PBS North Carolina
How to Grease the Wheels on Your Covered Wagon
Remember those scenes on TV where the pioneers are rolling across the prairie with their covered wagons? Or sitting around the fire drinking coffee and whiskey and strumming a guitar? I don’t ever recall seeing a pioneer doing wagon maintenance like greasing a wagon wheel and saying, “Damn, I just turned that wagon wheel nut the wrong way. Of COURSE, the left wheels are lefty loosey..!” Here’s your and my chance to fill that glaring gap in our TV knowledge… Continue reading
Watch the Emmy-Winning “Mule Rider” on PBS North Carolina
Are you curios what it’s like to spend a week traveling in a mule wagon? Last winter, mule Polly and I hit the road with a film crew from PBS North Carolina. We spent the better part of a week traveling the back roads of eastern North Carolina – from Oriental to Aurora. Through the dormant potato fields, past the moored shrimp boats and giant rusting anchors. We visited with net maker Virgil Potter and guitar picker John Carawan.
