The weird history of a cigarette-smoking, hog-riding monkey and NC barbecue mascot
Did that really happen? A Raleigh resident wanted to know. Yes, an escaped circus simian once entertained barbecue customers in rural North Carolina.
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Did that really happen? A Raleigh resident wanted to know. Yes, an escaped circus simian once entertained barbecue customers in rural North Carolina.
Historian David Cecelski has compiled a selection of photographs from an album the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Office of History discovered in their historical collections a few years ago.
Note from the author, North Carolina historian David Cecelski: This is an updated version of a short essay that I first published two years ago. To write this version, I
In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.
New Bern Historical Society 100th Anniversary Event