I was at at the beach yesterday. I had the opportunity to speak about “Live Like You Were Dying” to the Carteret County government employees. It was a double-header. I spoke to the employess in Beaufort in the morning and to the ones in Morehead City in the afternoon.
What was a shame was being at the beach and having such cold weather!!! I typically take a walk along the beach in this part of the world but it was just too cold and windy. But on the way home I did stop at a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in the town of Maysville. You don’t see many Piggly Wiggle stores these days unless you get in the rural areas of the state.
Have you heard of the Women’s Land Army? Since 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the USA entering WWI, it might be good to learn more about the Women’s Land Army. I will be making a presentation at Chautauqua this summer about the Women’s Land Army. The Women proved they could do farm work and deserved to be on equal footing with men – including the right to vote. This forthcoming article in the Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine previews what that presentation will be about – 
It was a real fun night with a group from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh last Saturday night. I spoke on “From Paddles to Pots to Privies: The History of the Outhouse.” The host for the night, Linda Bestimt, did a bang up job of decorating. The toilet paper (including corn cobs) were hillarious and the bathrooms had door overlays complete with crescent moons. The audience used electronic responders to answer such questions as to why outhouses have crescent moons on the door, the reason for the two holer outhouses and other thought provoking questions.
is was a unique religious group in our American history. They lived a very simple lifestyle. But they no longer exist since celibacy was one of their tenets. It is hard to sustain a community that way.