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Jan 31, 2022Liked by Jeremy Markovich

Once again hard hitting commentary about beached boats and NC-centric movies. I love it. Seriously, they should call you the most knowledgeable NC ephemeralist in the state. (Probably not a word but it should be.) Loved the attitude of the beached boat owner and excited to learn about redwood trees here in town. Great work as usual!

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If Chapel Hill qualifies as "in the Raleigh area," here's a redwood for you.... https://www.wunc.org/environment/2014-06-10/a-mystery-tree-grows-in-chapel-hill#stream/0

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How Cape Fear got to be "Cape Fear": John D. MacDonald’s “The Executioners” was set in a lakeside town in upstate New York, but Gregory Peck, who owned rights to the novel and would star in the movie, chose the name off a map of the Eastern seaboard because he liked the sound of it

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This 100% percent sounds like a thing that would happen in precisely that way.

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The Triad's where it's at.

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