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Re: ping owl: it's a small world

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owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>> On 11/5/2018 12:22 PM, owl wrote:
>>> DFS <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>> I recently found out I have relatives in Kannapolis.
>>>>
>>>> They're my Mom's cousins, and they live on Concord Lake Rd.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Oh yeah, I think I know who you're talking about.  The youngest one's
>>> a waterhead, right?
>> 
>> 
>> We call him Punkinhead!
>> 
> 
> Y'all got some people in Richmond too, I think. 
>  
>> 
>>>> Note: Concord Lake Rd. turns into Lake Concord Rd.  A Linux advocate
>>>> must've been in charge of street names that day.
>>>>
>>> 
>>> It used to be all Lake Concord Rd, AFAIK.  I only recently found out
>>> that part of it is now called Concord Lake Rd.  There were some road
>>> additions and extensions in the 70s in that area, but I don't really know
>>> when they changed the name.  Of course, I could be wrong here though.
>>> I just know that we always use to call the whole thing Lake Concord Rd,
>>> and I never heard anybody refer to "Concord Lake Rd."  I can barely
>>> remember what that area used to look like.  Things have changed so
>>> much.
>> 
>> 
>> Hope not
>> https://www.nytimes.com/1898/05/30/archives/two-negroes-put-to-death-lynched-at-concord-nc-for-assaulting-and.html
> 
> Damn.  It says 1500 men attacked the jail.  I hope they didn't mess
> anything up.
> 
> https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/05/30/102562694.pdf
> 
> The girl was 12 years old.
> 
> https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39849462/emma-hartsell
> 
> Somebody needs to take care of Gohde before he does something like that,
> if he hasn't already.
> 

Site of the lynching:
https://imgur.com/a/cwIhJ8Q

http://lynching.web.unc.edu/the-people/joe-kizer-and-tom-johnson/
<quote>
...
The sheriff suspected Tom Johnson and took Johnson to the county jail
where Johnson confessed and implicated Kizer.
...
A coroner’s jury found the men guilty of the rape and murder of Amy
Hartsell after the lynching. Afterward, limbs of the dogwood tree was
used to make walking sticks and other mementos of the lynching.
</quote>

I'd pay good money for one of those.

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ping owl: it's a small world DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 11:07 -0500
  Re: ping owl: it's a small world SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 11:26 -0500
    Re: ping owl: it's a small world DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:23 -0500
  Re: ping owl: it's a small world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 17:22 +0000
    Re: ping owl: it's a small world DFS <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 12:47 -0500
      Re: ping owl: it's a small world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 19:23 +0000
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-05 12:27 -0700
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 11:47 -0800
          Re: ping owl: it's a small world Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-11-05 17:01 -0800
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2018-11-05 20:07 +0000
        Re: ping owl: it's a small world SilverSlimer <silver@slim.er> - 2018-11-05 19:17 -0500
          Re: ping owl: it's a small world Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2018-11-06 01:09 +0000

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