{"id":2141,"date":"2007-06-06T08:52:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T13:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2007-06-06T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T14:50:46","slug":"discovering-cleveland-county-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/discovering-cleveland-county-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Cleveland County, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a good meeting with historians, folklorists, and a lot of good people for <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=shelby,+nc&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=35.293831,-81.537781&#038;spn=0.238747,0.63858&#038;z=11&#038;om=1\">Shelby, NC<\/a> who are planning the &#8220;Earl Scruggs Center: Music and Stories of the Carolina Foothills&#8221; to be established in the beautiful old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/shelby\/cle.htm\">Cleveland County Courthouse<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>One of the special pleasures was meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlscruggs.com\/\">Earl Scruggs<\/a> and his son Gary, but then there were some interesting discoveries about Cleveland County, which were pleasurable in themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Associated with the Scruggs Center will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_Gibson\">Don Gibson<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/shelby\/rog.htm\">Theater<\/a>. Gibson, who wrote a good number of hits including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguitarguy.com\/icantsto.htm\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t stop loving you,&#8221;<\/a> is buried there in Shelby with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofshelby.com\/govt\/dept_parks_rec\/events_cemeteries.php\">a Masonic marker on his memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also from Shelby are Heavyweight <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Floyd_Patterson\">Floyd Patterson<\/a>, &#8220;The Clansman&#8221; author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Dixon%2C_Jr.\">Thomas Dixon<\/a>, B Movie Maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlowensby.com\/\">Earl Owensby<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Thompson_%28basketball%29\">NBA star David Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In foodways, Shelby is truly mysterious. Until recently Shelby hosted an annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Livermush\">Liver Mush<\/a> Festival as well as a whole food, meatfree, Biblically correct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hacres.com\/diet\/diet.asp\">Hallelujah Diet<\/a> retreat center, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hacres.com\/home\/home.asp\">Hallelujah Acres<\/a>. Neither of these should be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelbyhamfest.com\/\">Shelby Hamfest<\/a>, which is not about eats, but about Amateur Radio.<\/p>\n<p>The downtown of Shelby was the first National Register of Historic Places <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cr.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/shelby\/index.htm\">Main Street Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now I need to get down there and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cleveland_County%2C\">Cleveland County<\/a> myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a good meeting with historians, folklorists, and a lot of good people for Shelby, NC who are planning the &#8220;Earl Scruggs Center: Music and Stories of the Carolina Foothills&#8221; to be established in the beautiful old Cleveland County Courthouse there. One of the special pleasures was meeting Earl Scruggs and his son Gary, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}