Out on the wind this weekend were remnants of long-ago roots, nearly lost but now being sought with fervor by a hard-working group with a passion for their community and their past. I am speaking of the inaugural John Lawson Legacy Days observance in Grifton.

Beginning Friday evening and ending with a festive fish stew last night, the “Days” commemorated a seminal period of North Carolina and Pitt County history.

Three hundred years ago this fall, explorer and author John Lawson found himself ensnared in the beginnings of a Tuscarora Indian uprising that would result in his death and that of many other settlers and native Americans. The conflict ultimately would end the Indians’ multi-millennial civilization along the Contentnea Creek and other waters of eastern North Carolina.

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