Running the Blockade-- Some New News About an Old War.
1. OOPS!-- The March 8th Billing, Montana Gazette reports that high school teacher and superintendent Dwain Haggard definitely made an oops. Haggard, a former reenactor, was showing students his black powder muzzle loader when it fired and a bullet lodged in the classroom map, making a nice hole in the "o" of North America.
He immediately reported the incident to the school board and talked to the parents of students in the room.
2. TOURISM-- The March 7th Wilmington (NC)Star News reports that New Hanover County (in which Wilmington is located) ranked #8 in the state for tourism and tourists spent $422 million there in 2008. Next door counties Brunswick was #9 and Pender was #46.
All reported a down turn in spending in 2009.
3. BLOG-- I came across a blog of particular interest to me the other day. It is called the Civil War Navy Sesquicentennial Blog. Lately, it has had a lot of entries on the anniversary of the battle between the Monitor and Merrimac.
Another entry of interest was January 24th's about why the Navy in the war is so disregarded.
Well worth a look at http://civilwarnavy150.blogspot.com
Can't Get Enough Navy Blogs for the War. --B-R'er
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