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... a mock wedding in which males dressed the roles of the entire wedding party, including the bride, mother of the bride, bridesmaids, and flower girl. These events were often fund-raisers, since many in the community were more than willing to pay admission to see their male neighbors in ridiculous female attire. - NCpedia

Brinkley鈥檚 beard was a late bloomer. According to newspaper accounts, until he was twenty one he had no beard to shave, then shaving only once a week to remove light fuzz. By twenty three, the growth had reached the astounding rate of a full beard in a week鈥檚 time. One article reported that the beard was entirely natural, not the result of restorers or invigorators. Another reported on its quality -- 鈥渟oft and beautiful, indicating a peculiarly fertile state of nourishment.鈥� - NCpedia

By mid-August Frick had installed the refrigerating device at a cost of $2,592, making the Tarboro pool what is believed to have been the first and perhaps only refrigerated outdoor pool in the country. Tarboro's 'cool pool' drew crowds of swimmers and swimming meets throughout the 1930s . Native Tarboro swimmers won blue ribbons all over the country during this period, as the town's unique pool helped put it firmly in the national swimming picture.

"According to the Raleigh Sentinel, had once participated in a talking contest with the biggest talker in Kentucky. When morning came, the Kentuckian was dead and Venable was found still whispering in his ear." - NCpedia

Ever do something so dumb that you just wanted to kick yourself? Tom Haywood, of Croatan, knew that feeling and figured other folks might sometimes feel that way, too. So during the summer of 1937, he and local handyman Wilber Herring built a contraption that would deliver a good, swift kick to the seat of the pants of any willing recipient. The simple machine consisted of a hand-operated crank connected by a belt and pulleys to a wheel. Four spokes, each with an old shoe attached, jutted out from the wheel. To get the boot, the operator just bent over and turned the crank. A Craven County commissioner, Haywood said he intended the kicking machine for his personal use, 鈥渢o perform the needed rebuke to my conscience.鈥� He kept it behind his house. But so many folks heard about the machine and wanted to use it that Haywood finally moved it to a shelter in front of his general store. The shelter stood at the roadside on U.S. 70, about ten miles east of New Bern. According to old newspaper accounts, the kicking machine got a good workout on Sunday afternoons from motorists going home from the beach. But at nighttime, the machine really got cranking. 鈥淎 lot of folks don鈥檛 want people to know they need a kick, so they wait until I close up at night and then come around,鈥� Haywood said. 鈥淟ate at night I can hear the machine just a squeaking outside.鈥� Haywood鈥檚 kicking machine soon became a local tourist attraction and, eventually, a national curiosity.>> Read the full entry.