June / July 2015
IN THIS ISSUE: The Story of Mistaken ID of the Kidnapped Lindbergh Boy Preserving Outdoor Archaeological Sites NC Hwy 301 Endless Yardsale Apple PC is Treasure not Trash
Head East for Second Half of NC’s Favorite BBQ Trail 1
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What Fun Stuff is Inside June?
NC Barbecue from West to East - Part II ........... 4 iAntique.com for Networking ............................ 11 Archaeological Finds Outdoors........................13 Old Apple Computer - Treasure Not Trash ...... 14 My Father Was Mistaken as the Kidnapped Lindbergh Son ................................18
Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders is an eclectic mix of unique items, passions, events and bargains and the people who love them. Our mission is to provide more exposure on a monthly basis for antique and collectible dealers in order to connect to consumers who want to find those dealers. There’s always this unquenchable thirst to add to one’s collection and to find that ever elusive item, whether it be a piece of period furniture, a doll, a tea pot, or a vintage piece of farm equipment. We just want to connect folks so that everyone can buy and sell the things that we all love.
Pickers Pedals Passions & Blunders is a NC-based publication.
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FRONT COVER.... This mouth watering, make-you-drool-all-over-yourself picture is of a classic barbecue sandwich that put Smith Mountain Dock and Lodge up at Smith Mountain Lake on our map for one of the photographer’s favorite haunts. Though it’s not in NC, it’s a favorite of ours and close-as-cousins to our take on BBQ. Photographer - Dale Swiggett, Publisher of PPP&B 3
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World’s Record Barbeque Grill-Off to Raise Awareness for PSTD Victims....Part II
As promised, here is the second half of what I refer to as the “holy pilgrimage across NC for the best ‘cue” list. Yeah, us North Carolinians really take our pork seriously, folks. I took the list featured on the NC BBQ Society’s website and added a couple of other restaurants that pretty much make up the Culinary Dream Drive, well, at least for me anyway. A lot of the featured eateries began with humble roots, folks who just make the best BBQ and before they knew it, they were feeding the entire community. Such success stories start in someone’s backyard or barn. I highly encourage everyone who travels NC to try and stop at one or more of these great restaurants for a true down South gastro experience beyond compare. And we promise we won’t laugh
Starting point for What Could be World’s Record BBQ Grill-Off began May 2nd, 2015
http://www.ncbbqsociety.com/bbqmap/trail_map.html when you spill BBQ sauce down your shirt front. ☺ - Dale Swiggett 4
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#13...Hill’s Lexington Barbecue in Winston-Salem Some great humorous quotes (true or not, we have no clue but they sound plausible enough) thanks to noexcusesbbq.com/ bbq-quotes
#14...Fuzzy’s in Madison
Picture of specified pig parts.
I barbecue, therefore I am. – Rene Descartes
#15...Short Sugar’s Drive-In in Reidsville
Family pig pickin’
We are what we repeatedly do. Barbecue, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle NC BBQ Trail continued next pg 5
#16...Stamey’s Barbecue in Greensboro
Experience is simply the name we give our barbecue mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
#17...Hursey’s Barbecue in Burlington
Antique cast iron pig BBQ grill
#18...Allen & Son Barbecue in Chapel Hill
Beam me up Scotty. There is no good barbecue on this planet. – James T. Kirk
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#19...Stephenson’s Barbecue in Willow Springs It is better to have burnt and lost, then never to have barbecued at all. – William Shakespeare
#20...Grady’s Barbecue in Dudley
Pit cooked BBQ, old photo courtesy of NC Archives
#21...Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro
Spare rib anyone? – Adam
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#22...Jack Cobb & Son Barbecue Place in Farmville
The better part of one’s life consists of his barbecues. – Abraham Lincoln
#23...B’s Barbecue in Greenville
#24...Skylight Inn in Ayden
How many of our readers either used to own or currently own one of these?! This piece of movable hardware was an absolute necessity in most households many decades ago.
Barbecuing is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Edison
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#25...Pigman’s Bar-b-q in Kill Devil Hills Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing. – George Burns
....and an Honorable Mention goes to Mission BBQ in Jacksonville
What’s better than a pig on the grill? TWO pigs on the grill!
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Just about all restaurants have great merchandise lines, specifically colorful t-shirts. One of the perks to building great memories is all the cool t-shirts one can add to all their vacation photos.
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Network with Fellow Collectors...iAntique.com We want to encourage our readers who are comfortable with surfin’ the internet and different websites to drop in and visit one of the coolest and most helpful sites called iAntique.com. Dan Briddle recognized that an online forum was needed for people to meet and converse with each other about their passions. Dan agrees with us that it’s all about sharing knowledge and educating newcomers to antiques. iANTIQUE.com is a social computing community that aims to bring the romance back to the antiques industry. We have the basic features you expect: classifieds, blogs, discussions, pictures, business listings and events, next we add live and recorded Internet-based workshops, 24x7 live audio/ video chat rooms, plus we will be hosting live group events between locations.
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Passions....
Never Forgetting Our Veterans
Though all of us here at PPP&B made a decision to not delve into the murky arenas of anything potentially touching controversial, just sticking with our mission of a tool connecting all those passionate about old, moldy and recycled things, we all agreed that we could and should voice our stance on how our nation’s veterans and currently serving military are treated and in an add-insult-to-injury manner. Many of us come from military families, some of us with long ancestoral lineages going back to the American Revolutionary War. This very publication is based out of North Carolina, one of the Nation’s largest concentration of military hardware and assets. Our Warriors sign on the dotted line a blank check, despite the fact
that many knowingly do so in conflict with the very policies set by global self interests masquerading as trusted public officials. Many of our military are coming home with problems that are not being addressed properly and most certainly are being pushed to the
Editor’s Note... One of the best places to check out is PTSD Foundation. As per their stated Mission Statement...”PTSD Foundation of America is a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring to our combat veterans and their families with post traumatic stress. Many warriors are coming home with visible wounds; countless others are coming 12
corners. We at PPP&B encourage all of our readers to supporting real organizations dedicated to helping those who signed that blank check. Know the charitable organizations you want to donate to. Do your due diligence as to finding out the best organization for your support.
home with scars we cannot see, wounded souls from witnessing the horrors of war over and over again – PTSD. We feel it is our duty as Americans to help these mighty warriors and their families adjust and find their new normal.” Be sure to visit their website, http://ptsdusa.org/ - Renee Warren
Archaeological Findings are Important to our History SANFORD, NC The best-preserved boulders are handsomely shaped to this day, considering they were chiseled back when the Civil War thundered. But such survivors are getting harder to find at the Endor Iron Furnace, hidden in the woods in Lee County, an hour’s drive from Raleigh. Only the base of the furnace is visible, and most of the stonework is badly chipped, cracked or crumbled. A year ago the furnace – which melted ore for the pig iron used to manufacture munitions and railway wheels to aid the Confederate cause – resembled a Mayan ruin disintegrating in the woods.
Last year, as restoration efforts started, more than 600 fallen and loose boulders were removed, labeled, cataloged and mapped with
How Pros View Diggers Archaeology is romantic, it is grubby and tedious too. Like all scholarship archaeology seeks information. Archaeologists uncover material remains, date them and try to understand the past in which they existed a little better. Artifacts, per se, have value for archaeology only if they are located in their proper place, the site where they went to rest. This is remarkably different from what "point hunt-
ers," "pot hunters," and metal detectorists do; they usually hunt artifacts for the sake of collecting artifacts or to gather items with market value. That is why archaeologists tend to fear the collectors who care little or nothing at all about the information value of their collectibles. This explains their prudent secrecy about the location of one or another site. For as sure as the Sun rises in the east, when collectors learn of an ancient site within days it will be churned as though hogs rooted through it.
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the precision of an archaeological dig. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/ news/local/ article18529232.html#storylink=cpy Tom Magnuson, founder of Trading Paths Association in Hillsborough, NC. Tom is a certifiable odologist: a seeker of old roads/ trails/paths (specializing in finding 17th and 18th century roads, trails, and paths), and is the nonprofit manager of TPA. TPA is a 501C3 non-profit located in Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA. Its purpose is to find, map, and protect landscape remnants of the contact and colonial era in southeastern North America, on England's first American frontier. PPP&B feels very strongly about preserving old sites and asks readers to do the same.