatory terms that were unnecessary and blatantly false to 

describe Indian tribes. Although Justice Marshall reversed this 

opinion a year later in Worchester v Georgia, 31 U.S. (6 Pet.) 

515 (1832) when he ruled that the Cherokee Nation was indeed 

a sovereign Nation and immune from Georgia’s laws, the 

Court’s decision in Cherokee Nation v Georgia (1831) propelled 

the impending fate of American Indians on a national scale. 

Consequently, the reversal sparked a constitutional crisis as 

Georgia initially refused to abide by the Supreme Court ruling, 

as President Andrew Jackson openly disrespected Justice 

Marshall’s 1832 decision, and as South Carolina took the liberty 

to openly challenge and defy the US government on a separate 

issue. 

This culminated in enforcing the terms of the Indian Removal 

Act of 1830 and another treaty was made with the Cherokee 

Nation in 1835 called the Treaty of New Echota. This treaty 

ceded all Cherokee territory in the east to the US government 

in exchange for new territory in the west, now known as eastern 

Oklahoma. While the Cherokee Council did not approve of the 

treaty, the US Senate approved it and subsequently began the 

forced removal of Indians on a national level. 

Although breaking the Treaty of Hopewell was not an isolated 

incident, it had far reaching consequences on the future destiny 

of American Indian tribes in the east, as well as those living in 

the west. The overall goal was European expansion while the 

underlying goal in the 1831 Supreme Court decision was to 

legally subjugate the Cherokee Tribe and all other tribes in the 

future, in order to prevent their governments from usurping US 

governments. This became highly evident in case law decisions 

that became a pendulum to either affirm or take away the rights 

of American Indians over the next two centuries, depending on 

the political climate at the time, as Federal Courts continued to 

cite Cherokee Nation v Georgia (1831) rather than Worchester 

v Georgia (1832). 

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tournament under the auspices of the GPro Tour, 

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Art in the Albemarle Area 

Welcome to April!! Spring in the air and art shows 

will be very prominent in our area, provided the 

social isolation time is over. This leads to the concepts 

of what can we do, as artists, to get through this isolation 

period and what others can do. Let’s begin with a 

list: 

1. Organize your materials, this will take more time 

than you think, especially if your art space is like mine. 

Declutter everything, organize your brushes (according 

to length, shapes, purpose, and which types of paints 

they will be used for. 

2. Organize your paints, oil, acrylic, watercolor, paint 

pens, etc, 

3. Place your canvases in order according to sizes 

and textures, and types for certain styles of painting. 

4. Clean all of your materials after your organization is 

complete. 

5. Organize your reference materials, such as, photos, 

ideas and concepts, sketches, future paintings. 

6. Make a list of new materials you want to pick up or 

order. 

7. Research concepts and painting styles you want to 

attempt, the internet is a great source for this. 

by: Talmage Dunn 

8. Learn what each brush and strokes in your arsenal 

of equipment will allow you to do. 

9. Paint, paint, and paint some more, prepare for 

opportunities to show your work. 

10. If you have always wanted to attempt getting 

into art activities, now is the prime time to make that 

attempt. It may relax your mind during this trying time 

for each of us. 

I hope you will step foreword on your own journey into 

painting and creating your own artwork. Perhaps you 

are thinking that you need a little more formal instruction 

to get motivated. That is not necessarily true.I was 

researching the internet and there are a plethora of 

teaching classes that can aid you in getting started . 

When this isolation period is over, there are paint parties, 

kids art, birthday parties, and many more places. 

The studio 511 Art and Soul hosts its own art clubs. 

There are a myriad of supplies available and provided 

in order to get you started in painting. There are programs 

for mixed media, watercolors, acrylics, oils, and 

various art activities. Please visit the Studio facebook 

page for more information. 

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com or by phone 252-267-5437. Talmage Dunn, Artist. 

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Easter 

T 

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the end of this month (April), the world will be celebrating 

Easter. 

For most members of the Christian community, Easter will 

be celebrated on the twenty-first. There will be joyful music, 

perhaps a cantata, sunrise services, and a prayer breakfast on 

the day before. Easter hymns will be sung, like “Up From the 

Grave He Arose.” 

But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, Easter will be celebrated 

a week later on April 28th. What is more, Easter is known only 

as “Pascha,” which is the ancient Greek Christian word for 

“Passover.” 

Perhaps for others, Christmas may be the chief celebration of 

the entire year. But in Orthodoxy, Pascha reigns supreme. It is 

the “Feast of Feasts,” and shines like the sun throughout the 

entire Church Year. 

In fact, every single Divine Liturgy (our word for “Mass,” or 

“morning worship service”) is rooted in Pascha. And the only 

reason why all Christians (not just Orthodox) worship on 

Sunday morning is because Sunday is the Day of the Resurrection. 

Saturday, the “seventh day” or the Sabbath, is the day 

of rest, but the Lord’s Day is mystically known as the “Eighth 

Day,” the day of Resurrection that transcends and shines into 

all space and time. 

Eastern Orthodoxy is truly and thoroughly a Paschal religion. 

St Gregory the Theologian, a fourth century bishop of Constantinople 

(now known as Istanbul in Turkey), once delivered 

these beautiful, glorious words on Easter Day many years ago. 

They continue to grow in power and poetry: 

The Lord’s Pascha, Pascha, and again I will say Pascha, to 

the honor of the Trinity. It is to us the feasts of feasts, and the 

festival of festivals, as far exalted above all — not only for 

those who are merely human and crawl on the ground but also 

for those who are of Christ himself and are celebrated for him 

— as the sun is above the stars. Beautiful indeed yesterday 

[i.e., the night between Holy Friday and Holy Saturday] were 

our splendid array and procession of lights, in which we were 

united both privately and publicly, almost every sort of people 

and every rank, lighting up the night with plentiful fires. This is 

a symbol of the great light, both the heavenly light that makes 

fires from above … and equally the light above the heavens 

… in the Trinity, by which every light has been produced, 

divided off from the undivided light and honored. Yet today is 

more beautiful and more illustrious, inasmuch as yesterday’s 

light was a forerunner of the great light’s rising, and as it were 

a kind of pre-festal gladness. But today we celebrate the 

resurrection itself, not as still hoped for but as having already 

occurred and gathering the whole world to itself. (Oration 45) 

If you ever get a chance, come and visit an Orthodox Church 

on Pascha (this year on April 28th). You’ll feel the joy and see 

glory. 

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Museum of the Albemarle 

Visitors often wonder what goes behind the scenes 

at the Museum of the Albemarle. We are currently 

working on upcoming exhibits and programming related 

to those exhibits that are set to open later this year 

and early next year. Staff is diligently working on: The 

Day the Lights Came On, Women Breaking Barriers 

in Northeastern North Carolina, Blacksmithing in the 

Albemarle, Khirbet El Maqatir: A Journey Through the 

Bible, and rotation of artifacts in our main gallery Our 

Story. 

In the collections department, an artifact must go 

through certain stages in order to be exhibited. Once 

an artifact has been slated for exhibit, the first stage is 

to determine how the artifact will be interpreted while 

on exhibit. For example, should an artifact be bright 

and shiny as if it has never been used, or should show 

wear and use? Is the intention to represent a certain 

person, time period, or the story of an event? 

Next, photographs are taken of the artifact from every 

angle. After photography, the step-by-step process 

of conservation/stabilization is developed on paper 

before any work is started. Sometimes the process 

is very simple where simple cleaning with clear water 

and then dried is all that is needed. Other times, a 

little more elbow grease is required, mending is needed, 

deterioration needs to be addressed, and in some 

instances outside conservation is required. 

By Wanda Lassiter, Curator, Museum of the Albemarle 

After the process is complete, the artifact is photographed 

again to show the results of the treatments 

performed. Whether the artifact is a part of our 

collection or on loan to us for a particular exhibition, 

each artifact is different and unique, thereby requiring 

special attention. 

The Museum of the Albemarle is located at 501 S. Water 

Street, Elizabeth City, NC. (252) 335-1453. Hours 

are Monday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Closed Sundays and State Holidays. Serving Bertie, 

Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, 

Hyde, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, 

and Washington Counties, the museum is the northeast 

regional history museum of the North Carolina 

Division of State History Museums within the N.C. Department 

of Cultural Resources, the state agency with 

the mission to enrich lives and communities and the 

vision to harness the state’s cultural resources to build 

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Hello everyone! I hope this article finds you in good 

health and safe during this unusual time of social 

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outdoorsmen, do during this period. Several ideas come 

to mind. 

1. Go through each piece of equipment in your home 

inventory that relates to your bowhunting, bow fishing, 

trapping and firearms activities. 

2. Check for loose fittings and compromised tree 

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skills up! 

4. Check your safety equipment (this can never be 

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5. Review your game laws 

6. Turkey season is on the horizon, pretty much an 

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As a result of the challenges posed by the coronavirus, the 

Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center 

cancelled the annual Music & Dance Festival scheduled for April 

and closed all on-site activities for the present time. Museum 

staff have been looking for ways to support parents dealing 

with educational challenges at home. As a result, the museum 

web site now includes ten coloring book pages that can be 

downloaded at no cost. The pages provide an opportunity for 

children to create their own beautiful art while also giving them a 

glimpse of native life and the natural world. 

The museum will also offer a virtual tour on Saturday, April 4, 

2020, as part of their participation in the annual Smithsonian 

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The museum will continue to look for ways to reach out to the 

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It’s springtime and with Outer Banks weather being what it is 

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time. It’s warming up in the garden, then having phenomenal 

growth spurts. April is the month of asparagus and I try to 

come up with all sorts of different uses for this versatile vegetable. 

Today, I’m going with a creamy asparagus soup. It’s light, 

yet satisfying, and perfect for a spring lunch. I’m making some 

Parmesan Rounds for crunch to accompany the soup, but your 

favorite croutons (preferably homemade) would work in a pinch. 

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Rosie’s Asparagus Soup 

1 TB unsalted butter 

8 oz. asparagus (about 12 spears), 

chopped 

3-4 mushrooms, sliced 

½ onion, finely chopped (about ¼ cup) 

1 TB unsalted butter 

2 TB flour 

2 cups vegetable broth 

¼ cup heavy cream 

2 TB chopped parsley 

Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper 

Frozen peas (optional) 

Scallion, sliced 

Lemon zest 

More chopped parsley 

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blending. The bladed wand goes directly into the pot 

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Texas Fireballs 

By Randy Young 

Photos by Callie Blanks 

Sausage balls are great, period. They’ve got sausage, 

cheese, and biscuit, all in one bite. What’s not to like? I’ve 

made them for every family gathering for years. I have constantly 

tried new things to make them better and better until I 

finally arrived at this, the perfect recipe. 

First, some background. I love hot stuff. In fact, I am actually 

the last reigning McCulloch County Texas Jalapeño-Eating 

Champion. Still have the trophy. So it was inevitable that I 

would want to add these delicacies to my sausage ball recipe. 

I also like my sausage balls to be crispy on the outside 

with a distinct biscuity texture, but soft and full of flavor on 

the inside. I found one trick that very few others have used 

and then discovered, on my own, a secret ingredient that 

no one has ever tried before now: sausage gravy mix. Trust 

me, it is perfect. 

I understand that people’s tastes are different, so feel free to 

customize my recipe to your discriminating taste. 

Reprinted with permissions from Backwoods Home Magazine Issue #158 • March/April, 2016 

Passing on the tradition is part of the fun of cooking. 

Now for the secret weapon “ get a package of sausage-flavored 

country gravy mix and you are ready to begin. If your 

taste buds can tolerate the overload, have some garlic salt, 

coarse black pepper, and red pepper flakes on hand, too. 

Preheat the oven to 375° F and bake for about 18-20 minutes 

or until they have a nice, even brown color. If you fill 

two baking sheets, I recommend that you swap the upper 

and lower positions about halfway through baking to be sure 

they get done evenly. 

When you take the sheets out, run a spatula under the balls 

to separate them from the cookie sheet and they will not 

stick. If you let them cool, it will be harder to get them loose. 

I like to eat mine warm, but some folks like them at room 

temperature, or even straight out of the fridge. 

Additional options: 

• Add the seeds and membranes to make the Fireballs really 

hot. 

• Try mixed cheeses like mozzarella and cheddar instead of 

the sharp cheddar. 

These simple ingredients (plus the secret ingredient) yield 

the world’s greatest sausage balls. 

Ingredients 

You need one pound of sausage. Not just any sausage. 

It must be the hot version. My personal favorite is Owens 

Hot Country Style Premium sausage in the red and white 

wrapper. 

Next, pick out some fresh jalapeños. For one batch, I use 

about two medium or large peppers, or three smaller ones. 

Don’t worry about the spicy heat, we’ll take care of that later. 

Grab a nice white onion as well. 

Find some sharp cheddar cheese. Be sure you can shred 

it very finely. You will need four cups (about a pound) of 

shredded cheese. While you are in the dairy aisle, snag a 

package of cream cheese. It really adds a nice texture and 

taste to the insides of the Fireballs. 

You will also need a couple of cups of Bisquick biscuit mix. 

The secret recipe 

Cut the stem end of the peppers off and split them lengthwise. 

Be sure the peppers are dry from washing and do 

not run water over them as you work on them or you will be 

crying from the resulting vapors! 

Take a spoon and carefully remove the seeds and white 

membranes. These contain the vast majority of the heat in 

the pepper. If you are a pepper-a-holic like me, you can use 

the whole peppers, but be forewarned that if you do, only 

one in 100 people will be able to tolerate them. 

Now take about ¼ of the onion and chop it and the peppers 

very finely. In a large mixing bowl, put the sausage, 

four cups (give or take) of the cheddar cheese, 4 ounces 

of cream cheese, the onions and peppers, 2½ cups of 

Bisquick, and one packet of the secret ingredient, sausage 

gravy mix. 

Now for the physical part. You will need to knead it all together. 

I usually squeeze the dough through my fingers, turn 

it over, and press it into the remaining baking mix, repeating 

until all the mix is incorporated and the mixture is consistent 

throughout. It is hard work. Your forearms will be tired. 

Lightly oil a couple of baking sheets and begin rolling out 

round balls. I like mine on the smaller side of ¾ to 1 inch 

in size, so they get done inside just as the outsides begin 

to get nice and brown. Too big, and the outsides get crusty 

while the insides are not quite done. If you happen to make 

that error, a microwave session can salvage them somewhat. 

• Add a dash of chili powder or a sprinkle of ranch dressing 

to the mix. 

• Instead of balls, make Randy’s Firecrackers by rolling 3x¼inch 

sticks. 

• Freeze the mix and save it for later. 

• Refrigerate the mix and cook quick, fresh breakfast snacks 

in the microwave. 

Eventually, you will learn to make double batches of Texas 

Fireballs so you can hide a bunch for yourself. 

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The Three Most Common Post-Shooting Errors 

This article first appeared in the Network’s membership journal. Part 2 

Ayoob theorized that most citizens have no conditioning 

to call police after an incident. “As kids, we all watched 

movies where the good guy – wearing his white hat – shot the 

bad guy in the black hat, then just walked off into the sunset. 

Unless trained to deal with this kind of situation, nothing in 

most people’s life experience tells them that they have missed 

a critical step here,” he noted. In his classes, he teaches citizens 

how to avoid making these and other mistakes. Part of 

his curriculum outlines a five-point checklist for handling police 

response after a shooting. 

Massad advised giving a brief statement when officers arrive, 

to explain, “This person attacked me.” Describe the situation, 

stating from the beginning to clarify “I’m the victim, that person 

is the perpetrator.” Ayoob called this statement the Active 

Dynamic, defining as it does, what caused the citizen to draw 

their firearm. He added, “Be sure to admit to drawing your gun 

if you did so; to fail to mention it will be seen as deceptive.” 

Massad Ayoob’s Five-Point Checklist 

1. Tell responding officers “I’m the victim; he is the 

perpetrator.” 

2. Tell responding officers, “I will sign a complaint.” 

3. Point out pertinent evidence. 

4. Point out any witnesses who saw what happened. 

5. If there is any hint that you are a suspect, say “Officer, 

you will have my full cooperation after I have counsel here.” 

I couldn’t help but notice that calling a lawyer came well after 

speaking with the responding officer. Ayoob acknowledged, 

“The lawyer is a lower priority, though all five steps need to 

be there,” comparing each of the five steps to links in a chain. 

“If you ask for a lawyer first, you won’t get the chance to go 

through steps 1-4,” he pointed out. 

“I like to start from ground zero, because I have been on both 

sides,” Massad explained. “I’ve been the responding officer 

and have been to calls where I didn’t know what the hell happened. 

It is absolutely critical that your first statement make it 

clear who is the victim! If ‘I want a lawyer,’ is the first thing out 

of your mouth, you will sound like the criminals officers deal 

with all the time.” 

Don’t Run Off At The Mouth 

Still, in following the five-step checklist, the armed citizen must 

take care not to go to the other extreme. Common post-shooting 

error number two is “running your mouth, according to 

Massad. 

He cited the State of Florida v. Zane Britt to illustrate this point. 

“Britt is your basic New Age yuppie who is smart enough to 

have a carry permit,” Massad began. Britt was a gentle kind of 

by Gila Hayes 

a guy who loved telling stories to his grandchildren. 

After the shooting, Britt waived the Miranda warning and his 

right to counsel. The audiotape of his interview sounded like 

a second-grade teacher reading a story to a child. He gave 

nicknames to things, stating in his interview, for example, that 

he was out walking his “diggity-dog,” a term he used several 

times, setting a flippant tone. “The cops think this guy is 

whacked out,” Massad commented. “We won the case, but he 

had to go through a full-blown murder trial in order to win an 

acquittal.” 

The trial might have been avoided had Britt taken 24 hours to 

recover his bearings before the interview, or had an attorney 

been at his side, who could have told him, “Think before 

you answer,” or if he had put together a written statement, 

pleading that he was traumatized to give a verbal statement 

immediately. 

In an aside, Massad acknowledged the value of an attorney 

educated about defending innocent people. “Very, very few 

criminal defense attorneys have any significant experience in 

defending these kinds of cases. The affirmative defense principle 

is 180-degrees reversed from the usual damage control 

and credibility attacks lawyers use to defend guilty men,” he 

explained. This is another tremendous advantage offered by 

the Network: procuring referrals to lawyers who understand 

the unique task of defending the armed citizen who has shot 

in self defense, as well as connecting members with court-recognized 

experts who can assist the legal defense team. 

Statements made to responding officers are extremely critical, 

Massad emphasized. “The questions come at random as they 

occur to the officer, but your answers create the illusion in the 

officer’s mind that this is the sequence in which things happened. 

It certainly comes across that way in the narrative of 

the written report,” he stressed. This false impression creates 

damage when it appears that your time line does not agree 

with other evidence. 

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Currituck Chamber News 

An Open Letter on COVID-19 

Every morning I wake up and it feels like I am preparing anew for a 

hurricane about to hit the shore. The difference is this storm is unseen 

and the devastation is the illness called COVID-19 rather than wind and 

water. What isn’t different is the sense of community where we rally 

around one another. We try to keep each other’s spirits up on social media, 

we share and support the restaurants that have had to move to take 

out only menus, the schools adapt by going to online learning and meal 

delivery, and we collect needed items for the elderly. 

My specific professional interest lies with the business community and 

how they survive this. They will survive, as they have always survived, 

with American ingenuity and optimism: businesses change and adapt to 

any situation. Yes, there will be financial pain in the short-term, but the 

business community will come out of this crisis even stronger than before. 

As businesses adapt to deal with the crisis, I think they will find new revenue 

streams once operations return to normal. Food delivery services that 

have previously only been an option in urban areas, and have been created 

here now out of necessity, will be an option here. Once we normalize, 

how many restaurants will continue delivery and find a profit stream in this 

new venture? This creativity from crisis can extend to other critical areas 

of our lives locally. How many places of worship have seen declining 

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Rufus King, lesser-known Signer of the Constitution 

by: Tara Ross 

In March 1755, a signer of the United States Constitution 

is born. Rufus King would go on to become 

the last Federalist candidate to run for President. What 

if he’d succeeded? America’s fifth President would 

have been President King! 

As it would turn out, King wasn’t even close to earning 

the title. When he ran for President in 1816, he won 

only 34 electors to James Monroe’s 183. 

King was born in modern-day Maine to a prominent 

farmer-merchant. Unfortunately, his family fell on hard 

times when his father suddenly passed away. King was 

left studying law and monitoring his business interests 

at a time when others were joining the Revolutionary 

War effort. 

At the time, some questioned his patriotism, but King 

wanted to support his stepmother and siblings. 

In the end, King did serve in the war briefly, but only 

when his region was threatened. Perhaps his approach 

was not so odd in a day and age when people felt more 

loyalty to their states than to any national entity? 

King was slowly but steadily earning the respect of 

those around him. He was elected to the state legislature. 

He served in the Confederation Congress. His 

legal practice was thriving. By 1787, he was elected to 

represent Massachusetts at the Constitutional Convention. 

By then, Shays’ Rebellion had rocked Massachusetts. 

The incident left King more open to the idea of a 

stronger national government, and discussions at the 

Convention further convinced him that the Articles of 

Confederation simply were not working. King became 

an important figure in crafting the compromises in our 

Constitution—and in getting that document approved 

by his home state. 

It would be one of the last things he would do for 

Massachusetts. He was becoming more of a national 

figure. He married the daughter of a New York merchant 

and moved to New York, first home of the new 

United States government. 

them,” a peer wrote King in 1785, “may be pardonable, 

because unavoidable . . . but to introduce them into 

countries where none now exist, countries which have 

been talked of—which we have boasted of—as an 

asylum to the oppressed of the Earth—can never be 

forgiven.” 

King agreed wholeheartedly, responding: “Your ideas 

on this unjustifiable practice are so just that it would be 

impossible to differ from them.” By then, he’d advocated 

in the Confederation Congress for the exclusion of 

slavery from the Northwest Territory. Later, as a United 

States Senator from New York, he would make similar 

arguments against allowing Missouri to enter the Union 

as a slave state. 

The man who had been born into a slaveholding family 

had come to see how incompatible Revolutionary War 

principles were with the institution of slavery. Indeed, it 

was a revelation that many in the founding generation 

had, although they don’t always get much credit for it. 

“Among the Founding Fathers,” two Army historians 

write, “King probably traveled the longest philosophical 

distance. Beginning his career as an isolated, 

provincial scholar, he matured into a unionist of broad 

vision. This transformation left him optimistic about the 

nation’s future. The United States, he claimed, ‘on account 

of the freedom of their government, and the vigor 

and enterprise of their People, have the Right as well 

as the Power to take the lead in whatever may affect or 

concern the new world.’” 

Tara Ross is a mother, wife, writer, and retired lawyer. She is 

the author of The Indispensable Electoral College: How the 

Founders’ Plan Saves Our Country from Mob Rule,Enlightened 

Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College, co-author of 

Under God: George Washington and the Question of Church 

and State (with Joseph C. Smith, Jr.), & We Elect A President: 

The Story of our Electoral College. She is a constitutionalist, 

but with a definite libertarian streak! Stay tuned here for updates 

on pretty much anything to do with the Electoral College, 

George Washington, & our wonderfully rich American heritage. 

King served in many capacities in the new American 

government, but perhaps he should be better known 

for one important position he took: King worked against 

the introduction of slavery into new American territories 

and states. 

“To suffer the continuance of slaves until they can gradually 

be emancipated in states already overrun with 

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A Litany of Useless Laws Have Been Exposed By the Coronavirus 

The ability to suspend these laws without fear of endangering the public opens 

the door to questioning their purpose. By: Charles Blain 

From the start of the COVID-19 outbreak 

in the United States, state and local governments 

responded in various ways from 

issuing emergency orders citywide shutdowns 

to school closures and beyond —but 

it’s the suspension of various laws and regulations 

that is exposing the unnecessary 

regulatory web that burdens businesses. 

As often happens during emergencies, 

governors and mayors across the country 

have used executive power to waive laws 

and bypass regulations. This allows goods 

to get to the public quicker at lower cost, 

more service providers to enter struggling 

industries, and the market to respond to the 

crisis in countless other ways. 

Lifting these regulations does not put public 

health or safety in jeopardy; if that were 

the case, they wouldn’t be lifted with such 

ease. But this should lead the public to 

question why the regulatory burdens exist 

at all. 

Useless Regulations 

In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott waived oversize 

and overweight restrictions for commercial 

trucks and suspended requirements to 

register under the International Registration 

Plan or to obtain temporary registration, as 

long as the truck is registered in one US 

state. 

Gov. Abbott also waived regulations allowing 

doctors to receive the same payment 

for over-the-phone telemedicine visits that 

they would for in-person visits for patients 

on state-regulated insurance plans. 

Most notably, he waived state laws that 

prohibit alcohol industry trucks from delivering 

supplies to grocery stores saying, 

“by removing these regulations, we are 

streamlining the process to replenish the 

shelves in grocery stores across the state.” 

All of these moves allowed for the market to 

identify the needs of the public and fill them 

as quickly as possible. 

In Boston, restaurants typically need a 

specific permit to provide carry-out service, 

but Mayor Marty Walsh lifted that requirement 

to allow for every restaurant to offer 

the service. Even New York City suspended 

its enforcement of illegal e-bikes during the 

crisis to accommodate for the influx of delivery 

orders, the state also moved to allow 

liquor-to-go. 

Supply and Demand 

Due to the increased demand, and ability 

for the supply chain to keep up with that demand, 

supermarket companies like H-E-B, 

Kroger, and Randall’s announced they’d 

be hiring thousands of additional staff. The 

newfound flexibility on trucking regulations 

means that grocers like H-E-B are deploying 

1,300 trucks a day to continuously 

supply their stores. 

In New Jersey, Bayonne ended enforcement 

of expired Resident and Driveway 

Parking permits. They also suspended issuing 

permits for what they consider “minor 

work,” like plumbing, electrical, mechanical, 

fire, and building. As long as contractors 

alert the city of the work they intend to do, 

the city will inspect it at a later date. 

The ability to suspend these laws without 

fear of endangering the public opens the 

door to questioning their purpose. Many 

of these regulations appear to serve as no 

more than impediments to free exchange. 

If these measures exist simply to generate 

additional government revenue, the public 

should ask themselves, once the crisis has 

abated: should they exist at all? 

Reprinted with permission from fee.org 

For Affordable Housing, Let Supply Meet Demand 

Rather than subsidizing traditional affordable housing, conservatives have pushed 

to liberalize land use as a way to preserve options for everyone. By: Charles Blain 

There’s a common misconception that 

conservatives are hostile toward affordable 

housing. While it’s true that the rhetoric 

surrounding housing and the plight of urban 

areas can, at times, be downright off-putting, 

free-market policy prescriptions are the 

way to make affordable housing a reality for 

those who need it most. 

Good Intentions Do Not Equal Good Results 

A cursory look at some of the most unaffordable 

cities in the country—San Francisco, 

New York, Boston, Chicago—shows that 

despite the verbal commitment to increasing 

affordability made by every big-city local 

official, their policies have worked against 

that goal. 

Economist Jed Kolko compiled a study a 

few years ago with Trulia, a real estate site, 

looking into affordability in metro areas. 

Kolko analyzed 32 right-leaning metros, 40 

left-leaning ones, and 20 solidly Democratic 

strongholds and found that “even after 

adjusting for differences of income, liberal 

markets tend to have higher income inequality 

and worse affordability.” 

A separate study by Matthew Kahn, a UCLA 

economist, noted that as metros in California 

became more liberal, they issued fewer 

permits and built fewer homes. Kahn wrote 

that “cities experiencing a growth in their 

liberal voter share have a lower new housing 

permit growth rate.” 

Regulations and Government Intervention 

State lawmakers in Texas took note of 

issues caused by slow permitting in cities. 

During the 85th legislature, Governor Greg 

Abbott pushed for permitting reform. Many 

of those who opposed his effort—big-city 

mayors and interest groups like the Texas 

Municipal League—did so under the guise of 

“local control.” Around the country, a similar 

reluctance to address permitting delays 

can be found, but at the same time, those 

officials push for increased subsidies for affordable 

housing, ensuring that supply never 

meets demand. 

City officials often favor stricter land use 

policies overall, not just in permitting. Mandatory 

parking minimums, which require a 

portion of otherwise usable square footage 

to be dedicated to parking, abound in most 

urban areas. There are also minimum lot 

size requirements. As the name implies, they 

require all parcels of land in a given area be 

equal to or greater than whatever square 

footage is predetermined by the local government. 

If someone wants to build a starter 

home, they’re still required to own a large 

lot, which decreases density and drives up 

housing costs, effectively banning anyone 

who can’t afford a massive lot of land. 

These cities often have higher property tax 

burdens than average, too. Many forget—or 

don’t realize—that renters are not exempt 

from paying property taxes. In Texas’ largest 

county, Harris, the burden on renters has 

increased four times faster than on homeowners. 

One complex owner in the Dallas 

area said that roughly $400-$500 of his tenants’ 

$1,500 a month rent goes to the overall 

property tax burden. Considering renters 

don’t get the exemptions that homeowners 

do—like exemptions for the elderly, disabled, 

and veterans—in many instances they carry 

a larger property tax burden. 

Rather than subsidizing traditional affordable 

housing, conservatives have pushed to liberalize 

land use as a way to preserve options 

for everyone on the economic spectrum, 

but there is a lot of room for improvement 

in cities. Reinserting the free market into 

the housing debate will make affordability a 

sustainable reality in a way that subsidies 

never will. 

Reprinted with permission from fee.org 

Charles Blain is the founder and executive 

director of Urban Reform, a Houston-based 

non-profit focused on free-market solutions 

to urban issues. 


THEME: COFFEE AND TEA 

ACROSS 

1. Bookie’s number 

5. Parents org. 

8. Slang for microwave 

11. Time distortion 

12. One with biggest share? 

13. Like a case of appendicitis, 

possibly 

15. Decanter 

16. Knowing about 

17. Mister in Madrid 

18. *Usually served on ice, 2 

words 

20. Barber’s sound 

21. Accepted truth 

22. Took a load off 

23. Artist’s office 

26. Excites passions, 2 words 

30. Comic book cry of horror 

31. Rude or sarcastic 

34. Chips, perhaps 

35. Roleplay 

37. Chinese “way” 

38. Ice floaters 

39. 100 centavos 

40. Merry 

42. Table scrap 

43. Breastbone 

45. *Double shot of espresso 

47. Feather’s partner 

48. Not here 

50. Nickname for Putin? 

52. *Revolutionary event 

55. *”Tea is the only simple 

pleasure left to us,” he wrote 

56. Research facil. 

57. Typically used in the 

fairway 

59. Goodbye to amiga 

60. Plenty 

61. Why not 

62. *Black tea, in China 

63. Bard’s “before” 

64. Pay close attention 

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1. Be in the red 

2. Crows’ cousins 

3. Actress Barrymore 

4. More like rumors 

5. ‘70s Ford model 

6. Native American emblem 

7. Dwarf buffalo 

8. Pueblo tribesman 

9. On top 

10. For each 

12. Cosmetic cabinet staple 

13. Allegro ____ in music, 

Italian 

14. *____ Perk from “Friends” 

19. Exit plus s 

22. Eye infection 

23. Oozes 

24. Article of faith 

25. Romanov’s edict 

26. *A ____ of tea, in U.K. 

27. Prowl around 

28. Embryo cradles 

29. Green pasta sauce 

32. One on the list 

33. Faux one 

36. *Equal parts espresso and 

warm milk 

38. Fauna’s partner 

40. Hudson’s Bay Company 

original ware 

41. Experts 

44. Nose channels 

46. Kick the bucket 

48. Between countertenor and 

baritone 

49. Make this, not waste 

50. Affected by the moon 

51. Went down a slippery slope 

52. Kitchen flooring choice 

53. Tried follower 

54. Bygone era 

55. *The Revolutionary one 

followed #52 Across 

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Northeast North Carolina Family History - return of a pandemic… 

By: Irene Hampton - nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com 

Three years ago this month I wrote about the “blue flu” or 

the Spanish Flu epidemic (named as news coverage of 

it began in Spain) which was truly a pandemic. Given the 

worldwide pandemic we are seeing today I thought I would 

revisit that column. Unlike the regular flu which preys upon 

the very young and very old, that strain of flu attacked those 

with strong immune systems, killing the young and healthy 

by creating a violent reaction to the human immune system. 

As we age our immune systems weaken which normally 

makes older people more vulnerable. My mother’s uncle 

Edmond died December 14th, 1918 in Canada at the age of 

twenty-five. The 100th anniversary of that world wide disaster 

got an airing in many articles in 2017 and 2018. Though 

the disease began to be written about in 1918 it continued 

for almost two years. 

In North Carolina, the “blue death” claimed the lives of 

over 13,000 during the three separate waves of the disease. 

Approximately 1 million of North Carolina’s 2.5 million residents 

caught it, so almost half of the state’s population. It is 

thought the epidemic in North Carolina began in Wilmington 

in September of 1918 and spread along the rail lines into 

the rest of the state. This health crisis put serious strains on 

hospitals and the fledgling North Carolina public health system. 

Many health care professionals were already heavily 

involved in WWI. Across the country the flu was being misdiagnosed 

and not considered as serious as it was. Other 

diseases like typhoid fever and tuberculosis were prevalent 

at the same time. By the time health advisories were given 

and governments started closing schools, churches and 

banning public gatherings it was too late. 

The increased mobility of WWI soldiers travelling spread 

the flu to every corner of the world, including the Arctic and 

remote Pacific islands. Across the world an estimated 500 

million people were infected. Depending on the site you 

check death figures range from 17 to 100 million. The high 

end represents approximately 3-5% of the world’s population. 

It did kill over 600,000 people in the United States and 

in one year the average life expectancy here dropped by 12 

years. The origin of the flu was much debated without a definitive 

answer although different websites suggest France, 

Austria, Spain, the United States and China (in 1917) as 

possible ground zero sites. An American Experience program 

on PBS puts the origin in Kansas at Fort Riley. 

The first documented and confirmed case in the United 

States was that of mess cook, Private Albert Gitchell in Fort 

Riley, Kansas on March 11th, 1918. Within days hundreds 

were sick. The speed with which the flu killed was frightening 

as those infected would often be dead within 48 hours of 

the onset. Lungs would fill up with fluid, the respiratory system 

would fail and the skin of those afflicted would turn blue 

as tissue was starved of oxygen which resulted in the nickname 

“blue flu” or “blue death.” This first wave disappeared 

fairly quickly. It was the fall of 1918 when the second wave 

ravaged the country. 

A University of North Carolina president died early in the 

epidemic and his successor died a month later. So many 

soldiers were dying in North Carolina that the railroad station 

near Camp Greene outside of Charlotte had coffins stacked 

from floor to ceiling. These young men never made the trip 

to Europe to fight in WWI. 

About a third of the world’s population was infected by 

this pandemic. More people died by the flu of 1918 than 

any other plague or disease there are statistics for and more 

died by it than those killed during WWI. My mother’s uncle 

was among 50,000 Canadians that died. Such pandemics 

have and will continue to be a part of our family histories. I 

am including a few websites that I visited if you are interested 

in further reading. 

www.ncpedia.org/history/health/influenza 

https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/ncm/index.php/2008/10/01/this_ 

month_oct_1918/ 

www.archives.gov/exhibits/influenza-epidemic 

https:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu (This one has 

lots of differing information on origin.) 

Irene Hampton earned a certificate in Genealogy from Brigham Young 

University and worked as the Genealogical/Local history Researcher 

for the Pasquotank-Camden Library for over 12 years. She has also 

abstracted and published “Widow’s Years Provisions, 1881-1899, 

Pasquotank County, North Carolina”; “1840 Currituck, North Carolina 

Federal Census” and “Record of Marriages, Book A (1851-1867) 

Currituck County, North Carolina”. 

You may contact her at 

nencfamilyhistory@gmail.com. 

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How Much Will Market Volatility Really Affect You? 

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what you’ve seen in the financial markets recently. The effects of the 

coronavirus triggered a market “correction” – a decline of 10 percent or 

more – and more volatility is almost certainly on the way. But instead of 

fretting over your investment statements, you could consider some more 

positive approaches to this situation. 

For one thing, ask yourself this: When do you really need the money from 

your investment accounts, such as your IRA and your 401(k) or similar employer-sponsored 

plan? These are retirement accounts, so, depending on 

your age, you may not need to tap into them for 20, 30 or even 40 years. 

If so, your losses may be “paper” ones only for now and aren’t subjecting 

you to imminent financial jeopardy. This isn’t to minimize the effect this 

downturn will have on you, of course – it always takes time to recover lost 

ground, and there are no guarantees with investing. However, although 

past performance does not guarantee future results, it is useful to note 

that, over its long history, the U.S. stock market has typically trended in 

one direction – up – despite serious and sometimes lengthy declines such 

as we saw in the Great Depression and, to a lesser extent, the bursting of 

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For these goals, though, you wouldn’t want to touch your IRA or 401(k), 

anyway, as you’d likely face taxes and penalties. Instead, you’ll want your 

money invested in liquid, low-risk accounts that will be minimally affected, 

if at all, by declines in the financial markets. These vehicles might include 

Certificates of Deposit (CDs), money market accounts and even good 

old-fashioned U.S. Savings Bonds, all of which offer the protection of principal 

and can pay higher rates than traditional bank savings accounts. 

But you might also have longer-term goals that can be addressed through 

investments that may be somewhat or largely free of the effects of market 

volatility. For example, to supplement your retirement income, you might 

consider a fixed annuity, which can provide you with a guaranteed interest 

rate and, depending on how it’s structured, an income stream you can’t 

outlive. 

Apart from the issue of when you might need money from your investment 

accounts, you might want to ask yourself another question: Just how 

much of my net worth is tied up in my portfolio? If you’re like many people, 

you have other assets apart from your investments. If you’re a homeowner, 

consider your house: Has it dropped in value at all during the recent market 

decline? Probably not. Do you still have just as much equity in it as you 

did a month ago? You might have even more. In other words, the value of 

your investments may have dropped a certain percentage, but the decline 

in your overall net worth may well be significantly smaller. 

So, here’s the bottom line: Large drops in the financial markets aren’t 

much fun for investors – but that doesn’t mean the bottom has dropped out 

on your financial future. Keeping things in perspective is a good move in all 

of life’s endeavors – including investing. 

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New Life of Currituck 

by Pastor Dan Bergey 

What crazy and unexpected times we live in today. For 

some of us it might be easy to carry out the social distancing 

we currently see. For others like myself it may be a bit 

harder to adhere to the limits put in place. But there is a larger 

impact on a person than those limits, it is stepping back and 

looking at the big picture while doing what is asked of us. So, I 

thought it might be helpful to continue some thoughts from the 

book of Proverbs in the Bible. Proverbs was written to help us 

gain wisdom for avoiding struggles that want to trip us. Its goal 

is to give the naive the ability to self-discipline in a very practical 

way. The wisdom we gain is based on knowing and living 

for Jesus. Proverbs talks about the attitude to take in difficult 

time. 

“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and 

discretion.” Proverbs 8:12 

Now I know that I am not able to fully unpack all the insight 

in these verses in this article, yet I think it is trying to speak to 

us today. The first verse in this chapter askes us a question. It 

asks if wisdom is calling out loud and understanding will give 

the answer. First may we center ourselves to understand this 

word wisdom in the Bible. Wisdom in the Bible teaches that 

I can have the power and strength to see things in the right 

way. This power is available to me when I correctly look at the 

world around me and make wise spiritual decisions on earthly 

matters. It also teaches me that God Himself is wisdom and I 

can see those created things displayed all around me. Verse 

12 says that wisdom dwells with prudence, when those two live 

together we find knowledge and discretion. 

I can hear some people who know me well saying right now 

Dan, will you please get to the point. I will, please do not get 

caught up on the natural things without first asking God what 

He might want me to learn about myself and others. One of the 

hardest things to do is make good decisions when faced with 

bad situations. Some of us think if we do not make decisions 

it will go away, others make quick decisions without thinking 

things through, and others will try to live in the moment looking 

for the other side of the challenge. The Bible does not want us 

to be procrastinators or to jump to the worst possible scenario, 

but rather live by faith. It is interesting to me the word prudence 

here; it means to be cunning or to have trickery. The meaning 

here is in the good sense not in a deceitful or bad sense. This 

means that wisdom coming from God will provide me interesting 

ways to out smart the way the world is thinking and respond 

in God’s way of wisdom and not the wisdom of the world. 

Jesus did something like this to Peter, they were discussing 

forgiveness. Peter, I think was rather proud of himself coming 

up with forgiving someone seven times and Jesus answered 

him to forgive seventy times seven. Peter was thinking what 

he could come up with on his own and Jesus wanted Peter to 

think about it from a spiritual perspective and not a human one. 

Now go back with me to Proverbs chapter 8 and look with me 

at the answer in verse 14. “Counsel is mine and sound wisdom, 

I am understanding, power is mine.” Let me paraphrase that 

verse; When I hear God’s wise counsel, I gain sound wisdom. 

This wise counsel paired with sound wisdom provides me with 

understanding and power to make good decisions in bad or 

difficult times. 

May I leave you with some words of encouragement. Pray 

and ask for wisdom during this time of difficulty. Think of others 

as much as yourself and be willing to give freely when others 

are in need. This too will pass so take with you the memory of 

what you have learned and apply it as strength for your continued 

journey in your relationship with God and others. We are 

praying with you through this challenge. 

So, in the coming months if you would like to hear encouragement 

from a verse in the book of proverbs please send me an 

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Rest in Him 

by Ron Ben-Dov 

Copyright all rights reserved 

The devil’s only weapon is fear 

He’ll attack you when you’re weary 

Go at you while you sleep 

He’ll pound your mind 

And squeeze your heart 

He aims to cause you doubt 

To play upon your fears 

But if you know Lord Jesus 

Keep Him and His ways 

Stand on your knees and pray 

Live your life to praise, Jesus 

You’ll pass the test, have a testimony, and eternal life 

So, trust in Him 

Rest in Him, yes, rest in Him 

and wait patiently on the Lord 

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The author was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 12, 

1953. Moved to New York at the age of five, and became 

a U.S. citizen at the age of eleven. Graduated from 

George Washington High School in New York City. In 

1972, I enlisted in the U S Navy and was discharged in 

1975. I was a merchant seaman from 1982 through 1988. 

In between I dug ditches, washed dishes, sold used cars, 

and even drove a cab. I graduated from Elizabeth City 

State University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. 

I was a Motor Fuels Tax Auditor for the State of 

North Carolina, an IT Control Specialist for Gateway Bank/ 

Bank of Hampton Roads and retired at the end of 2015. 

Author of the following books: 

Faith Based Poetry 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron 

Inspiration by God, More Perspiration by Ron 

Inspiration by God, Even More Perspiration by Ron 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume IV 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume V 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume VI 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume VII 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume VIII 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume IX 

Inspiration by God, Perspiration by Ron, Volume X 

Secular Poetry 

School of Life 

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possible so to mold the mind of 

the masses that they will throw 

their newly gained strength in the 

desired direction. In the present 

structure of society, this practice 

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importance is done today, whether 

in politics, finance, manufacture, 

agriculture, charity, education, 

or other fields, must be done 

with the help of propaganda. 

Propaganda is the executive arm 

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members for the 33rd Annual Spring Open Beach Hunt on May 2, 

2020, at the Wyndham Hotel, 5700 Atlantic Avenue, Virginia Beach, 

Virginia. There will be three seeded beach hunts planned - one all 

silver as well as an additional children’s hunt, and lunch. Children 

12 and under are FREE with an adult paid registration. There are 

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10 Days of the Greatest Escape of 1863 from the Ship Maple Leaf - Part 3 

The Journey Back of the Escapes of the Maple Leaf By Dr. Dave 

With no time to lose the escapees set out 

to go west towards the confederate lines 

some sixty miles away past the Pasquatank 

River. At 2:00am on June 15th, 1863 they started 

out again after a day and a half of hiding in the 

underbrush in an area called Wild Cat Swamp. 

Because a runaway slave betrayed them to the 

Yankees. The next two days were like a sleepless 

odyssey of running and hiding all the way 

being guided by the locals and Captain Sanderlin 

with his men. The escapees spirits were lifted 

and rallied when late one night a dozen wagons 

showed up driven by some women of Camden 

and Currituck Counties. To travel safer and 

quicker it was decided to separate into different 

groups, one group of 30 marched northwest over 

land on June 18, 1863. From the diary of 2nd 

Lt. William A. MeBane; under Major Burroughs 

one of that group was 2nd Lt. MeBane originally 

from Perquimans County and was with the 

27 N.C. which started out as the Perquimans 

Beauregards. MeBane was on furlough on Jan. 

4th, 1863 and was captured by the Yankees that 

evening and sent to New Bern and on May 24th 

was sent to Fort Norfolk and stayed there under 

Yankee captivity until June 10th when they were 

put on the Maple Leaf. After escaping with 69 

others all headed south west. When we split into 

groups for further safety I went with Major Burroughs 

through Camden County until June 16th 

when we succeeded crossing the Pasquotank 

River and marched on the Parksville Rd. At the 

time myself and a companion started toward the 

Chowan River and my house. On the morning 

of June 18th we crossed the Chowan River. We 

stayed with my friends and relations in Bertie 

County for about a week and then returned to my 

regiment near Richmond, VA. About the same 

time as the other groups. The others went by 

water down North Landing River into Currituck 

Sound and west of the Chowan River because 

there was not enough room in the boats 4 or 5 

set out to cross Pasquotank County near Elizabeth 

City, N.C. and try to make the Chowan by 

foot. The Semmes Party made its way past the 

Perquimans River approaching Edenton, N.C. 

and put ashore on Yeopin Creek a few miles east 

of Edenton. 

Here the group was embraced by the congregation 

of the Bethel Baptist Church (now on 

Snug Harbor Rd.) and a small company of the 

Perquimans partisan rangers under Captain 

Myers. Local women of the church set promptly 

to work preparing meals and packets of food for 

the escapees to take with them. After a prayer 

and a hymn by all at the church, donated carts 

transported across Chowan County to the river 

and sent off with earnest good wishes for their 

welfare. After reaching the Chowan River at 

Cannon’s Ferry on June 20th, 1863 they were 

joined by the smaller group that came on foot 

and all were ferried across the river to Bertie 

County (now Harrellsville) all had supper and 

lodging provided by the local citizens. In the 

morning they all traveled to the railroad terminal 

at Boykins, VA and all 70 made it to Richmond, 

VA on June 27th, 1863. In Richmond they were 

honored with the greatest horahs, esteem and 

pomp. 

This complete event was an enormous embarrassment 

to the Union government and a huge 

morale boost and victory for the Confederacy 

and due to this embarrassment, an extensive 

search took place for the loyal Confederate 

citizens who assisted the road to freedom for the 

escapees. When the Union forces caught up to 

these angels of mercy there was almost every 

method of torture and pressure, even hanging 

in retribution for helping their fellow Southern 

escapees. 

In a roundabout of fate for the ship Maple Leaf 

on April 1, 1864 (kind of ironic event now that is 

April Fool’s Day) met its ultimate destiny, ran 

into a torpedo on the St. John’s River about 20 

miles south of Jacksonville, Florida. 

Sons of Confederate Veterans 

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Should I Purchase a Gun for Self Defense? 

Hello Mr. Ross, 

My name is Steve and I am a 60 year old resident of Northern California. 

A Residential General Contractor, Carpenter by trade, and although I 

am fairly Liberal in my politics, I do believe in the right of every American 

citizen to own and protect themselves and family with a firearm. 

To continue. 

As I get older I see more and more negative actions in our Country, 

school and church shootings, carjackings, robberies etc. etc. etc. and it 

is very concerning to me. 

I have never owned or operated a weapon, other than shooting a 

friend rifle in the past, and I have never been interested in Hunting, 

however, I have always been interested in handguns. 

Recently, over the last few years, I have been actively researching 

handguns, compact and sub-compact firearms, as well as watching 

many, many, videos on the various websites 

regarding the pro’s and con’s of the various guns as well as proper 

handling, use and maintenance of each. 

Unfortunately, living in California, I understand that ” concealed carry 

” is rarely if ever possible for the average guy or gal. (other than Law 

Enforcement etc.), so that is not a ” must have ” in my opinion. 

That said, I am reasonably confident that I will continue my research 

and move forward with vetting and the purchase of a firearm ( handgun 

) this year. 

In closing. 

Any information, advise, as well as your comments and thoughts 

regarding my e-mail today and future purchase would certainly be 

appreciated. 

Thank you for your time. 

Regards, 

Steve 

#### 

Hi Seve, 

Thanks for reaching out. 

The short answer is YES you should purchase a firearm. And since 

you’re in California, it’s going to be for your home or business. 

Before I continue – I don’t consider myself a gun expert, I’m a self 

defense expert and any answer I give you is from that perspective. As 

far as specific model of weapon, I’m not that versed. I own a sig 9mm 

handgun, a mossberg 12 guage shot gun and a stag arms ar-15 and a 

little .22 rifle. 

For home self defense it’s either a shotgun of the 9mm (why not a 45 

in a minute). 

Shot gun advantages 

Don’t need to be crazy accurate. 

Can load it with variable rounds like birdshot, buckshot and slugs 

Shot gun disadvantages 

Can’t conceal it well in the home – needs to be trigger locked, in a gun 

safe or unloaded (depending on your laws) this makes it less accessible. 

Need to practice more taking corners around your home 

Need to do a lot of drywall repair after 

Handgun advantages 

Easy to conceal in the home – can even carry it easily while in the 

home. 

Easy to maneuver with 

Can by put in a smaller safe or hideaway compartment less drywall 

repair 

Handgun advantages 

Need to be more accurate 

Need to hit with multiple rounds to stop threat (might have to reload) 

So the choice is up to you…and now you see why I own both. 

*Why a 9mm and not a 45? For the same reason law enforcement is 

switch back. The knock down power of a 45 is a little exaggerated. 

(we’re talking same “type of round” out of same type of weapon). So 

barrel length is the same, and load is the same – not a magnum vs. a 

plain old round. 

What they discovered was that it is more important to get more rounds 

in your target than it is a larger caliber bullet. The problem with the 45 

is the kick and it takes you farther off target – so you will miss more 

with the 45. 

Remember – a firearm is only as good as the person holding it and it’s 

just a tool in your self defense tool box which should include methods 

of awareness, escape and evasion, hand to hand, edged and impact 

weapons. 

Sound like a lot, but we can get you up to speed in a few months. 

Anyway – if you’re going down the self defense path – which everyone 

should, make sure you got all of your other skills intact, since you’re 

20,000 times more likely to have to defend yourself without a firearm. 

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xperts say guarding your eyes — as well as your hands and 

E mouth — can slow the spread of coronavirus. Here’s why it’s 

important to protect your eyes during the coronavirus disease 2019 

(COVID-19) pandemic, and five ways you can help yourself and 

others. 

Coronavirus can spread through the eyes 

Coronavirus causes mild to severe respiratory illness. Symptoms 

such as fever, cough and shortness of breath can show up 2 to 14 

days after a person is exposed. People with severe infections can 

develop pneumonia and die from complications of the illness. 

Limiting eye exposure can help. Here’s why: 

◦ When a sick person coughs or talks, virus particles can spray 

from their mouth or nose into another person’s face. You’re most 

likely to inhale these droplets through your mouth or nose, but they 

can also enter through your eyes. 

◦ You can also become infected by touching something that 

has the virus on it — like a table or doorknob — and then touching 

your eyes. 

Coronavirus may cause pink eye — but it’s rare 

If you see someone with pink eye, don’t panic. It doesn’t mean that 

person is infected with coronavirus. But health officials believe viral 

pink eye, or conjunctivitis, develops in about 1% to 3% of people 

with coronavirus. The virus can spread by touching fluid from an 

infected person’s eyes, or from objects that carry the fluid. 

Eye care procedures may be delayed during the pandemic 

For everyone’s health and safety, ophthalmologists and other 

doctors are being urged not to see patients during the coronavirus 

pandemic except for urgent or emergency care. This is important for 

two important reasons: 

◦ Limiting contact between doctors and patients is key to helping 

reduce the spread of the coronavirus; 

◦ The entire nation must conserve vital disposable medical supplies 

(like masks and face shields) so they can be used in hospitals 

where they are most needed right now. 

You will likely find that routine patient visits will be rescheduled. 

Any eye surgeries and procedures that are not emergencies will be 

postponed. 

Call your ophthalmologist for guidance in the following situations: 

◦ You have macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy and 

get regular eye injections; 

◦ You notice changes in your vision (like blurry, wavy or blank 

spots in your field of vision); 

◦ You notice a lot of new floaters or flashes in your vision; 

◦ You suddenly lose some vision; 

◦ You have eye pain, headache, red eye, nausea and vomiting. 

Expect changes to eye exams and procedures: 

◦ The clinic may ask you to wait outside, or in your car, instead 

of in the normal waiting room. This is to protect you, the other patients, 

and the office staff from possible virus exposure in crowded 

waiting areas. 

◦ The clinic is likely restricting the number of people that enter. 

If you do not need someone to be there with you, please do not 

bring anyone to your appointment. 

◦ Your eye doctor may use a special plastic breath shield on 

the slit lamp machine they use to look into your eyes. They may 

also wear a mask with a plastic shield over their eyes. 

◦ Your doctor may ask you to wait to speak until after your eye 

exam is complete. Then they can talk with you and answer questions 

when they can be a safe distance from you. 

◦ Some practices may use telemedicine for “virtual” visits over 

the phone or video chat over a computer. 

Eye doctors recommend the following precautions: 

◦ If you have a cough or a fever, or have been in close contact 

with someone who has these symptoms, you must call your doctor’s 

office ahead of time and let them know. If your visit is not an emergency, 

you may need to stay home. 

◦ If you arrive sick, your doctor may ask you to wear a protective 

covering or mask, and to wait in a special room away from other 

patients. 

◦ If you need to cough or sneeze during your exam, move back 

from the microscope. Bury your face in the crook of your arm or 

cover your face with a tissue. Wash your hands with soap and water 

right away. 

How to help yourself and others: 

“It’s important to remember that although there is a lot of concern 

Coronavirus Eye Safety 

about coronavirus, common sense precautions can 

significantly reduce your risk of getting infected. So wash 

your hands a lot, follow good contact lens hygiene and 

avoid touching or rubbing your nose, mouth and especially 

your eyes,” says ophthalmologist Sonal Tuli, MD, 

a spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. 

1. If you wear contact lenses, switch to glasses for a 

while. 

Contact lens wearers touch their eyes more than the 

average person. “Consider wearing glasses more often, 

especially if you tend to touch your eyes a lot when 

your contacts are in. Substituting glasses for lenses can 

decrease irritation and force you to pause before touching 

your eye,” Dr. Tuli advises. If you continue wearing 

contact lenses, follow these hygiene tips to limit your 

chances of infection 

• Wash your hands with soap and water and dry them 

with a lint-free towel before handling your contacts. 

• Minimize contact with water. Remove lenses before 

showering, swimming or entering a hot tub. 

• Do not rinse or store your contacts in water (tap or sterile 

water). 

• Do not put your lenses in your mouth to wet them. 

• Do not use saline solution and rewetting drops to disinfect lenses. 

Neither is an effective or approved disinfectant. 

• Follow your eye care professional’s schedule for wearing and 

replacing your contacts. 

• Use the “rub and rinse” method to clean your contacts. Rub 

your contact lenses with your fingers, then rinse them with solution 

before soaking. Use this method even if the solution you are using 

is a “no-rub” variety. 

• Rinse the contact lens case with fresh solution — not water. 

Then leave the empty case open to air dry. 

• Keep the contact lens case clean and replace it regularly, at 

least every three months. Lens cases can be a source of contamination 

and infection. Do not use cracked or damaged lens cases. 

• Do not re-use old solution or “top off” the solution in your lens 

case. 

• Do not transfer contact lens solution into smaller travel-size 

containers. 

• Do not allow the tip of the solution bottle to touch any surface. 

Keep the bottle tightly closed when not in use. 

• Never wear your lenses after storage for 30 or more days without 

disinfecting them again 

2. Wearing glasses may add a layer of protection. 

Corrective lenses or sunglasses can shield your eyes from infected 

respiratory droplets. But they don’t provide 100% security. The virus 

can still reach your eyes from the exposed sides, tops and bottoms 

of your glasses. If you’re caring for a sick patient or potentially exposed 

person, safety goggles may offer a stronger defense. 

3. Stock up on eye medicine prescriptions if you can. 

Experts advise patients to stock up on critical medications, so that 

you’ll have enough to get by if you are quarantined or if supplies 

become limited during an outbreak. But this may not be possible for 

everyone. If your insurance allows you to get more than 1 month of 

essential eye medicine, such as glaucoma drops, you should do so. 

Some insurers will approve a 3-month supply of medication in times 

of natural disaster. Ask your pharmacist or ophthalmologist for help 

if you have trouble getting approval from your insurance company. 

And as always, request a refill as soon as you’re due. Don’t wait 

until the last minute to contact your pharmacy. 

4. Avoid rubbing your eyes. 

We all do it. While it can be hard to break this natural habit, doing 

so will lower your risk of infection. If you feel an urge to itch or rub 

your eye or even to adjust your glasses, use a tissue instead of 

your fingers. Dry eyes can lead to more rubbing, so consider adding 

moisturizing drops to your eye routine. If you must touch your eyes 

for any reason — even to administer eye medicine — wash your 

hands first with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Then wash 

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offer these 

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Charley “Bird” Parker 

Charley Parker, called Yardbird and later shortened to Bird, 

was born August 29,1937 in Kansas City, Kansas and died 

March 12, 1955 in New York City. As he was going through 

his childhood schooling, he started playing the trombone but 

later favored the saxophone. As he got better playing the tenor, 

baritone and alto saxophones, he began playing in Kansas 

City, Missouri clubs. As Charlie started playing in more clubs he 

dropped out of school and performed fulltime. 

Charlie wondered around the mid-west and played/backed 

many artists of fame. While playing with a group at a club he 

was having a problem keeping up with the fast rhythm the 

group was playing, and the drummer threw a cymbal at his feet. 

Charlie decided he had to practice more and began a twelve to 

fifteen hours a day practice session for two years. 

During these practice sessions he began to develop his fastpaced 

playing which was the start of “bebop”. BEBOP: Developed 

in the early to mid-1940s, bebop featured songs characterized 

by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions and changes 

of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a 

combination of harmonic structure, the scales and occasional 

references to the melody. 

While Charlie and his band members were traveling by tour 

bus there was a mishap with a chicken and the moniker “yardbird” 

was bestowed on him. For people that is not familiar with 

the term “yardbird”, in the south the normal chicken is referred 

to as a “yardbird”. The name stuck with Charlie for the rest of his 

life. 

by: Robert Threatt 

Charlie and the caravan of musicians had a car accident and 

Parker broke three ribs and fractured his spine. The accident 

led to Parker’s ultimate troubles with pain killers and opioids, 

especially heroin. Charlie Parker suffered with drug use for the 

rest of his life. This led to his confinement to a mental hospital 

in California (Camarillo State Mental Hospital) for six months. 

He came out clean, returned to New York where he recorded 

“Relaxing at Camarillo” and resumed the drug usage. 

Charlie Parker had three wives, and four children with one 

child dying shortly after birth. Charlie died in New York City of 

heroin and alcohol usage, lobar pneumonia, bleeding ulcer and 

advanced cirrhosis. The coroner who performed his autopsy 

mistakenly estimated Parker’s 34-year-old body to be between 

50 and 60 years of age. 

Dizzy Gillespie paid for the funeral arrangements and organized 

a lying-in-state and a Harlem procession officiated by 

Congressman and Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., as well 

as a memorial concert. 

Robert is retired from the Air 

Force and currently is a freelance 

writer and Short Wave Radio enthusiast. 

He also loves to channel 

and play Sudoku. 

Charlie played with many performers, such as Art Tatum, Thelonious 

Monk, etc. As they developed the bebop style of music, 

introduced by Charlie Parker, they were asked about the style 

of music. It was said that Monk stated, “we wanted a music that 

they couldn’t play” (the “they here are white bandleaders, who 

had taken over swing music, and made money from it.) 

Marijuana – Should It Be Legal? 

At this time, 21 states have adopted some form of “decriminalization” 

of cannabis. However, the legality is, at 

best, confused. Under federal law, pot is a Schedule I controlled 

substance (it has a high potential for abuse, and has 

no accepted medical use). This is stated in the Controlled 

Substances Act of 1970, and is the law of the land, so to 

speak. Of the states which have “legalized”, seven of them 

have approved the stuff for “recreational” use by adults. Is 

this a good idea? 

Despite a 25 year stint with DEA as a forensic chemist and 

lab manager, I’m not really a hard liner. I am pretty convinced 

that it should be available for medical treatment if 

desired. Although there is no “hard evidence” (clinical studies) 

of its efficacy for conditions such as epilepsy, or nausea 

brought on by chemotherapy, for example, there seems to 

be enough anectodal evidence to suggest it might alleviate 

these problems. Lack of clinical evidence is likely caused 

, as much as anything else, by the lack of profitablity, and 

the difficulty of procuring cannabis products for research by 

Big Pharma in the first place. If you have a child who suffers 

from multiple daily seizures which are alleviated by pot in 

some form, who am I to tell you it’s prohibited? 

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have not done our homework. We really do not know much 

about it. For one thing, the stuff available for sale to wouldbe 

users is not your fathers’ or mothers’ pot. Potency of 

THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, if you’re into chemical 

names), the usual oversimplified measure, has increased 

sharply since the eighties. Street level THC has gone from 

less than a percent to 5-10% currently. What could have 

been a pleasant high back then might be a toxic (bad trip) 

reaction today, particularly in children. I know that legalization 

laws specify availability to adults only - how has that 

worked for us keeping alcohol, for instance, away from kids? 

To further complicate matters, is THC the only psychoactive 

substance? Cannabis sativa, to use its biological name, contains 

about 80 different chemicals . Do any of these make 

you high? We really don’t know. By comparison, alcohol is 

extremely simple – we know only too well how much gets 

you loaded. We can give you a breath test and easily define 

how impaired you are. Alcohol, being water soluble, is easily 

excreted within a relatively short time. By contrast, THC, 

being fat soluble, can take months to be totally excreted. 

How does one measure impairment on the road? Again, we 

simply don’t know. 

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Single Convention on Psychotropic Substances, since 1972. 

Marijuana is on the list. Were we to legalize it, we would be 

about the only United Nations member to do so. Pot was 

legal in numerous mideastern countries, probably since 

ancient times; it’s not anymore. One by one, these nations 

chose to make it illegal. Many of them did so because 

marijuana appeared to make some of their citizens apathetic 

and cognitively impaired. Did they seem to know something 

we didn’t (or don’t)? Since the early seventies, mental health 

researchers have defined something labelled “amotivational 

syndrome”, believed to be caused by excessive marijuana 

use, particularly by teens. Do we really need to have this 

added to problems this society already has? Don’t forget, it’s 

not your parents’ weed anymore, but something much more 

potent. 

My difficulties with recreational weed lie mainly in that we 

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inside from spending a day on the water. The owner will consider owner financing with a 

considerable down payment. 

MLS #: R98911 


178 Soundside Drive Hertford, NC 27944 

LOCATED IN NE NORTH CAROLINA THIS CUSTOM BUILT HOME IS LOCATED IN 

ALBEMARLE PLANTATION ALOCATED ON ALBEMARLE SOUND A GATED 

COMMUNITY. OFFERING A MARINA, 18 HOLE GOLF COURSE, TENNIS, POOL 

COMMUNITY CENTER ETC. THIS IS THE OPEN FLOOR PLAN THAT YOU HAVE 

BEEN WAITING FOR. GREAT ROOM OPENS ONTO SUNROOM AND THREE SEASON 

ROOM. GREAT FOR ENTERTAINING. FROG CAN BE MEDIA ROOM, OFFICE OR BR. 

MLS #: R98973 


302 Main Street Winfall, NC 27985 

Rare opportunity to find a waterfront property with an attached garage and a detached 

garage/workshop that offers plenty of storage! This Albemarle Soundfront home offers 

breathtaking views of the water and includes a pier and a boatlift. An ideal location for 

those looking for a peaceful spot in the country on the water. Home includes 3 bedrooms, 

2.5 bathrooms, sunroom, laundry room, and office. The large attic offers plenty of storage 

space and could easily be finished off. 

This house has so much charm! 5 Fireplaces! Granite Countertop in Kitchen, Replacement 

Windows ; Wrap Around Porch and 6 Fruit Bearing trees in the back yard along with Hibiscus 

and PECAN TREE! Appliances Convey including a huge Freezer in Kitchen, Washer, Dryer, 

2 Microwaves and Refrigerator. Two Storage Buildings and a nice Walk up Attic Space allows 

for plenty of storage. Arrange your tour today! This awesome deal won't last long. 

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