Roadside Relics & Small Towns Crossing State Line From South Carolina Into North Carolina - Jan 2022
South Carolina into North Carolina
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here
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as a recording of this wednesday january
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26th
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2022 and i am just now departing
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myrtle beach south carolina where i will
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be heading across the state line into
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north carolina
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where i have until
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february first procured a hotel
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so i will be in the greensboro north
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carolina until the end of this month
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checking out of the next hotel on
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february
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1st
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and this would just be a simple
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oh
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there's someone in the chapel
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mom yes
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on in
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now we went to atlanta what was it
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right before halloween
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we were doing a road trip and you were
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in a small church building there
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now we're in myrtle beach yes and it's
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very nice in here
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very very nice every every time i do my
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intro and we're on a road trip and
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you're with me you're inside one of
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these chapels that's right
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inviting you to join me and my mom as we
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cross the state line out of south
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carolina and north carolina
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shall you
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all right mom give me a tour
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established
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1972. this looks a lot better than one
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we saw last night this is in much better
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shape
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yeah that's app yeah this is
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it looks like people have been in here
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on a regular basis
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they even have an air conditioner and a
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heater in here
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this is the traveler's chapel and that
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way people can stop
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truck drivers that are traveling through
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or people passing through that just
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wants to spend a little time with the
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lord and pray and just get some quiet
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time when they come in here and this is
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very nice they've kept this up really
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really nice compared to that last one we
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went to
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people have
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wrote down their thoughts there and that
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that book oh here's a little pamphlet
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1972 reverend emery young and his son
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bruce
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and many volunteers constructed the
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travelers chapel
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it was visited by hundreds of people
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each year local residents college
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students travelers
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operated and maintained by travelers
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track chapel incorporated there is an
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incorporation
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that takes care of these
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so i never realized that there are quite
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a few of these across the country i've
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probably seen at least a dozen
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in my travels
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you definitely have the heat on here
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mom has left a little
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a little message
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here in the guestbook
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there really is not a major plan for
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today
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leaving the travelers chapel
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established 1972
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and heading northbound ish across the
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north carolina line and into north
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carolina
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that'll be the episode with my mom
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been driving down the road a bit notice
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this convenience store in front of the
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convenience store next to the ice
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machine just so happens to be a king
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kong
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and an elvis
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sculpture
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and we were i was in the car and i asked
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you what you wanted to listen to on the
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radio mama what'd you say elvis presley
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mom said i want to listen to elvis
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presley so i put elvis on and the next
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thing we know here's elvis standing next
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to king kong
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that's like a sock that's like a
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coincidence or a sign
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and look over here bob there's a relic
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of the past right there well oh yeah it
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sure is phone booth it's a phone booth
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you don't see many of those loft anymore
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that's just a shell
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continuing on down the road stopping off
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at galley vance ferry where they would
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have a stump meeting
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twice a year now every spring every two
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years
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since 1880
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galley vance ferry it's funny my mom's
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waiting in the car
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but she's the one that taught me the
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word gallivant and she would always say
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that
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go out gallivant around
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a lot of the dialogue
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you always learn from your parents
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this old s.o gas station here in
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gallivant
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and they have kept the
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prices from back in the day
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where premium was only 34 cents a gallon
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the pumps over here
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with the esso logo on it
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kind of tough to even really make out
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what it says there
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but this historical marker
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george judson holiday pd farms the pd
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river is a bridge right next to this
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that is pretty dang cool
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and just to give a little more info on
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where we're heading we are heading away
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from family spent about last week or so
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in myrtle beach and we're going to go
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visit more family my mom is the oldest
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of eight brothers and sisters
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so
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on her side
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a lot of family members and we're going
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through some personal stuff so she flew
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up to myrtle beach for the last week and
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now we're going to head into north
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carolina we're going to pop over into
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virginia as well but
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where we're going to be staying i got us
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a hotel
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on the north carolina virginia line so
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i'll be there
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for a short tenure
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just to keep keep everyone in the loop
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we have some other family up there and
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then she's gonna fly back to florida
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on the 30th
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and then i'll stay
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in greensboro one additional day and
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then i'll continue to trek around north
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galley vance ferry
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i like it
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oh look at this
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look at this
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no checks or credit cards
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please stop your motor you have a
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cigarette
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oh wow
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use tire bargains
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i love this this is so cool
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this is on the national register of
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historic places as well look at that
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right across from the gallivants ferry
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convenience store
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and general merchandise an active
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fuel station continued on a bit and
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according to what i was reading
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this is slated as the world's oldest
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cotton press
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right here in the yard of this
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plantation now
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built in
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1798 according to tradition
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it's thought by many to be the oldest in
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existence
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first owned and used by john
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bethya iii
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powered by oxen and mules
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are you familiar with how it works
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from tobacco country not cotton
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you were telling me you worked in the
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tobacco fields when you were young right
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in virginia
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but this i've never seen one of these
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so this looks like a big corkscrew right
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up here
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it is very tall probably about 30 feet
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tall
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there's nothing
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water in there
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a little shelf right there this was not
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where it originally was it was moved
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here to preserve it back in 1948.
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i'm reading the sign from all the way
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over here so that's how
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i know about it okay this thing's about
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i don't know if it's 30 feet tall but at
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least 25 feet
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or more
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according to tradition
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the world's
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in existence there's all these pine
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cones over here too these are pine trees
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you know i know that's pretty familiar
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to anyone
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living in the south so i'm familiar with
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pine trees but
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maybe some watching don't realize what
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falls from these branches
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pine cones
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these are pine cones right here
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take a look
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some use them as you know art decor you
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can decorate
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them there's a lot of pine cones here
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in this yard
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pine cones from pine trees also pine
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straw which is
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kind of a pain
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to rake up i know because i used to have
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to do it a lot as a chore keeping on
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down the road
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noticing these classic car
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oh classic cars
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alert
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right here behind this fence line
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appears as if
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they are for sale
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this relic
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seven thousand five hundred dollars
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have not crossed over
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the state line of south carolina
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as of yet
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just crossed over i-95 but kind of not
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really taking back roads but taking some
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of the small towns
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this isn't really a small town episode
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just trying to
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get where we got to go in a timely
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fashion but
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let's stop and show these
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believe the community's name is oak hill
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south carolina oak something south
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right off of i-95 just crossed over i-95
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over the overpass over in bennettsville
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south carolina now
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this gulf sign right here
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and this information placard says
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the gulf this area has been the center
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of african american business district
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and a popular gathering place since the
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late 19th century it has been called
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the gulf
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and over there is a custom
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air-conditioned and heating business
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with some old photos and images of
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buildings that once stood the old post
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office
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right here in this area as well this is
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marlboro county the county seat and
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that's the courthouse right there i
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wonder if the marlboro man's around
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probably no affiliation but that's what
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i think of when i think of marlboro and
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take a look up on the side of this
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building james o'brien's buggies wagons
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and harnesses a place that used to sell
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buggies and wagons it looks like the r
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has been removed from the side of this
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mar
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burrow
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struck marlborough and now into churro
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this is the hardware store
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see the little silhouette there the old
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signage the duvall building
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a small little town right before the
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state line
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and a pretty cute downtown
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right over here didn't realize until
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just saw a sign
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this is the birthplace
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of dizzy gillespie
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and there is
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statue here honoring dizzy gillespie
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right there
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john burks
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gillespie
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dizzy
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all right about to cross the into the
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north carol i gotta put it out take it
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out of the park
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put it into drive
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gonna go across the state line south
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now into
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and notice just a few feet from the
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state line on this road as we head
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northbound
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into north carolina
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facing back towards south carolina it
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says forbid
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1712 from part of carolina which was
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chartered in
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1663
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and on the opposite side
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is information
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about
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we just headed into north carolina
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colonized 1585 to 87
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by the first english settlers
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in america permanently cited in 1650.
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neat so it's two-sided
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crossed over into
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north carolina out of south carolina
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got a little welcome party here mom in
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they're saying hi
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right here at the state line it's a
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state line welcome
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party
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that one's running i'll get camera shy
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is that chihuahua yeah that's what it is
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chihuahuas or yappers now pulling
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through rockingham
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noticing this old motel sign says truck
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parking but also has the
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the amenities like a king-sized bed and
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back when places like this would promote
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hbo
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i don't know if hbo is a selling point
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anymore but
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it used to be
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cable and hbo
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found this place off the side of the
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road near ellerby
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i believe it's pronounced called the
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berry patch
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very large strawberry also some photo
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ops
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over here of a peach and a strawberry
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but this round about building
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is painted to look like a strawberry and
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not only is there a strawberry down here
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but there's a strawberry oh mom's in the
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strawberry
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you're a strawberry mama yep i am i've
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took it myself
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now you're inside a peach oh so it has a
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place for your arms to go through there
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yeah you put you i think you put your
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head too far through the strawberry and
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the wood was pressed up against your
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neck that's what happened you got to be
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careful
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you learned that
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wish you liked being inside better the
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peach or the strawberry peach because i
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like peaches you like peaches better
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than strawberries yes
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a nice little quaint cute shop here with
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an assortment of products you know
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vegetables and fruits and whatnot all
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through here they also have bottled
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drinks they have
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bottled
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coca-cola you know it's tough
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some stores do not have bottle coca-cola
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uses plastic but they have bottled
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here as well
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and i say you know a lot of fresh fruits
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and veggies
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and things through here as well
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nice little roadside stop off the side
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there's also a watermelon painted
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watermelon water tank over here off to
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the side of the parking lot look at this
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it's a big it's a big watermelon
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you get a
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good-sized watermelon there i've arrived
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now in seagrove
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the pottery capital of the world
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the sign designated on the way in
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got the oak a lot of pottery mom's
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crossing over
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to one of the pottery stores see what's
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in the window
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she put her jacket on it's kind of
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getting a little chillier as the day
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progresses there's a pottery center here
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there's a pottery store up here on this
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corner
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there's a pottery that's a railroad
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agency there
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are any of these open
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so you used to do ceramics what's
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everyone saying ceramics and pottery
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look at these little
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vases these little
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jars that have the faces on
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do you still have any of your old
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ceramic stuff that you made
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they pour oil out of there perhaps like
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cooking oil it could be
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could be
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now this does look different than the
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ceramics you used to make
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i guess
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what's the difference between ceramics
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and pottery
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well there's most probably 10 different
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categories
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based on the formulation of the clay
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used it's all pottery it's all ceramics
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but
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ceramics generally is these lower
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temperature slip cast
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little whimsy things that you would get
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from a paint by number
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that's referred to as ceramic but
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pottery is ceramics as well
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pottery usually refers to hand
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turned or hand built from because you
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always see people making pottery
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like what we have here which is in the
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shop yeah and we have about 80 different
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potters including what my wife and i
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make which and the pieces back there we
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have another phone that makes these out
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yeah
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there you go
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and now continuing on this old service
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station as one of my favorite things i'm
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always looking for
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coca-cola
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advertisement painted on the side of the
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cinder block there
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doesn't look like it dates back too far
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it almost looks like it's been touched
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up
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over the years but the gas pumps are out
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front
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even though it's not open there's a
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little
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relic of the past there coca-cola
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side of this wall and now over into
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randleman
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see another mural there
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coca-cola on the mural this is probably
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about 20 minutes from the last spot i
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was at
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that gas station on the side of the
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street this is my shadow
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over this
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little manhole here
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waving at my shadow and my shadow
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is pointing
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right there to the richard petty placard
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richard petty is shown right here
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this is not a full-size sculpture
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definitely not full size probably only
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maybe four feet tall
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and all his glory underneath this tree
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limb
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got the helmet
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as well overlooking
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the road and the water tower right up
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there randleman water tower
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the artist's name is right back here
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a.m vaughn
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stack if i am reading that correctly
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1999
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this was erected
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and it states here richard petty on
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behalf of the randleman chamber of
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commerce from the city of randleman and
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the people of the community we dedicate
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the scaled-down replica
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of richard petty and honor over 35 years
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of dedication to nascar racing in our
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community richard is not only
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from our hometown hero he is our
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hometown hero but he's a friend
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and neighbor
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that's dated 1992.
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there it is richard petty
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and there's my shadow again so i'm gonna
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hello
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got the shades on
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it's like one of his hallmarks that in
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the cowboy hat made it to this evening's
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destination
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that will be in this area for
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a while until february 1st
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checking out of this hotel however right
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here in the parking lot in south
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carolina there was a lot of ice and
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sleet but no accumulation of snow
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that is not the case here
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in north carolina
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inside greensboro
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look at this big pile
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of spicy
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snow that has not dissolved a big pile
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here
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still doing family stuff
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i have a couple aunts and uncles that
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live about an hour from here so i'm
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using this as a central point
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as stated at the beginning of the video
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today was just a travel day
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i would like to get back on the
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the extreme back roads look at all the
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snow
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and small towns but that probably won't
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happen
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for a bit until my mom
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all my mom's with me
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just enjoying some family stuff
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and seeing some
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some relatives that we haven't seen in a
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while
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some personal stuff that obviously
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shouldn't always be mentioned not
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everything has to be mentioned in the
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video thanks for watching i'll see you
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in the next video the vlog
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