Chatham Chatlist Highlights

Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:09:39 EST
From: Ed Williams
Subject: Liquor by the drink

    When I was a kid growing up in Wilmington, NC was a “dry state”. You cold only buy liquor at State ABC stores, in counties that permitted them. The common saying was that it was “the Baptists and the bootleggers” who kept NC dry. Now, there are only 4 “dry counties” in NC. We’re growing up.

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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:43:38 -0500
From: Pete Jaeger
Subject: FLINTLOCK FARM (A-F Biz Listing Dec 1st)
Gene,Glad to share – Thanks for all you do!
12/1/2008
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Flintlock Morgan Horse Farm, Mann’s Chapel Rd, (Northern) Chatham, County
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 It all started quite by accident when in the early ’70’s  Pete & Gael Jaeger purchased a Welsh pony by the name of Strawberry Shortcake. Their young daughters* enjoyed driving in the carriage with their parents but soon they were learning the art of riding. They started at an early age, and what started off as a hobby with the family showing horses on weekends, turned into a business and prominent Morgan training stable in 1973.

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