Other items of interest

About 125 people headed to historic Edenton’s Barker House recently to learn about the N.C. History Project’s new northeastern office. The Chowan Herald promoted the event. Those who attended heard NCHP Director Troy Kickler discuss the History Project, along with Edenton and North Carolina’s national significance. “I offered stories of how some North Carolina founders influenced others, like Thomas Jefferson, and had their fingerprints, so to speak, on the Founding Era,” Kickler writes. The Mooresville Tribune published this week Kickler’s column on Founder James Iredell and the “nobility of fighting for freedom.” Meanwhile, the Durham Herald-Sun quoted Carolina Journal Radio Co-Host and Right Angles blogger Donna Martinez in an article about plans to use state taxpayer dollars for land preservation near Falls Lake. The Bull City Rising blog noted Martinez’s comments for the Herald-Sun piece. Speaking of Durham, the matricula consular issue prompted the Randy’s Right blog to borrow from Carolina Journal publisher Jon Ham a doctored photo depicting the Durham City Council in sombreros. That photo led WTVD to interview Ham Thursday afternoon.