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Front Porch

Front Porch When I first began to read a lot of American history, I thought the tales and the personalities were fascinating but still remote. Whether the subject was the space race or the Salem witches, nobody I knew seemed directly involved or especially kin to me. For many people, history is the most boring subject in school, but for me it was lots of neat but distant stories. That changed when I finally got around to the South. While I still didn't know or feel descended from anybody truly famous, events and tales I had heard about at home began showing up between hard covers. The War was the obvious example, still spoken of in hushed tones in certain family gatherings, but there were names as well. In the Carolinas alone, there were Hamptons, Tillmans, Macons, Worths, Aycocks, Loves, some guy named "Legare," and dozens more examples from other states. I still didn't know anybody famous, but I began to realize in a In this issue Daniel Levinson Wilk revisits the Phoenix riot, which began at the general store owned by coeditor Harry L. Watson's great grandfather. Here, one of the rioters' descendents returns to view the burned-out remains http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Front Porch

Watson, Harry L.
Southern Cultures , Volume 8 (4) – Nov 27, 2002
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When I first began to read a lot of American history, I thought the tales and the personalities were fascinating but still remote. Whether the subject was the space race or the Salem witches, nobody I knew seemed directly involved or especially kin to me. For many people, history is the most boring subject in school, but for me it was lots of neat but distant stories. That changed when I finally got around to the South. While I still didn't know or feel descended from anybody truly famous, events and tales I had heard about at home began showing up between hard covers. The War was the obvious example, still spoken of in hushed tones in certain family gatherings, but there were names as well. In the Carolinas alone, there were Hamptons, Tillmans, Macons, Worths, Aycocks, Loves, some guy named "Legare," and dozens more examples from other states. I still didn't know anybody famous, but I began to realize in a In this issue Daniel Levinson Wilk revisits the Phoenix riot, which began at the general store owned by coeditor Harry L. Watson's great grandfather. Here, one of the rioters' descendents returns to view the burned-out remains

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