This is a cool little bit of Henderson County history.
George Cunningham was convicted of murder in 1875 at age twenty. He was sentenced to be hung, but spectators believed that when he was hung that his feet never left the ground and he was cut down too quickly. They believed he was secretly released and he ran away.
In the 1950s his descendants received legal permission to dig up his coffin to examine the body.
The coffin contained a tree trunk; no human remains.
(Patty’s Chapel Cemetery - Fletcher, NC)
Photo is mine, information courtesy of Henderson County Heritage and History.
One of the best political cartoons that I’ve seen.
You know what pisses me off about this? Really, REALLY pisses me off? That’s George (H.W.) Bush holding that umbrella. He was president 1981-1989. Do you get that?
It means that the right have not budged an inch on their ridiculous pro-foetus, anti-actual-persons position in THIRTY GODDAMN YEARS. We should not still be having this argument! Thirty year old political cartoons should be bafflingly opaque, not crystal clear!