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No matter your politics or religious affiliation or affliction; Cecil Bothwell, the maverick Asheville City Council member, builder and prolific writer, will inform and energize your thoughts. He will also answer questions you may not have known you had, such as: what is a "dead man's chest"? or how did Kill Devil Hill get that name?
August 18, 2014 by cecilbothwell
Here’s the basic text of the message I delivered to the Unitarian Universalist congregation in Franklin, NC, August 17, 2014. (The lyrics marked with a * are sung, not spoken.)
*15 men on a dead man’s chest
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum*
On July 11 I woke up at 4:30 a.m. with a great title for today’s talk. “Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum!” Together with the subtitle: Black death, white sugar and the quest for a living wage.”
