Morganton

There's a lot of people out there don't know who you are.

Well, um, course my name is Perry Carter I live in Morganton North Carolina and I drive for cargo transporters out of Claremont North Carolina I actually on my way back to Claremont with my load that I picked up in Garland Texas and we're gonna take it to the yard and drop it tomorrow evening late I've been driving for 37 years and I have over three million safe driving miles.

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Still nothing, Tim.

There, deep amid the Blue Ridge Mountains, rises the crest called the Great Erie.

Its huge, rounded form is distinctly seen from the little town of Morganton, on the Catawba River, and still more clearly as one approaches the mountains by way of the village of Pleasant Gardens.

Why the name of Great Erie was originally given this mountain by the people of the surrounding region, I am not quite sure.

It rises rocky and grim and inaccessible, and under certain atmospheric conditions has a peculiarly blue and distant effect.

Curiosity among those who, being in no danger themselves, were interested in the disturbance merely as a strange phenomenon of nature.

Fear in those who were likely to be the victims if a catastrophe actually occurred.

Those more immediately threatened were the citizens of Morganton, and even more the good folk of Pleasant Garden and the hamlets and farms yet closer to the mountains.

assuredly it was regrettable that mountain climbers had not previously attempted to ascend to the summit of the great erie the cliffs of rock which surrounded it had never been scaled perhaps they might offer no path by which even the most daring climber could penetrate to the interior yet if a volcanic eruption menaced all the western region of the carolinas then a complete examination of the mountain was become absolutely necessary Now before the actual ascent of the crater, with its many serious difficulties, was attempted, there was one way which offered an opportunity of reconnoitering the interior, without clambering up the precipices.

But for the most part, it's like a if college was high school sort of thing.

There's two campuses, one in Durham, North Carolina, and one in Morganton, North Carolina.

And I went to the Durham one.

I think that made a difference too, because the Durham one definitely has more black people than the Morganton campus.

Going to that school was actually huge in terms of my understanding of my hair, because this was the first time that I was in school with other black women.

The school science and math, I mean, it's not like predominantly black by any means, but the like minority cultures over there are very close knit.