Archive for March, 2008

Weathermen will tell you a hurricane hit the coast of North Carolina in 1876, but the people in the small town of Swanquarter say it was a blessing from God.

Swanquarter lies on the coast of the Tarheel State. It’s so small it’s unincorporated - the only unincorporated county seat in America. Swanquarter’s people have fished the waters of the Pamlico Sound for hundreds of years. But the waters, and God, never played a more dramatic role than they did on September 16th and 17th, 1876.

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I’ve just interviewed a Romanian man who has been in the United States since the early 80s. We got onto the subject of religion. He’s a baptized member of the Greek Orthodox faith, and he talked about how his grandparents took him to church. He said that if you didn’t have grandparents [...]

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