As I drove along the Black River, I thought about the history of Sampson County's once legendary wild blueberries. Long before the country's first blueberry farm was established, the county's wild blueberries were famous as far away as New York City and Boston. Locals called them "huckleberries." In the rest of the world, they were known as the "Sampson blues."
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Bass Player Willie Weeks Comes Home
Taking the back way home from Wilmington, I drove through the little town of Salemburg-- and that's when I saw the mural: the legendary bass player Willie Weeks, bigger than life.
David Cecelski 