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Head East for Second Half

of NC’s Favorite BBQ Trail

IN THIS ISSUE:

The Story ofMistaken ID ofthe KidnappedLindbergh Boy

PreservingOutdoorArchaeologicalSites

NC Hwy 301EndlessYardsale

Apple PC isTreasure notTrash

June / July 2015

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Pickers PedalsPassions & Blundersis a NC-based publication.

Mailing address...PO Box 578Rolesville, NC 27571

Publisher...M. Dale Swiggett336.340.6299

Editor...Renee Warren919.880.5217rtwdesigns@embarqmailcom

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Pickers Pedals Passions &Blunders is an eclecticmix of unique items, pas-sions, events and bargainsand the people who lovethem. Our mission is toprovide more exposure ona monthly basis for an-tique and collectible deal-ers in order to connect toconsumers who want tofind those dealers. There’salways this unquenchablethirst to add to one’s col-lection and to find thatever elusive item, whetherit be a piece of period fur-niture, a doll, a tea pot, ora vintage piece of farmequipment. We just wantto connect folks so that ev-eryone can buy and sellthe things that we all love.

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

Hwy 301 Endless Yardsale in NC......................21

FRONT COVER....This mouth watering, make-you-drool-all-over-yourself pictureis of a classic barbecue sandwich that put Smith Mountain Dockand Lodge up at Smith Mountain Lake on our map for one ofthe photographer’s favorite haunts. Though it’s not in NC, it’s afavorite of ours and close-as-cousins to our take on BBQ.

Photographer - Dale Swiggett, Publisher of PPP&B

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ctors & Samples

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World’s Record Barbeque Grill-Off to

Raise Awareness for PSTD Victims....Part II

Starting point for What Could be World’ sRecord BBQ Grill-Off began May 2nd,

2015

As promised, here is the secondhalf of what I refer to as the “holypilgrimage across NC for the best‘cue” list. Yeah, us NorthCarolinians really take our porkseriously, folks.

I took the list featured on the NCBBQ Society’s website and addeda couple of other restaurants thatpretty much make up the CulinaryDream Drive, well, at least for meanyway.

A lot of the featured eateriesbegan with humble roots, folkswho just make the best BBQ andbefore they knew it, they werefeeding the entire community. Suchsuccess stories start in someone’sbackyard or barn.

I highly encourage everyonewho travels NC to try and stop atone or more of these greatrestaurants for a true down Southgastro experience beyond compare.And we promise we won’t laugh

http://www.ncbbqsociety.com/bbqmap/trail_map.html

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when you spill BBQ sauce down yourshirt front. ☺

- Dale Swiggett

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#13...Hill’s Lexington Barbecue in Winston-Salem

#14...Fuzzy’s in Madison

#15...Short Sugar’s Drive-In

in Reidsville

Picture of specified pig parts.

Family pig pickin’

We are what werepeatedly do.

Barbecue, then,is not an act,but a habit.– Aristotle

Some greathumorous quotes(true or not, we

have no clue butthey sound

plausible enough)thanks to

noexcusesbbq.com/bbq-quotes

I barbecue,therefore I am.

– Rene Descartes

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#16...Stamey’s Barbecue in Greensboro

#17...Hursey’s Barbecue in Burlington

#18...Allen & Son Barbecue in Chapel Hill

Antique cast iron pig BBQ grill

Beam me up Scotty.There is no goodbarbecue on this

planet.– James T. Kirk

Experience issimply the name wegive our barbecue

mistakes.– Oscar Wilde

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#19...Stephenson’s Barbecue in Willow Springs

#20...Grady’s Barbecue in Dudley

#21...Wilber’s Barbecue in Goldsboro

Spare rib anyone?– Adam

It is better to haveburnt and lost,

then never to havebarbecued at all.

– WilliamShakespeare

Pit cooked BBQ, old photocourtesy of NC Archives

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#22...Jack Cobb & Son Barbecue Place in Farmville

#23...B’s Barbecue in Greenville

#24...Skylight Inn in Ayden

The better part ofone’s life consistsof his barbecues.

– Abraham Lincoln

Barbecuing is onepercent inspiration,

and ninety-ninepercent perspiration.

– Thomas Edison

How many of our readers either used toown or currently own one of these?!

This piece of movable hardware was anabsolute necessity in most households

many decades ago.

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#25...Pigman’s Bar-b-q in Kill Devil Hills

Too bad all thepeople who know

how to run thecountry are busydriving 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!

Enertia® Building Systems, Inc.P.O. Box 845, Youngsville, NC 27596enertia.com

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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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iANTIQUE.com is asocial computingcommunity that aims tobring 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.

Network with Fellow Collectors...iAntique.com

We want toencourage our readerswho are comfortablewith surfin’ the internetand different websitesto drop in and visit oneof the coolest andmost helpful sitescalled iAntique.com.

Dan Briddlerecognized that anonline forum wasneeded for people tomeet and converse witheach other about theirpassions. Dan agreeswith us that it’s allabout sharingknowledge andeducating newcomersto antiques.

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Passions....

Never Forgetting Our Veterans

Though all of us here at PPP&Bmade a decision to not delve intothe murky arenas of anythingpotentially touching controversial,just sticking with our mission of atool connecting all those passionateabout old, moldy and recycledthings, we all agreed that we couldand should voice our stance on howour nation’s veterans and currentlyserving military are treated and inan add-insult-to-injury manner.

Many of us come from militaryfamilies, some of us with longancestoral lineages going back tothe American Revolutionary War.This very publication is based outof North Carolina, one of theNation’s largest concentration ofmilitary hardware and assets.

Our Warriors sign on the dottedline a blank check, despite the fact

that many knowingly do so inconflict with the very policies setby global self interestsmasquerading as trusted publicofficials.

Many of our military are cominghome with problems that are notbeing addressed properly and mostcertainly are being pushed to the

Editor’s Note...

One of the best places to checkout is PTSD Foundation.

As per their stated MissionStatement...”PTSD Foundationof America is a non-profit orga-nization dedicated to mentoringto our combat veterans and theirfamilies with post traumaticstress. Many warriors are com-ing home with visible wounds;countless others are coming

home with scars we cannot see,wounded souls from witnessingthe horrors of war over and overagain – PTSD. We feel it is ourduty as Americans to help thesemighty warriors and their fami-lies adjust and find their new nor-mal.”

Be sure to visit their website,http://ptsdusa.org/

- Renee Warren

corners. We at PPP&B encourageall of our readers to supporting realorganizations dedicated to helpingthose who signed that blank check.

Know the charitableorganizations you want to donateto. Do your due diligence as tofinding out the best organization foryour support.

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Archaeological Findings are Important to our HistorySANFORD, NC

The best-preserved boulders arehandsomely shaped to this day,considering they were chiseledback when the Civil War thun-dered.

But such survivors are gettingharder to find at the Endor IronFurnace, hidden in the woods inLee County, an hour’s drive fromRaleigh. Only the base of the fur-nace is visible, and most of thestonework is badly chipped,cracked or crumbled.

A year ago the furnace – whichmelted ore for the pig iron used tomanufacture munitions and rail-way wheels to aid the Confeder-ate cause – resembled a Mayanruin disintegrating in the woods.

Last year, as restoration effortsstarted, more than 600 fallen andloose boulders were removed, la-beled, cataloged and mapped with

How Pros View DiggersArchaeology is romantic, it is

grubby and tedious too. Like allscholarship archaeology seeksinformation. Archaeologists un-cover material remains, datethem and try to understand thepast in which they existed a littlebetter. Artifacts, per se, havevalue for archaeology only ifthey are located in their properplace, the site where they wentto rest. This is remarkably dif-ferent from what "point hunt-

ers," "pot hunters," and metaldetectorists do; they usually hunt ar-tifacts for the sake of collecting ar-tifacts or to gather items with mar-ket value. That is why archaeolo-gists tend to fear the collectors whocare little or nothing at all about theinformation value of their col-lectibles. This explains their pru-dent secrecy about the location ofone or another site.

For as sure as the Sun rises inthe east, when collectors learn of anancient site within days it will bechurned as though hogs rootedthrough it.

Tom Magnuson,founder ofTrading PathsAssociation inHillsborough,NC. Tom is ac e r t i f i a b l e

odologist: a seeker of old roads/trails/paths (specializing in find-ing 17th and 18th century roads,trails, and paths), and is the non-profit manager of TPA. TPA is a 501C3 non-profit lo-cated in Hillsborough, NorthCarolina, USA. Its purpose is tofind, map, and protect landscaperemnants of the contact and co-lonial era in southeastern NorthAmerica, on England's firstAmerican frontier. PPP&B feels very stronglyabout preserving old sites andasks readers to do the same.

the precision of an archaeologicaldig.

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