by Greg Bohmert | Aug 23, 2024 | Oriental NC
When Mao Zedong was losing his iron grip on China in 1966, after his disastrous “Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1962, in which thirty to forty Million people, mostly Peasants, died from starvation, forced labor and executions… To consolidate his power once again… he...
by Greg Bohmert | Mar 21, 2024 | Oriental NC
My sister had married a Raleigh boy and in 1993 strongly recommended that I check out “Oriental, the Sailing Capital” of North Carolina, as a possible location to build my Empire fixing boats. I was dead tired when I finally found the tiny town of Oriental at the very...
