Pictured is Dwight Watt holding a copy of The Forest-Blade in front of the City Hall in Swansboro, NC. While attending two conferences in eastern North Carolina last week, he passed through Swansboro, located on the coast.
“Apparently their founders could not afford to put an ‘I’ in the name versus us. Actually, they named it for a man named Swann. There is a college I work with and take courses from named for their county and they always say the county could not afford an ‘e’. It is Stanly Community College,” said Watt.