We made it the Queen City late Sunday night, the day before Labor Day,
driving about 180 miles from Wilmington in three hours. Actually we are
outside Charlotte about 30 miles, since all hotels anywhere near the
city center were booked or way too costly. We plan to drive to
Charlotte, park somewhere and then take public transportation. The city
of 750,000 people has streetcars and buses, so we read, and it will be
fun to see where we land. On the agenda tomorrow is the Carolina Fest,
parades and concerts, including one with Jeff Bridges, the actor turned
singer, and James "Fire & Rain" Taylor. In the afternoon we have
tickets for a forum on "politics and the media" featuring top national
journalists. More as the story develops.
P.S. They call Charlotte the
Queen City because it's named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,
the wife of British King George III -- yes, the one that triggered the first US tea party in Boston and the
American Revolutionary War. Charlotte also is the hometown of Billy Graham, America's first tele-evangelist, and the NASCAR Hall of Fame..
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