Interested in this lecture on the Regulators?

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The Regulators were hanged in Hillsborough, about eight miles from where I'm seated at this moment, on 16 May 1771.

This notice was just posted on Nextdoor, and you probably can't view the original (which has photos) without being logged in, and maybe subscribed to a local (RTP-area) list. Meanwhile, I will post additional info in the comments.

Deborah

Nextdoor post

https://nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=111115668

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From Regulators to Revolution: How Orange County, North Carolina, Changed American History.

 

There will be a talk given by Mr. Scott Washington with the above title on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the New Hope Improvement Association Building, 4012 Whitfield Road, Chapel Hill. This building is beside the New Hope Volunteer Fire Department. It is free and open to all. All I ask is that you bring a dessert that can be shared. The talk is suitable for the whole family. Mr. Scott Washington was Assistant Director of the Orange County Historical Museum in Hillsborough. He is an American historian, scholar. writer, and a lively speaker. Scott is the weekly co-host of “History Matters” on the Aaron Keck Show, broadcast on WCHL FM radio in Chapel Hill and heard throughout the Triangle area and on the Internet. I promise that this will not be a dull evening. So, please put this on your calendar for Wednesday, May 22nd.

in The Tree House by Deborah Shaw G2G6 (8.9k points)
edited by Deborah Shaw

There's a link here to listen live. Chapel Hill is in the EDT time zone. On this world clock, it's in the same time zone as DC.

I'm not used to WCHL having an FM station (97.9), which is new; I'm used to listening to them on AM 1360.

I went poking about a few years ago to see if I could find the exact spot where the hangings took place. As far as I could determine, it's on the northeast edge of the parking lot at the board of education building on Margaret Lane, near a small 19th-century (I'm guessing) free-standing office. The North Carolina Regulators were Patriots; the South Carolina Regulators were "a vigilante force of propertied elite men," many of whom were Tories.

If you're local enough to come to the lecture in person, and it's a nice day, you should come early and have a walk in Duke Forest.

Take exit 266 from I-40 (at NC 86). Whitfield Road is a right turn maybe 500 feet north of the exit. The venue is attached to a fire station a couple of miles down, on the north side of Whitfield, approximately where Sunrise Road T-intersects Whitfield. It's also where the Concrete Bridge trail comes out of the forest.

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This sounds like a great lecture. Some of my family came from those areas and I've never looked into this info before.  Too bad I am so far away!
by Edie Kohutek G2G6 Mach 9 (98.0k points)
See if you can get the station online through the link in my first comment above.

In fact, I'd be interested to confirm whether people from anywhere can get the station online. Might make an interesting homework assignment for a class on U.S. history.

Anyone like to try it and post a comment with time and place? As a pre-broadcast test?

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