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SEPTEMBER 2018 | Your Community. Your Neighbors. Your Story.
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SEPTEMBER 2018 | 3
ON THE COVER
Marian Keen
and Amy Wilson
pose inside
Cleveland
Family Health.
YOUR J-NOW
TEAMVolume 2, Number 10
Publisher
Randy Capps
randy@johnstonnow.com
General Manager
Shanna Capps
shanna@johnstonnow.com
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Creative Consultant
Ethan Capps
Advertising Consultants
Jess Barbour, Gordon Becton
and Tasha Ellington
Creative Director
Frank Spurlock PAGE 5
Advertising Designers HEADING BACK TO MY ROOTS
Jess Barbour and Ali Kabrich
Editorial Consultants PAGE 6
Mike Bollinger and Rebecca J. Blair RYDER’S RACE SET FOR NOV. 10
Office Manager
Katie Crowder PAGES 10-11
Delivery Specialist NEWS FROM YOUR NEIGHBORS
Jennifer Littlejohn
102 N. Main St., Four Oaks, N.C. 27524
PAGES 12-13
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
‘WHITE LIQUOR
AND WHITE LIES’ 24
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
Heading back to my roots
I had a gut punch of a reality check earlier this summer when I realized that I wrote
my first newspaper story in September 1993.
Let me save you some math and say that it was 25 years ago.
Now, it softens the blow a little to say that I was a senior at Marion High School
when the journey began. But my first byline came in the Marion Star and Mullins
Enterprise, covering the Swamp Foxes’ first home football game.
To tell the truth, I started loving high school football long before that. I grew up
going to games at Fox Field, watching my hometown team run the wishbone.
I used to sit in class and draw up the plays I saw on Friday nights. When I got to Randy Capps
high school, I asked my Psychology teacher, who was also the offensive coordinator, randy@johnstonnow.com
why he didn’t throw more passes to the tight end.
“When you throw the ball, three things can happen — and two of them are bad,” he said.
That was my introduction to coach speak, a language in which I am now fluent.
I learned it from covering games all over North and South Carolina for a quarter-century. I’ve dialed it back in
recent years, and a few months ago, I had decided to take the year off from the prep football scene.
Then, the phone rang.
My friend Rick Heilmann, owner of Country Superstars 102.3, was looking for a color guy for the Johnston
County High School Football Game of the Week.
Believe it or not, during my Bo Jackson-like media career, I’ve done radio, too.
This fall, I’ll be doing it again alongside Chris Edwards, the voice of Duke baseball and many other things.
So, if you can’t make it out to a game on Friday nights, give us a listen. I promise not to bring up the wishbone
too often.
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Ryder’s Race set for Nov. 10
By Randy Capps
Ryder Wells suffered severe injuries after being Keen also credits Chris Ellington, chief of the also an opportunity to raise awareness about animal
attacked by dogs in Raleigh on Thanksgiving 2015, Cleveland Fire Department, for helping with the route safety and what to do in those instances.’
but the Cleveland community is rallying together to and for supporting the event. “But the biggest reason is to lift Ryder up. Let Ryder
help him and his family. “And I knew none of these people a year ago,” she feel like he is just the absolute most important
The latest effort is “Ryder’s Race,” a 5K in the said. “Everybody in the community has made the person in this community, because when somebody
Cleveland area set for November 10 with all proceeds 5K planning so easy. We’re very excited about the goes through that type of trauma … to know that
benefiting the Ryder Wells Benefit Fund. event. … We’re going to have a lot of fun that day. I everyone is supporting you and rooting for you? How
Charlie Carden, who owns Charlie’s BBQ & Grille on told (Ryder’s) mom the other day, ‘the race isn’t just good is that going to be for that little boy?”
Cleveland Road, and Mike Allen, owner of Carfix on about raising money. We want to raise money, but its
Mast Drive in Garner, have been spearheading the
effort to raise money for Ryder over the past few
months, and Marian Keen, co-owner of Cleveland
Family Health, decided to get involved as well.
RYDER’S
“I said to Mike, ‘I don’t know Ryder, but hey, I’ve done
a 5K once, I can do it again. What do you think about
doing a 5K?’” Keen said.
After consulting with Carden and the family, an idea
was born, with Keen organizing the event and Allen
helping to secure sponsors.
“We need runners,” she said. “What is a 5K if you
don’t have any runners? … We’ve made some great
progress. We’ve got some radio stations and some
Race
other people out there promoting it. Everybody’s
sharing it. November 10th, 2018
“We won’t know until the day of the race how many
runners we’re going to have. We’re going to hope for
500, and expect no less than a hundred.” 5k Run/walk
Join us for a fun run!
All proceeds go to Ryder Wells Benefit Fund.
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for the fund are also welcome at Charlie’s BBQ & Grille, Carfix and Cleveland Family Health.
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5 ways moms and
dads can whittle
away stress
Submitted by Dr. Matt Thompson, Align Family Chiropractic
There I was lying across the couch, completely exhausted, with a to-do list a those not-so-healthy options. Can you go from three sodas per day to one, then
mile long. But at least the kids were in bed for the night. to zero? What about eliminating pop tarts or sugary cereal from your breakfast?
Now if I could only muster up the energy to knock off a few things on my check Whatever processed or unhealthy food that is a vice for you is a great target at
list, get to bed at a decent time and hopefully get at least some sleep so I could this point. Mom and Dad can certainly jump full force into changing nutrition,
have a little energy for tomorrow. but that can be overwhelming, and ultimately short-lived. Beginning slow and
If this sounds like you or your spouse, take a deep breath — there’s hope! steady, developing a rhythm within your family routine, and scaling up as you go
will be the most successful way to approach nutrition with most families.
As Americans, we have more stress in our lives than at any other point in
history. When we encounter stress, a certain part of our nervous system is The third strategy for whittling away stress is to get off the electronic devices
triggered, called the fight/flight response. and spend quality time with your family or friends. It is well-documented that
screen time can impair both the structure and function of your brain, essentially
It is a state of survival meant for acute moments, such as a bear chasing you or
taking the brain and body into a more primitive, stress-response state.
your child running for the street. The problem occurs when stress builds up, and
we get stuck in this stress-response state. Screen time is inevitable, but moving in a direction of less screen time can
benefit everyone. Instead, go for a walk with your family, play a board game,
Over time, we become sick, our bodies begin to break down and eventually
have family coloring book time or eat dinner together at the table. One of our
we develop aches and pains. Stress is a broad term, but can be separated into
favorite ways to connect is with an impromptu dance party. Crank some tunes
three categories: emotional, physical and chemical. It’s not just the stress you
and watch the smiles grow and the stress melt.
currently have, but every stress you’ve ever been through.
Taking time for self care, our fourth tip, is often one of the last things on a
I’m going to share with you five easy ways every parent can whittle away
parent’s mind. We’re always focused on our kiddos, or others. However, coffee
stress. This isn’t an exhaustive list, but if you adopt even one of these
alone on the patio, a book in the bath tub, a night out with a spouse or friends, a
strategies, your body will begin to move out of a state of surviving and into a
trip to the salon or any hobby that you really enjoy can help shift your brain into
state of thriving. Just imagine if you adopt all five.
a state of relaxation and balance. Just be consistent!
The first strategy is to set aside three minutes every evening to pick the top
Our last strategy is to care for the one body system that literally controls all
priorities for the next day. Write them down on a post-it note, in your planner or
cells, tissues, organs, systems and functions in your body — your nervous
phone or even on your bathroom mirror with a dry-erase marker.
system. Your brain communicates with your body through your nervous system.
Staying focused on the top item on your list will allow you to accomplish what is This is how your brain is able to control your heart, lungs, muscles, immune
truly important and not get lost or overwhelmed. When that item is checked off, system, digestion, self-healing, reaction time, performance, recovery, etc.
move on to the next one.
When stress is too great at one time, or usually over the course of time, it
Additionally, take 15-30 minutes each weekend to look ahead to the next week. wreaks havoc on our nervous system. Instead of communicating like high speed
Take this time to determine priorities for the week, look at schedules, meal plan, internet, our nervous system begins communicating at dial up speed.
etc. Be consistent and watch the stress begin to lift.
When your brain and body aren’t communicating properly, your body begins to
Next, addressing what we put into our bodies on a daily basis will drastically break down and you become fatigued, sick, can’t handle stress properly and
reduce our stress and increase our energy and our mood. Nutrition can be eventually develop aches and pains.
overwhelming, so keep it simple with the long game in mind.
It is important to find a professional who not only works to help you feel better,
The easiest step is to add something healthy first. Commit to drinking a certain but someone who works to balance your nervous system so that your body
amount of water per day (fruit-infused water is easy and fun), adding one piece functions at a high level and you can handle the stresses that life constantly
of fruit per day, adding three salads per week, switching to organic and non- throws at you.
GMO items or trying one new healthy recipe per week are all great places to
In our practice, we have special digital technology that can measure and
start.
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This also works with your children as well. Little ones model what parents do, are offering a special of 80% off to Johnston Now readers for our thorough
so you’re leading by example and really leaving a great legacy. assessment, including the digital neurological scan to assess the health of your
Once you get into a rhythm, begin scaling up by adding more healthy items nervous system and its ability to handle stress. Any money that we collect from
to your meals and snacks. The next step with nutrition is to begin eliminating this will be donated to Partnership for Children of Johnston County.
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NEWS FROM YO
South Johnston High student
wins prestigious baseball award
Submitted by Johnston County Public Schools
South Johnston High student Grant Millay was awarded the Sam Narron
Baseball Award recently. The award celebrates a Johnston County high
school senior baseball player who demonstrated a love for the game through
determination, dedication and sacrifice.
Millay is the 22nd recipient of the award. He received a $500 scholarship and a
recognition plaque. Additionally, his name will be placed on a plaque with past
recipients which hangs in the Evander S. Simpson Building in Smithfield.
Millay posted a 1.75 ERA with 22 strikeouts in 28 innings pitched while batting
.427 with six home runs and 23 RBI. He was named Greater Neuse River
Conference Player of the Year.
The award is named in honor of Sam Narron, who was raised in the Emit
community near Corinth Holders. In 1934, Narron, using most of the money
he had, purchased a ticket to Hot Springs, Arkansas, to attend the first ever
baseball school.
The award’s namesake played and coached professional baseball for the
Sam Narron (left), grandson of the award’s namesake and pitching coach for
Saint Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. He was part of two World Series
Championship teams in a career that spanned from 1936 to 1964. the Potomac Nationals, and his father, Rooster Narron, present the recognition
plaque to South Johnston’s Grant Millay.
Narron is a member of the Johnston County Athletic Hall of Fame.
For North Johnston Middle principal, it’s all about service
Submitted by Johnston County Public Schools
MICRO — Kenneth Sumler is a self-described nomad. He’s lived across opportunity when I was active
the world, from Japan to the Middle East, the United Kingdom to South duty. I was either deployed or on
Korea, Virginia to California and many states in between. But one thing a TDY (Temporary Duty). Being
has remained constant — his desire to serve — a passion he brings to his able to take my son to school
new role as principal at North Johnston Middle. meant and still means a lot to me
Like his father before him, Sumler joined the U.S. Air Force after high and to him.”
school. After serving nine years enlisted, he crossed over and became Sumler wasn’t in Wayne County
a commissioned officer from which he served another eleven years and for long before the opportunity to
retired after 20 years of service. serve again in Johnston County
During that time he completed four degrees, an associate in general became available, this time as a
education, an associate in aircraft armament, a bachelor’s in principal.
interdisciplinary social science and a master’s in aeronautical science. “I really appreciate it because
Sumler studied aircraft maintenance and aeronautical science to fine everyone has welcomed me with open arms. Now being principal here at
tune his skills, but he also studied general education because he already North Johnston Middle, to serve the students, to serve the staff, to serve
knew that once he retired from the Air Force he wanted a second career in the community, it’s a great honor,” Sumler said.
education. Having only been on the job since the beginning of the month, Sumler
“I had always dreamed of being an educator,” he said. “My goal was to be said the thing he’s been most apprecative of so far is the hospitality he’s
in the Air Force, retire and start a second career in education.” been shown.
Sumler began his career at South Johnston High School as a lateral “I’m grateful for the staff who is here because they met me and my wife
entry Air Force JROTC teacher while taking classes through ECU and with open arms,” he said. “I’m very appreciative of the fact that when I
UNC Asheville. While at South Johnston, it was the school administration brought my son here just to see what it was like, he was amazed at the
and the Trojan staff that believed in him and inspired him to serve as an learning atmosphere. He was shocked at how large the band is, and he
administrator. enjoyed interacting with the students. I’m very appreciative and thankful.”
While serving in Johnston County, Sumler soon completed his Masters Sumler believes the greatest challenge any principal faces is living up to
of School Administration Add-On through UNC Wilmington and gained a and fulfilling the needs of students, staff and community members.
vast amount of knowledge serving as an assistant principal at Smithfield- “That’s why we’re here,” he said. “We’re here to make sure the kids learn.
Selma High School and then at Goldsboro High in Wayne County. But at the same time we have to fulfill the needs of the students, staff
“While serving as assistant principal at Goldsboro High School, I had the and the community. Because we want to make sure we are growing at a
great fortune of dropping my son off at his middle school every morning, consistent pace that is going to trickle into the overall environment of the
and then I would head to the high school,” he said. “I did not have that county.”
10 | JOHNSTON NOWOUR NEIGHBORS
New Selma principal a perfect fit for dual-immersion school
Submitted by Johnston County Public Schools
SELMA — It’s hard not to get into a long conversation with Maritza “I just felt maybe I could help
Rosado. The self-described chatter, who now leads Selma Elementary, bring a different perspective
loves getting to know others in candid and honest conversations. into what decisions were being
Sitting in her office in the historic Selma Elementary School building, it’s made or reach out to these
easy to hear when she talks how Rosado is making a little history herself. communities that felt distant
She is the first Latina principal to lead a school in the area. Rosado, to what was happening at the
who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, still carries the accent of her school. So that was one of the
childhood. motivations to do it.”
“I came to the United States when I was 16. So I was older, that’s why Rosado’s background fits Selma
the accent never went away,” she said. “And I don’t want it to go away Elementary perfectly. One of
because it’s a part of me.” the more diverse schools in the
When Rosado made the move to the mainland, she landed in the Bronx to district, Selma is also a full dual-
live with her mother and stepfather. immersion school in both English
and Spanish.
“It was a very nice part of the Bronx. It has changed a lot, but it was a
beautiful building in the center of a park,” she said. “My stepdad had two “Our dual-immersion program is about having students become bi-literate
jobs. He worked hard to give us a good living.” in both languages. Bi-literate, meaning students will be able to read,
speak and hold academic conversation in both languages,” Rosado said.
At 18, she was taking a few general education classes at a community
college when an opportunity to become a dental assistant presented Rosado has been working to strengthen communication within the school
itself. by telling her teachers she is right there with them to support them.
“There was no training required, so the dentist trained me. I could walk to “I’m visible, available and anything that I’m going ask you to do I, I will
work,” she said. do as well,” she said. “I want to continue to sustain and to build what is
already here. I believe we’re a family. We’re all in this together and here
After a while, Rosado went back to school. This time she left with both a just to make the community better.”
teaching degree and a master’s.
“When I was younger I wanted to be a social worker. But I wanted to be
a social worker because the social worker at my school was awesome,”
she said. “She came to the homes. She found resources. I wanted to be a
social worker because I said I want to help little girls like me when I grew Cash kicks in cash
up.” Submitted by Kiesha Johnson
Rosado said she couldn’t pinpoint when she made the switch from
wanting to be a social worker to a teacher, but only that she had an innate
need to serve and give back.
“I guess what got me into education, the short answer, is my own
experiences with the public school system. How caring the teachers were.
How many chances you got,” she said.
Rosado believes becoming a teacher later in life helped her be better
prepared to take on a classroom.
“It better prepared me because I have been a parent. I have dealt with my
own children. I have dealt with or interacted with my sons’ friends. So I
think that when I was older I was more assertive,” she said. “I was older
so I think I was able to manage things better. Still very scary.”
Eventually she applied for a job in North Carolina after visiting the state
and falling in love with the area.
“We’re all connected, so similar. I see the food in the south, ‘oh we have
something similar to that in Puerto Rico.’ I thought it was a great place to
raise your children. I just loved it,” she said.
She sent a resume to Wake County Schools and within 15 minutes had
two emails responding to her application. By the end of the night she had
accepted the job and began packing. Within 10 days from that first email,
Rosado was at work in North Carolina.
After several years, Rosado made the move to Johnston County where Cash Johnson, 5, holds his trophy for
she found more opportunities for advancement.
top salesman for selling the most cookie
“I’d been teaching for maybe 13 years, and I’m going to be really honest, dough for the Redfield Martial Arts
I felt as a Latina, I saw the high volume of population, and I felt maybe
fundraiser recently.
there’s a need for someone like me,” Rosado said of her reasoning to
become an administrator.
SEPTEMBER 2018 | 11Kimberly Tracy took this photo Londyn Coley enjoyed a trip to
near Simple Twist Taproom. Pullen Park.
Photo by Macy Coley
Guess where Haleigh Johnson
went on a church mission trip in
June?
Harper Jackson, 4, enjoying the Photo by Amy Elkins
Kay Pate and granddaughter,
Aubrey Pate, at Shackleford sun and sand at Holden Beach.
Photo by Brianne Jackson
Banks.
Cori Loseke poses in Abaco,
Bahamas.
Photo by Josh Loseke
Kathleen and Jim Mooring pose
with their granddaughter, Londyn
Coley, at a picnic in Angier.
Kay Pate with her granddaughter, Photo by Susan Kelly Harker Loseke plays at Atlantic
Kylie Pate, at Fort Macon. Beach.
Photo by Josh Loseke
Andrew and Foster Raines enjoy
their vacation.
Photo by Erika Hess
12 | JOHNSTON NOWAaron, Mara and Layla Benson at
Surf City.
Anna Price at Chimney Rock.
Photo by Patrick Price Anna, TJ and Molly Johnson.
Photo by Crystal Johnson
Georgia Kate Furr poses at Tryon
Palace Gardens.
Photo by Ben Furr
Ethan, 5, and Carly Hughes, 2,
cool off in the backyard in the
Cleveland area.
Photo by Nicole Hughes
Connor Fronczak, 6, tries out the
pirate ship ride at Six Flags over
Texas.
Photo by Danielle Martin
Noah and Lily Reaves, of Four
Oaks, enjoying their first beach
trip of the summer.
Photo by Amanda Reaves
Jackson Thomas Furr poses at Intracoastal waterway at Rich’s
Mount Mitchell. Inlet.
Photo by Ben Furr Photo by Martha Stovall
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SEPTEMBER 2018 | 13Cleveland Family Health offers ‘all-encompassing’ care to its patients
By Randy Capps | Photos by Ali Kabrich
GARNER — After meeting Marian Keen, it doesn’t take very long to discover that she’s a blur of constant motion.
She not only owns and operates Cleveland Family Health in Garner along with her husband, Dr. Stephen “Mike” Keen, but she’s also a physician’s assistant
(PA-C) who works in an emergency room and urgent care clinic on weekends, the mother of five children ranging in age from 1 to 14 and a “Johnston County
version of Joanna Gaines” who handled most of the décor in her office.
The new look of the practice, featuring a bright, cheerful look with a healthy dose of shiplap thrown in for good measure is the most obvious change in Cleveland
Family Health since she took it over in October 2015.
“Aesthetically, it looks a lot better,” she said. “We came in and shut the practice down for a week and did mostly a complete (renovation). We kind of had to
update it. But the biggest (change) is our services for the community now.
“Prior to me taking over … there was a lot of pain management going on, which is counter to my beliefs. We want to provide whole family health, from zero to
100 that involves a lot of preventative care, screening measures, making sure that patients have access to primary care and making sure patients don’t have to
wait three and four hours to be seen.”
Keen has strong opinions on the current opioid crisis. Having seen the effect of those drugs during her career in medicine, she avoids prescribing them if at all
possible.
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By Randy Capps | Photos by Ali Kabrich
SMITHFIELD — As long as there have been governments, there have been taxes. And since governments began trying to collect those taxes,
people have looked for ways to avoid them.
That’s the story of moonshine and bootlegging in a nutshell — man’s search for a good drink without the stress of reaching into his pocket.
The history of the profession is on display through the end of the year at the Johnston County Heritage Center in their “White Liquor and White
Lies” exhibit.
Inspired by Perry Sullivan’s donation of a few items from his father, Percy Flowers, Johnston County Heritage Center Director Todd Johnson
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“I just got into the story and realized it was a very important part of our culture that had never really been displayed or interpreted,” he said. “This
is just scratching the surface. We have a fairly small exhibit space.
“It does attempt to tell the story of bootleggers and moonshine culture in Johnston County. We went back to the early days, even before
Prohibition, to try to trace the story.”
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said. “They learned that they could distill grain for
medicinal and refreshment purposes. People started
making money on it, and Parliament decided that
there should be a tax on spirits. So there was a similar
resistance to taxation even before they came over here.”
Settlers brought their stills and recipes with them when
they came, and thus, an American tradition was born.
Spirits became such an important part of the colonial
culture that, in 1776, local leaders raised troops to
send to the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, near
Wilmington, by offering them payment in liquor.
Some of the ledgers are on display in the exhibit.
After the war, there were bills to be paid. Alexander
Hamilton had the idea of taxing liquor to retire the
Revolutionary War debt.
“It went over like a lead balloon,” he said. “In 1791, the
tax was seven cents per gallon. That was just exorbitant
back then. By the time of the Civil War, it was $2. We
have IRS records for Johnston County that show the
few people who actually paid it.”
After the War Between the States, when North Carolina
re-entered the Union, the moonshining culture really
took root.
“After the Civil War was when bootlegging really
became part of the culture here,” Johnson said. “When
we went back into the Union, people were expected to
pay this tax. And they did not. What blew my mind is
when I found out that 90 percent of Federal revenue
before the income tax came from taxes on liquor and
tobacco.”
Not everyone was fond of the industry. The temperance
movement sought to rid the country of alcohol. Of
course, with so much legal revenue at stake, it wasn’t
until a national income tax was established in 1913
when the idea really started to gain traction.
One of the steps towards the eventual passage
of Prohibition in 1920 was the establishment of
dispensaries in Johnston County.
Smithfield’s dispensary opened on July 1, 1899 —
ironically in the Heritage Center’s current location on
the corner of Third and Market. The idea behind the
dispensary, which was sort of like today’s ABC store,
was to provide residents a place to purchase, but not
consume, spirits.
It was an effort to clean up the town, which just a few
years earlier, had nine saloons within a block of the
courthouse downtown. There were also dispensaries in
Selma, Clayton, Pine Level, Micro and Kenly.
Prohibition is where many of the better known stories
began, but the exhibit traces the roots of bootlegging
back much farther.
“People think that bootleggers started with Prohibition
after World War I, but that’s not the case,” he said.
“People evaded the taxes from the very beginning. They
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SEPTEMBER 2018 | 27called them blockaders in the early days.”
The 20th century also gave rise to some of the county’s
most important characters.
Robert L. Flowers, who was no relation to his more
famous namesake, Percy, was sworn in as a federal
marshal shortly after the start of Prohibition.
His obituary in the June 17, 1926 edition of the “Benson
Review” read that he would often walk through Benson
with “a still on one shoulder and a rifle on the other.”
“My grandmother used to tell me a story about
when she was a little girl,” Johnson said. “She grew
up near Benson, and her grandmother always made
scuppernong wine during Prohibition. She would keep
it in the flour barrel. She would put a piece of wood in
there and a little bit of flour on the top.
“But some neighbor ratted her out, and Robert Flowers
came and busted up all of her wine. She said it was like
a river going through the back yard.”
The liquor that wasn’t spilled wound up impounded at
the courthouse, where residents could come with jars
and blocks of camphor to prove they planned to use
the “white lightning” for medicinal purposes and take
home a free jar full.
Of course, no exhibit on the history of Johnston
County bootlegging would be complete without a nod
to Joshua “Percy” Flowers, who “The Saturday Evening
Post” called “The King of the Moonshiners” in 1958.
There are other noteworthy entries in the exhibit, such
as a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe from the 1920s. The
Klan, in a bit of moralistic irony, was very interested in
the abolition of alcohol, going so far as to visit stills to
encourage moonshiners to change their sinful ways.
There’s also a section of a 1792 will in which John Norris
left his still and all of his whiskey to his son, Nathan.
Based on one of the exhibit’s displays — a model still
made by a student at South Johnston a few years ago —
there’s still a bit of bootlegging going on in the county.
“Let’s just say that the person who gave them the
information knew what they were doing,” Johnson said.
Attendance for the exhibit has been good, Johnson
said. He only wishes he had more room.
“It’s been good,” he said. “We have a steady flow of
people coming by to see it. We just need more space, so
we can have more stuff up. We’re working on that.
“It’s one of those almost taboo topics that’s a very
important part of our history. People like to do things
that are a little bit naughty. Moonshine was one of
those things that a lot of people did. It was accepted,
but it was not. There probably isn’t a family from
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During a recent presentation, CEO Chuck Elliott said Kennedy goes above
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“She’s made such an impression that several repeat customers come to
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Kennedy started out working nights at the hospital in Smithfield, and then
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“I love watching our hospital grow,” she says.
She grew up in West Virginia, and learned phlebotomy from reading At center, CEO Chuck Elliott congratulates Susan Kennedy on being named Johnston
text books and getting practice at the then-new 25-bed hospital in her Health Ambassador of the Month. At left is Crystal Felice, lab manager, and at right is
community. Back then, there were no phlebotomy schools. Tracey Carson, an administrative director of patient care services.
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exam — it was 700 questions long and took five hours. And in the 25
years since, she has worked at other hospitals, large and small, in West their physicians without having to drive to Chapel Hill.
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Crystal Felice, who is manager of the lab, says newer coworkers the SECU Hospice House in Smithfield.
appreciate Kennedy’s experience and ask for her assistance. She helps “She does whatever she can to assist others,” Felice says. “And if she
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visitors and patients find their way. employees who go above and beyond the call of duty. They deliver quality
Kennedy says the Clayton lab is a convenience particularly for local care, foster teamwork and offer excellent service.
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