Brunswick Between Bookends
By Al Arntsen
MARCHING ON. By James
Boyd. Published in 1927. No.
of pages 426. Available at
Southport Public Library.
As an historical novel this one
stands on its own merits. I found
it quite absorbing, containing just
the right mixture of rich de
scriptive phrases and well-written
dialogue.
Though the locale is given as
the Cape Fear country generally,
one finds much in these pages to
support the feeling that this
might very well have happened
right in or around Southport.
Author Boyd, in well chosen
words, brings before our eyes
“the Cape Fear Plantations form
ing merely a narrow strip of
splendor which followed the rich
land by the river from Wilming
ton down to the sea’’. In contrast,
outside this lay the swamp and
forest where no one lived but a
few poor farmers and the de
spised “Crackers”. This second
group were the outcasts who
made their living by stealing and
begging from the Planters.
Against this background the
writer brings into focus the ways
in which the War Between the
States affected the people of
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Brunswick County and Wilming- |
ton. Each of us know that his- i
torically the Cape Fear section I
stands out for its part in all
phases of our country's past. This
was not any less true during the
Civil War years.
Rather than making this a
drama of major political decisions j
and brilliant speeches by great i
men, the author has chosen an- i
other approach. He creates James
Frazor, a poor farmer’s son as
the hero of the tale. Life was a
matter of bitter struggle and de- \
privation for the Fra26r family. 1
For Jim’s hard-working mother |
the object of life seemed to be
keeping their standards from
sinking to the level of the i
“Crackers”. As we are carried '
along by the story we find our- j
selves seeing the Civil War
through the eyes of these people.
James Frazor, the central char
acter, is a young boy whose ideas
of life are simple and limited.
Even happenings on the nearby
plantations were as far removed
from his drehms, and even his
envy as the moori was from earth.
Perversely, however, he fell in
love with the Colonel’s daughter
on the neighboring Plantation
and this unusual love story is
the one bright note in a book that
is mainly quite somber. The boy,
James, had always looked on the
issues that were leading us into
war as being quite simple and
clearly defined. He didn’t under
stand it all, but those Yankees
did need to be made to see the
right of it. He never felt though,
that he would ever be directly in
volved in any of it. It was soon
apparent that the situation was
getting closer and closer to home,
especially when, as the book puts
it, “Lincoln added the supreme
touch to Yankee folly by calling
on North Carolina for militia to
put down what he called rebellion
in the Southern States”. The Gov
ernor of the State’s answer to
this was to seige Fort Caswell
and call for volunteers. Now the
battle lines were drawn, and the:
end of peace came rapidly.
Our hero enlisted in the Cape !
Fear Rifles (very probably the
counterpart of the well-known
Brunswick Guard which were or
ganized here in Southport). Fol
lowing this, came the days of
i endless marching, little food and j
| confusing thoughts. We live with I
i him through the agony of battle
in which he lost many of his bud
dies. He was held by the Yankees
for a while, then sent home a
tired, worn man. His return home
i.o the beloved Cape Fear coin
cides with the capture of Fort
! Fisher, leading the story . to a
j climatic conclusion.
The message of* the book’s
human rather than partisan or
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political. It would be well worth
anyones time to read it, but for
those of us who live in Brunswick
County it has the added attrac
tion of being- a Novel with a
“rig-ht at home” feeling.
Garden Time
Plans are being made to use a
mechanical harvester for Musca
dine grapes in Onslow County
in September.
Tests will be conducted in the
Solly Ridge section of the coun
try. If interested, you might keep
this in mind and watch for furth
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The production of Muscadine
grapes—the Scuppernong variety
still being one of the best of this
family—has a good potential in
eastern North Carolina. High
quality varieties are excellent as
fresh fruit, in jams and jellies
and as unfermebted juice.
There are hundreds of gift
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of thousands of tourists eVery
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Coast tourists either, or your
supermarkets.
I will let you in on a little
secret. There is a growing inter
est on the West Coast in the
production of Muscadine grapes.
A column that I wrote about
Muscadines some months ago got
in the farm journal which has
good western coverage. As a re
sult I had a letter from a grape
grower who requested informa
tion on the production of Musca
dine grapes.
He said that he and his broth
er had over a hundred acres of
Vinifera (old World or “Cali
fornia”) grapes but he had heard
so much about the delightful Mus
cadine that he wanted to try
some and expand his acreage if
the project proved to be success
ful.
Since that time—and get this—
we have had a full-time staff
member from the University of
California who spent one semes
ter of his sabbatical leave on our
campus. His belief interests while
here? The production and pro
cessing of Muscadine grapes and
an advanced course in statistics.
His enthusiasm for the possibili
ties he saw in the processing of
Muscadines? Unbounded! If I
have ever known a man more
enthusiastic about a single crop,
I can’t remember him. He spent
a major portion of his time in the
laboratory analyzing juices, ex
tracted from a large number of
Muscadine varieties, for sugars,
solids, etc.
Since his return to his station
at Davis, he has been made
chairman of the Division of Viti
culture (grape-growing), a large
and expanding industry in Cali
fornia.
We could, very profitably,
spend more time in North Caro
lina developing the opportunities
we have, rather than worrying
too much about what we have
not.
Boiling Spring
Lakes Team Wins
The lady bowlers of Boiling!
Spring Lakes took a 3-1 victory
from Watson’s Pharmacy to re
tain their first place position in I
the Summer Bowling League.
The victory last Wednesday j
night at the Bowling Center was
led by Sylvia James with a three
game series of 421. Second high
score was a 394 by Joy Gregory.
Margaret Hickman had a 360 and
Dot Manis bowled a 339.
Mrs. Gregory had the high
game Of 168.
Boiling Spring Lakes will have
their next game tonight at the
Bowling Center in Wilmington.
Leading scorers for the losers
were Lena Fisher with a 379,
| Evelyn Gilbert with a 301 and
' Maiie Brown with a 280. Vir
, ginia Walton is away on vacation.
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“Meet The Sails”
!
Foxy Howard. Jr., is only 19
i years of age but has already been
playing organized ball for almost
k decade. He played on his first
Li tie League team in Clarksdale.
Mississippi, in 1952 as a pitcher.
I in 1953-54-55 he was in Southport
| playing on the Little League
■ Teams. When the Howard family
i moved to Columbia in 1956 and
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FOXY HOWARD
in those cities as a pitcher and
catcher. Back in Columbia in
1958, Foxy played American Jun
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and catcher; then oh to Hamlet
in 1959 and the Richmond County
American Legion Jufridr team as
a second sacker.
Foxy returned to Southport
with his family in the summer
of 1959 and latched on to the
Sails as a substitute second base
man, seeing only limited duty dur
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three years he played on the
Southport High School team, al
ternating between shortstop and
second base. In 1961 Foxy was
the only Dolphin to get at least
one hit in every game that the
Southport High School team play
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This year he has moved into
the starting line-up for the Sails
at second base. A good base
runner, fast on his feet, and with
| t en years of baseball knowledge
i behind him. Foxy is the lead-off
; batter for the Sails. Currently
! batting .313 with ten hits, includ
| ing four doubles, for 32 official
times at bat, he has the fourth
highest batting average on the
Sails roster. Recently at Og
den Foxy had a good day with
two doubles, two walks and two
outfield flies for six trips to the
plate; and a bad day in the field
when he had the first error he
has made in a league game this
year charged against him.
Foxy will attend Wingate Col
lege this winter but will be back
in Southport- in time for the
I Sails first game next season.
Gape Fear League
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Southport . 8 2
j Seagate . 6 2
Leland .. 6 3
Ransom Township . 5 4
Hampstead . 5 5
Riegel . 5 5
Shallotte . 2 8
Ogden . 1 9
Leading Sails Batters
AB H Avg.
j John Carr Davis .... 31 12 .387
; Ronnie Hood . 24 9 .375
\ Jerry Spencer . 31 11 .355
1 Foxy Howard . 36 12 .333
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Leading the Harrelson victory
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high game of the evening was a
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Miss Dixon is the official lea
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