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of ibc morning I had been riding down
ihc Carolina shore from More head
.ind Beaufort, clout to 100 miles; ami
I had just poised beneath a sign sav¬
ing "Welcome to the City of A /a leas"
(which i* Wilmington), when suddenly
I made a most astonishing discovery.
I had come into a work! of green'
Out ahead lay a long, green canopy
of trees, and in the gardens of the
of Market St. which itUS 17.
Ihc bushes were green, and the
It must have been a great massing of
green to have so suddenly impressed
me; hours later I could still recall that
sensation of surprise at the realization
of how green it all was. Yet there had
been evergreens along my way for
days and days. F.vcn low. bushy live
oaks were at Virginia Beach away up
Norfolk
azaleas and camellias and other things
that I had no names lor.
The sun was wains, as I found when
I shortly set out to walk in it. And I
that mosquitoes were
it was
"It was down to 30 this morning.'
the tauman said on the way to the
hotel Ice was on the wmdsbehb -
The red been a bite in the air
when I left Morthcad in the early
morning (til 7:40, to be exact) —
picking up the bus as it came in over
the bridge from Beaufort, and then go¬
ing along in il behind the shore of
Boguc Sound
"There had been glimpses of the
sound from over Gales Greek Inlet as
we passed there, and from Broad
Creek, loo But mostly it bad been
through a country of puwy smalboods
that we traveled, where there were
scattered homes, and hogs rooting in
the clearings of them. Boguc was just
The City o£ Green
,. little village. 1 remember, and there
was frost in its ft
tobacco fields in the clearings — and
in one clearing, after many miles, great
ficldpicccx of artillery set out. and
Marines hovering around them.
We had come to Camp Lcjcunc, the
last Coast training base of the Marine
Corps
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tremendous place. "You go la
sou get to the traffic circle In the prin-
n in Jacksons iUr told
being the mile, up
and the broad Whne Oak
River on the inner side as ** crossed
it. bridges into Swans boro town. Sport¬
fishing boats were at the river shore.
Thered been a drive-in theatre near
Bogue. and now in Swansboro was
another.
I recalled them when, seeing one
lure in Wilmington, the taximan said,
“North Carolina ranks next to Call-
loenia in the number of its dn.e-m
New River, where Lcjcunc is now. By
spring a tent camp was up. Now in
l.cjcunc 4 174 square miles of land
(and water) arc 500 miles of roads.
IX of railroad, thousands of build¬
ings. and every imaginable facility for
living, including hovpitals. churches,
and II theatres and gym*.
We passed Tarawa Terrace, one of
for
hg school system
Mar me Corps
And Jacksonville, "the fastest grow¬
ing town in the Carolina*." has become
two towns. One is a busy modern town
around a business section of super¬
markets and good shop, and an Iwo
Jinta movie house.
Through it we passed into
county seal, which is
eyes in
The bt
pan of town — and it
Way" lighting for both
shopping areas. Even in the last five
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