728. Hopping through Halifax
A quick little detour off I-95 for an important bit of NC and US history

For years we’d been hearing about this now quiet little town of Halifax in northeastern NC that had a resounding impact in the past, but no one we talked to seemed to have ever visited it, even though a date on the NC state flag relates directly to what happened there on April 12, 1776. To find out exactly what that was, if you didn’t already know, take a short loop back through time, catch a short orientation film at the visitor center, latch onto a free tour or two with a period-costumed guide, and then wander off a bit on your own to check out the tavern that once feted Lafayette and now contains many interesting tidbits of historic information.

Sorry to say, as so often happens in our travels (and sometimes in history, too), as soon as we had hopped through to drop off this little bunny, we moved along to other things and forgot about it. So, a few months passed before we realized that we had misplaced the clue. However, the clue is so simple that even a few words from memory should suffice. Just head to the back (northwest) side of the old jail that is east of the aforementioned tavern, and find a downspout. A few inches east of that downspout in a small “cave” at the bottom of the jail wall is where we tucked this tiny bunny on the back of a little gray stone that we hope will keep it from running away. Not much of a “carve”, to be sure, just a little foam “travelin’ light”, but as most people know about the way we letterbox - for us, at least, it’s not about the quantity or quality of the stamps we manage to find, but the many different places we get to visit as we go “hopping through”!

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