The Charlotte Checkers opened the 2023-24 AHL season by splitting a pair of games against the visiting Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins at Bojangles Coliseum over…
2013: Launching the Lochaber BID business plan at the ‘sore feet’ statue in Fort William’s Gordon Square, the steering group, from left: Don Hind, Finlay Finlayson Frazer Coupland and Helen MacGillivray. Picture: Iain Ferguson, The Wright Image.
Historian David Cecelski shares an excerpt about a brief strike in April 1935 at a convict labor camp in Perquimans County from Dr. Susan Thomas’ dissertation that examines the history of the largely African American chain gangs that built public roads in the early 20th century.