{"id":1450,"date":"2015-06-18T18:58:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2016-07-03T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T20:05:46","slug":"in-1993-predicting-a-historic-marker-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"In 1993, predicting a historic marker \u2013 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style361\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150618BarkerHouse.jpg\" alt=\"150618BarkerHouse\" width=\"260\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150618BarkerHouse.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/150618BarkerHouse-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>June 18, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Given my thoroughly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1354\">unsuccessful attempt<\/a>\u00a0to persuade the State of North Carolina to erect a historic marker recalling the Little Rascals Day Care case, I had to laugh at discovering this 1993 letter to the Elizabeth City Daily Advance:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cDear Editor:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cThe year is 2022. The town of Edenton, last stop on the witch-hunt trail beginning in Salem, Mass., with an intermediate stop at Joe McCarthy\u2019s office in Washington, D.C., has finally decided to build a historic marker. (It will be) directly across the street from the town\u2019s $4 million tour center, where people gather from across the nation (indeed, from around the world) to see and feel and learn about the Edenton witch hunts of 1990-1993&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIt is here where the walking tours start, where the T-shirts are sold and where the buses disgorge their curious cargo&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">Letter writer David W. Tucker of San Francisco \u2013 who in all likelihood had recently watched \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/Innocence\/2AA\/Verdict1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Innocence Lost: The Verdict<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u2013 expressed confidence that the marker\u00a0would eventually be approved, even if not by 2022:<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe only question is whether the marker will speak of the community\u2019s collective shame<br \/>\nor, instead, of the individuals and groups of good will and courage who brought lasting honor to Edenton by rescuing Bob Kelly, Dawn Wilson, the Twiddy family and the others from the nightmare that fear, hate and ignorance visited upon them&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 18, 2015 Given my thoroughly\u00a0unsuccessful attempt\u00a0to persuade the State of North Carolina to erect a historic marker recalling the Little Rascals Day Care case, I had to laugh at discovering this 1993 letter to the Elizabeth City Daily Advance: \u201cDear Editor: \u201cThe year is 2022. The town of Edenton, last stop on the witch-hunt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}