The SCHM is hosting a one-woman show about the sinking of the TITANIC on August 18th at 3:00 p.m. Seating is limited.

Julie Hedgepeth Williams grew up hearing her great-uncle Albert Caldwell tell about his survival of the Titanic, along with his wife and baby. Julie retells his story today by performing as Albert's wife, Sylvia, in a one-woman show. You might recall Julie's name from many years ago. She lived in Clinton from 1981-1988, where she was a reporter and then an editor for The Sampson Independent.

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Captain David Dodd – A Local Patriot
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Captain David Dodd – A Local Patriot
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Mamie Ashford's Crazy Quilt
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Mamie Ashford's Crazy Quilt
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This quilt was made by Mary Faison "Mamie" Ashford of Clinton, sometime in the 1890s. Mamie was the daughter of Col. John Ashford, a veteran who had fought many battles during the war only to lose his life in a boiler explosion in 1889.

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Sampson Hall Plantation
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Claude O. Brown, Early Area Photographer
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Claude O. Brown, Early Area Photographer
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During the late 1800s, itinerant photographers traveled across North Carolina in wagons, bringing along tents, cameras, and equipment, and faced people who rarely, if ever, had their photographs made. If your family was from Sampson County and you own some of these turn-of-the-century pictures, chances are that they were taken by a man by the name of Claude Orville Brown, the renowned photographer from Mount Olive.

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