Two days ago, Mike had a case of the Martian Flu or something, so I needed to record in his place. today he sounds as good as ever. Since I could never bounce back from anything affecting my voice that quickly, I think it’s necessary to hurl invective his way. But I won’t ’cause I’m classy.

Where were we? Oh yeah. One of the interesting things about the American Revolution is that even though there were major, busy ports up and down the coast, only a few of them captured Britain’s attention. Boston MA and Portsmouth NH caught a lot of grief. New York wasn’t much of a shipping powerhouse yet. New Jersey, ditto. And most of the Jersey coast wasn’t conducive to shipping anyway. But Delaware and Maryland had some deep-water ports but were largely overlooked during the war. Virginia caught a little bit, Georgia was ignored, South Carolina…well, we’ve already talked about that quite a bit, haven’t we?

But North Carolina, which had bays and sounds protected by barrier islands, had a great deal of attractive waterways, but it seemed like nobody really thought about it, until today. That’s when the Second Continental Congress decided that there were too many governments replacing the British one originally there, and therefore everyone needed to get their boats steered in the same direction, you should excuse the expression.

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