* The Endless Chain Pig Club actually, for real, swear to god, existed in Washington NC in 1917. Each member of the club was given a purebred pig of which he became full owner when he gave another boy a gilt pig. I am not making this up. The purpose of “farm boy clubs” was to help Beaufort County become more self sustaining, food -wise. My info comes from Washington and the Pamlico by Ursula Loy and Pauline Worthy.
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What do the following have in common?
Southern Literature
IBX
Washington, NC
Downtown historic Washington
The Turnage Theater
Bill’s Hot Dogs
estuarium.com
The U.S. Postal Service
Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest
and
The Society for the Preservation of Southern Vernacular?
Robert MacEwan, Ruth Heinold
Phoebe Kate, The Toddler Reality Show
Thompson, Frances, Linus, Thisbe
I got rice cooking in the microwave
Answer: Each one is either: the name of something or the words to a song.