The Rev. Adam Scott was a Pentecostal Holiness minister born in Goldsboro, N.C., in 1890. He went on to become barbecue royalty. He was called a "barbecue artist" and the "Barbecue King" of Eastern North Carolina. In 1933, he threw a barbecue for Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House's Rose Garden, bless its dearly departed soul.
Month: November 2025
“Charles Branford was a black army recruit in Wilson, N.C.”
There are times when I hear a story, sometimes even a very small story, that seems to say more about our history than a whole shelf of history books. On Facebook yesterday, the historian Dr. Charles McKinney related such a story about North Carolina during World War II.
On the Shores of Harkers Island, 1944
As German submarines torpedoed merchant ships out in the Atlantic, one of the islanders was assigned to search the beaches for corpses. Others, when they heard the explosions offshore, had the duty of taking their boats far out into the Atlantic to search for survivors and the dead. (Photo-essay #18 in my "Working Lives" series.)
David Cecelski 