Finally! in Just me!
- April 11, 2017, 3:01 a.m.
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Our 41st anniversary was March 20, but I was pretty sick for a couple of weeks, so we weren’t able to do anything. We have been waiting for spring break, and now it’s here! Bill doesn’t have enough time to go the whole week, but this weekend we are going to Kill Devil Hills, NC, and I’m so happy. That place has many happy memories for me, both with my family growing up, and with Bill and the kids through the years.
I have a yucky cold, but that is NOT stopping me! We are GOING!
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Deleted user ⋅ April 11, 2017
Yay for you and your husband's planned anniversary trip. You will have such a good time and I do hope that pesky old cold of yours will be gone by then. Tell me about Kill Devil Hills if you would. I know nothing about it and that definitely is a very interesting name.
hotjavy Deleted user ⋅ April 13, 2017
Kill Devil Hills is on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We used to go there all the time when I was growing up, and then we took our kids there. We don't go as often now that we actually live in NC, because there is not a good road to quickly get across the state. It's faster to go south and get to Myrtle Beach. Wanted a trip down memory lane this time, though!
A little about the name:
Perhaps the most plausible explanation - and the one the town officially endorses - stems from rum-carrying ships that sometimes ran aground off the treacherous barrier islands during Colonial days.In 1728, William Byrd of Virginia, hardly a fan of Carolinians, wrote that "Most of the Rum they get in this Country comes from New England, and is so bad and unwholesome, that it is not improperly called 'Kill-Devil,' and there is a story that the ship loaded with this 'Kill-Devil Rum' was wrecked opposite the sand hills, thus accounting for the name," according to Stick's book.
The town's Visitor's Guide skips the smarmy comments from Byrd and just says the shipwrecked rum, later scavenged by locals and stashed in the dunes, "was strong enough to 'kill the devil.' " And the name stuck.
Deleted user hotjavy ⋅ April 13, 2017
Thanks for the explanation on that very interesting name. :)
hotjavy Deleted user ⋅ April 14, 2017
You're welcome!
crystal butterfly ⋅ April 14, 2017
I hope the weather is good and all your plans work and you have a marvelous time!
hotjavy crystal butterfly ⋅ April 14, 2017
Thank you!