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Oct. 7, 2015<\/p>\nOct. 7, 2015<\/p>\n
\u201cSodom Laurel was first named\u00a0Revere<\/a>, and is still Revere on topographical maps, but I seldom hear anyone call it anything but Sodom. (Madison County native\u00a0Dellie Norton<\/a>\u00a0said) she had heard that years ago, when logging first came to the region, there were numerous logging camps and a lot of men away from home, with money and time on their hands. Violence and promiscuity were rampant. Dellie had heard that a preacher, upon arriving in Revere and having seen the residents firsthand, remarked \u2018You people are just like a bunch of Sodomites.\u2019 The name stuck.<\/p>\n \u201cLately, partly for religious reasons and, of course, the negative connotations of the name Sodom, some community members have started using the name Revere again…. But also times have changed \u2013 the community is quieter than it used to be \u2013 Revere seems a more apt description of the place.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013 From \u201c<\/em>Sodom Laurel Album<\/em><\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Rob Amberg (2002)<\/em><\/p>\n I guess it fits that a defendant unfortunate enough to be charged with \u201csatanic ritual abuse\u201d would also be unfortunate enough to have his hometown known as Sodom \u2013 a coincidence surely snickered about in the culturally hostile courtroom in Asheville where Junior Chandler was convicted.<\/p>\n Coincidentally, the district attorney in a Hendersonville ritual abuse prosecution infamously ranted about\u00a0Michael Alan Parker\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0having resided in \u201cSodom and Saluda.\u201d (The jury bought his Bible-pounding, but Saludans\u00a0weren\u2019t pleased<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oct. 7, 2015 \u201cSodom Laurel was first named\u00a0Revere, and is still Revere on topographical maps, but I seldom hear anyone call it anything but Sodom. (Madison County native\u00a0Dellie Norton\u00a0said) she had heard that years ago, when logging first came to the region, there were numerous logging camps and a lot of men away from home, […]<\/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-1512","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\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}