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Article: TRIP TO AND FROM SMOKY MOUNTAINS A LOVELY ADVENTURE.(CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 26, 1997
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Byline: Tony Stein
Notes on our annual trek to the Great Smoky Mountains . . .
First leg of the trip was Route 58 to South Hill. Stretches of 58 use to be so dangerous that the label ``Suicide Strip'' was pinned on them. Much better now. Four lanes, straight run through some handsome farm country.
Many fields white with cotton crop. History buff that I am, I ponder the twist of fate that led a Yankee to turn cotton into the crop that personified the pre-Civil War South. He was Eli Whitney and what he did was invent the cotton gin, ``gin'' short for ``engine.''
Whitney was from Connecticut, but looking for a job as a tutor in Georgia. ...