by Barbara Lemos | Apr 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Moonshining–the night-time distillation of “bootleg” whiskey known as “moonshine”–didn’t begin during Prohibition, nor did it end when Prohibition ended. This secretive tradition predates the Civil War, continued into the 1970s, and was active in North...
by Barbara Lemos | Apr 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Nearly 100 folks participated – from Coronavirus self-isolation – in this week’s Zoom presentation by Liz Fuller of the Southport Historical Society on “Southport and the 1918 Flu Pandemic.” Last week, Liz said World War I claimed 16 million lives around the...
by Barbara Lemos | Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Southport played a vital role in World War I, the “War to End All Wars.” Today, we are once more called upon to fight a global threat, the Coronavirus pandemic, leaving us suddenly isolated from friends, family, jobs, and avocations—circumstances our Cape Fear...
