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V/hile v;e v/ere at the Tovm Hall, soueone came to ask vjIigtg Bay Drive is. Do
you knov7? "Je didn't. It connects ICnollv/ood and Pinewood, and the PIKSCO
ocean park fronts on it,
AH ON-GOIrlG PvEQU'-jLT — Nev; magazines (not more than a couple of months old)
and x^aperback books in good condition arc needed at the hosiDital. They ijdll
be on the cart . hich go-js to patients’ rooms so that patients can select
something to read. If you have any you v;ould like to donate, please call
Irene Doreiiius (726-8l64), And please, keep bringing them regularly^ Also,
jigsav; pu-zlcs which v/ould fit on a lap tray viov.ld be very uelcome,
A REUi'DEP - Pine Knoll Association \\rill hold its annual meeting June 11 at
2:00 at the Bogue Banks Country Club, PIKSCO*s annual meeting v/ill be
held July 9 at 10:00 at the I.arine P.esources Center*
PINE Iu':OLL SHOPv S G/'J^.DjTiT CLUB held its annual meeting and lunchoon a’: the
Pamada Inn, iionday, Udj 23« Janet Robbins introduced i rs. i'cll jT;d\/ards, past
Director of District 11, \/ho installed the new officers with a candle-rainbovj
ceremony - IlrSe Vivian iiacdonald. President; iirs, Audrey Hoffmeyer, Vice-
President; l^rs. Peg I-ansfiold, Recording Secretary; hrs. Connie Browne,
Corresponding »Secretary; I;rs« Ann Ratliffe, Treasurer; and iirs. Peg Ivnight,
Project Chairman,
Audrey Hoffmeyer announced that the first meeting of the n:v; year would be
held at the Ixj.rine Rosourc^s Cent'i, June 27? a learning session about
annuals, perennials, and biennials. Vivian Liacdonald presented Janet
Robbins vjith a gift from the uiembors in recognition of a year in v;hich club
members had "learned, car^d and shared."
IiilNY OF US bank at ''Jachovia, and if you arc like us,, you may have v/ondered
v/here that name cc.me from. Thousands of Pennsylvania emigres - Scotch,
Gormans, V'elsh - made their v/ay south over the Great PhiPadelphia ^fagon Road.
The lioravians bought nearly 100,000 acres v/hich they called -^achau after the
Austrian estate of Count Zinzendorf, leader of the Moravian Church, • In
1753 fifteen i.oravian men set out on foot from Pennsylvania, and t\;elve
settled in Carolina near ^Jinston Salem, These Moravians held their first
fellowship meeting or Love Feast in North Carolina in an abandoned hunters’
cabin while v/olves hov/led in the forost around them. The name ^^achau become
■Wachovia when the English language v/as employed, and from this English
version of >/’’achau, "Jachovia Bank whose home office is in ’^inston Salem took
its name,
.'VER VfOKDER •about the Lords Proprietors who v/ere so important in Carolina
history? King Charles II paid his political debts by making huge grants to
those men who had helped restore him to the throne of England, The Pro
prietors v/ero granted all the territory betv:een 3^ 31 degrees vjcstv/ard
to the "South Seas" (the Pacific), For tnis they were to pay 20 marks of
lawful English money annually plus one fourth of all the gold and silver
found. They could incorporate tovrns, cities, and ports of entry, erect
"maniors", and confer titles of nobility. It \;as a system v/hich divided
Carolina into counties, signories, b ronios, and iDrecinctr held by a colonial
nobility with titles ranging from Palatine to Cacique, The Proprietors
and the nobility v;ere to hold tv/o-thirds of the land, and the rest would be
granted to settlers. As they tried to attract settlers, the proprietors
granted land on the basis of a headright — each "undertaker" received 100
acres for hinself, 50 for each manservant capable of bearing arms, 30 for
each woman servant. And at the end of their indenture, men and women ser* ’
vants v/ere to be given 10 and 6 acres respectively. Here in North Carolina,
there were Landgraves, among whom \iere Christoph Von Graffenried, a Swiss,
who planted the colonj^ at Bern, a.nd Christopher Gale who was one of the
men in charge of the first group sent by Von Graffenried, So we go v/ay back
to a feudal systei.., and even t. a fev/ who clung to their titles even after
the system was obsolete.