The recent video PICK UP YOUR BED AND WALK revisits Fike High School’s three state football championships. Russell Rawlings’ book, CYCLONE COUNTY, also explores this scene (Wilson, NC –late 1960’s ).
I wrote PLAY IS WHERE LIFE IS about twenty years ago. The link below includes a chapter on Wilson and Eastern North Carolina, and Atlantic Christian College (now Barton College ), with many comments on this same period of time and some later.
On the link below I have listed several “tales”. I think this is the best chapter I have written, mainly because of all the area’s characters.
https://littlegreenbookoftennis.com/category/h-wilson
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- TEAM SPIRIT
- A SENSE OF HUMOR
- DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN
- DOC AND PEAHEAD
- HAND WRITING
- HOMER CLOCK
- THE SCAR OF RUSSIA
- GEOMETRY
- RUNS IN THE FAMILY
- THE GYM
- TOP HOT DOG
- THE OLD, OLD GYM
- FROM BOHUNK TO HAWN
- ODE TO THE GYM
- RASSLIN WITH BUDDY
- POSSUM
- ROCK RIDGE UPDATE
- CPR
- DINNER TABLE CONVERSATIONS
- TELEPHONES
- PIER WALKING
- COUNTRY STRIKES AGAIN
- WEDDING PLANS
- THE MAYOR
- DR. HAMLIN
- YOU CAN CALL ME AL
- OLYMPICS BOUND
- BLOCK/CHARGE CALL
- CHARIOTS OF FIRE
- 1984
- COMMON SENSE
- AIN’T IT FUNNY
- HEARING AIDS
- RESUMES
- Wilson-65 years ago
- FIKE HIGH SCHOOL
- Peanuts and tennis
Main blog and all books:
The Little Green Book of Tennis 