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[Note: This originally appeared as a column several years ago in The Nashville Graphic] Maybe you remember that song that helped start the folk music scene of the late 1950s and 1960s. Maybe you remember the Darlings “scratching one off” for Andy Griffith. Or, maybe you just are into folklore. At…
School teacher Peter Stuart Ney died on November 15, 1846 in Rowan County. He was part of a great legend that ended with a deathbed confession that he was Napoleon’s right-hand man. It was said that Marshal Michel Ney escaped a firing squad in 1815 and managed to make his way to America. It is…