An Embarrassment of Riches
I’m not talking about the flora, nor yet the fauna. I’m not even talking about the incredible beauty of our great state. I am instead talking about the stack of library books about North Carolina directly to my left. The embarrassment comes in because there is so much material I hardly know where to start.
I’ll give you just a few tidbits, and then I will have to do some reading. The first white man to step onto what would become North Carolina was Giovanni da Verrazano in March of 1524. He was an Italian sailing under the French Flag. The first white child born here was Virginia Dare, and three United States Presidents have been born here.
And also, only here in the Carolinas does the Venus Flytrap grow in the wild.
The fly trap isn’t tropical? I always thought it was. Or is it an introduced species that within the US is only found in the Carolinas? More information, please.