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Ralph Walter wrote:
> > during which your faithful correspondent was invited to
> > attend a cross-burning.
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Had you been in Raleigh in the early 1960s my father-in-law could have invited you to a cross burning in his yard. At the time he was a district court judge and a strong supporter of civil rights. One evening he looked out his window only to see a cross burning in his front yard. Rather than becoming indignent and outraged, he called up a few friends and the local newspaper. The next morning the people of Raleigh awoke to a photograph in the newspaper of JudgeWinborne and friends roasting marshmellows in his front yard, having a good old time, and thumbing their collective nose at the crossburners.
Sign me,
Lightly toasted
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F. Mitchener Wilds, Senior Restoration Specialist
Restoration Branch
State Historic Preservation Office
919/733-6547
http://www.hpo.dcr.state.nc.us
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