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00:00In 1958, Beaufort, North Carolina, which is located on the coast near Moorhead City, was a place like many other small southern towns.
00:15It was the kind of place where the humidity rose so high in the summer that walking out to get the mail made a person feel as if he needed a shower, and kids walked around barefoot from April through October beneath oak trees draped in Spanish moss.
00:36People waved from their cars whenever they saw someone on the street, whether they knew him or not, and the air smelled of pine, salt and sea, a scent unique to the Carolinas.
00:50For many of the people there, fishing in the Pamlico Sound or crabbing in the Neuse River was a way of life, and boats were moored wherever you saw the Intracoastal Waterway.
01:06Only three channels came in on the television, though television was never important to those of us who grew up there.
01:16Instead, our lives were centred around the churches, of which there were eighteen within the town limits alone.
01:25They went by names like the Fellowship Hall Christian Church, the Church of the Forgiven People, the Church of Sunday Atonement, and then, of course, there were the Baptist churches.
01:41When I was growing up, it was far and away the most popular denomination around, and there were Baptist churches on practically every corner of town, though each considered itself superior to the others.
01:58There were Baptist churches of every type, free will Baptists, Southern Baptists, Congregational Baptists, Missionary Baptists, Independent Baptists, well, you get the picture.
02:15Back then, the big event of the year was sponsored by the Baptist Church, Downtown's Southern.
02:22If you really want to know, in conjunction with a local high school, every year they put on their Christmas pageant at the Beaufort Playhouse,
02:34which was actually a play that had been written by Hegbert Sullivan, a minister who'd been with the church since Moses parted the Red Sea.
02:43OK, maybe he wasn't that old, but he was old enough that you could almost see through the guy's skin.
02:53It was sort of clammy all the time, and translucent kids would swear they actually saw the blood flowing through his veins.
03:03His hair was as white as those bunnies you see in pet stores around Easter.
03:08Anyway, he wrote this play called The Christmas Angel because he didn't want to keep on performing that old Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.
03:21In his mind, Scrooge was a heathen who came to his redemption only because he saw ghosts, not angels and,
03:31who was to say whether they'd been sent by God, anyway, and who was to say he would untrevert to his sinful ways if they had untbeen sent directly from heaven.
03:44The play did untexactly tell you in the end it sort of plays into faith,
03:50which wasn't explained in plain language, and this was his big problem with it.
04:04A few years back, he de-changed the end of the play sort, or followed it up with his own version,
04:12complete with old man Scrooge becoming a preacher and all.
04:17Heading off to Jerusalem to find the place where Jesus once taught the scribes,
04:23it didn't fly to Wellnot, even to the congregation, who sat in the audience staring wide-eyed at the spectacle.
04:33The newspaper said things like, though it was certainly interesting,
04:38it wasn't exactly the play we've all come to know and love.
04:43So Hegbert decided to try his hand at writing his own play.
04:50He'd written his own sermons his whole life, and some of them, we had to admit, were actually interesting,
04:59especially when he talked about the wrath of God coming down on the fornicators and all that good stuff.
05:07That really got his blood boiling, I'll tell you, when he talked about the fornicators, that was his real hot spot.
05:17When we were younger, my friends and I would hide behind the trees and shout,
05:23Hegbert is a fornicator, when we saw him walking down the street,
05:28and we'd giggle like idiots, like we were the wittiest creatures ever to inhabit the planet.
05:35Old Hegbert, he'd stop dead in his tracks, and his ears would perk up, I swear to God.
05:43They actually moved and, he'd turn this bright shade of red, like he'd just drunk gasoline,
05:50and the big green veins in his neck would start sticking out all over,
05:56like those maps of the Amazon River that you see in National Geographic.
06:01He'd peer from side to side, his eyes narrowing into slits as he searched for us,
06:09and then, just as suddenly, he'd start to go pale again, back to that fishy skin, right before our eyes.
06:20Boy, it was something to watch, that's for sure.
06:25So we'd be hiding behind a tree, and Hegbert, what kind of parents named their kid Hegbert, anyway,
06:34would stand there waiting for us to give ourselves up, as if he thought we'd be that stupid.
06:41We'd put our hands over our mouths to keep from laughing out loud, but somehow he'd always zero in on us.
06:51He'd be turning from side to side, and then he'd stop, those beady eyes coming right at us, right through the tree.
07:00I know who you are, Landon Carter, he'd say, and the Lord knows, too.
07:09He'd let that sink in for a minute or so, and then he'd finally head off again.
07:15And during the sermon that weekend, he'd stare right at us, and say something like,
07:23God is merciful to children, but the children must be worthy as well,
07:29and we'd sort of lower ourselves in the seats, not from embarrassment, but to hide a new round of giggles.
07:39Hegbert didn't understand us at all, which was really sort of strange,
07:45being that he had a kid and all, but then again, she was a girl.
07:51More on that, though, later.
07:54Anyway, like I said, Hegbert wrote The Christmas Angel one year,
07:59and decided to put on that play instead.
08:03The play itself wasn't bad, actually, which surprised everyone the first year it was performed.
08:11It's basically the story of a man who had lost his wife a few years back.
08:18This guy, Tom Thornton, used to be real religious,
08:23but he had a crisis of faith after his wife died during childbirth.
08:28He's raising this little girl all on his own, but he hasn't been the greatest father.
08:34And what the little girl really wants for Christmas is a special music box with an angel engraved on top,
08:43a picture of which she'd cut out from an old catalogue.
08:47The guy searches long and hard to find the gift, but he can't find it anywhere.
08:54So it's Christmas Eve, and he's still searching, and while he's out looking through the stores,
09:01he comes across a strange woman he's never seen before,
09:05and she promises to help him find the gift for his daughter.
09:10First, though they helped this homeless person back then,
09:14they were called bums, by the way.
09:17They stop at an orphanage to see some kids,
09:23then visit a lonely old woman who just wanted some company on Christmas Eve.
09:30At this point, the mysterious woman asks Tom Thornton what he wants for Christmas,
09:37and he says that he wants his wife back.
09:40She brings him to the city fountain and tells him to look in the water,
09:46and he'll find what he's looking for.
09:50When he looks in the water, he sees the face of his little girl,
09:55and he breaks down and cries right there.
09:59While he's sobbing, the mysterious lady runs off,
10:03and Tom Thornton searches, but can't find her anywhere.
10:07Eventually, he heads home, the lessons from the evening playing in his mind.
10:15He walks into his little girl's room,
10:18and her sleeping figure makes him realise that she's all he has left of his wife,
10:24and he starts...
10:26to cry again because he knows he has un't been a good enough father to her.
10:31The next morning, magically, the music box is underneath the tree,
10:38and the angel that S engraved on it looks exactly like the woman he'd de-seen the night before.
10:46So it wasn't that bad, really.
10:49If truth be told, people cried buckets whenever they saw it.
10:54The play sold out every year it was performed,
10:59and, due to its popularity,
11:01Hegbert eventually had to move it from the church to the Beaufort Playhouse,
11:06which had a lot more seating.
11:09By the time I was a senior in high school,
11:13the performances ran twice to packed houses,
11:16which, considering who actually performed it,
11:19was a story in and of itself.
11:22You see, Hegbert wanted young people to perform the play seniors in high school,
11:29not the theatre group.
11:31I reckon he thought it would be a good learning experience
11:35before the seniors headed off to college
11:37and came face-to-face with all the fornicate.
11:41He was that kind of guy,
11:44you know, always wanting to save us from temptation.
11:47He wanted us to know that God is out there watching you,
11:53even when you're away from home,
11:55and that if you put your trust in God,
11:58you'll be all right in the end.
12:01It was a lesson that I would eventually learn in time,
12:05though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me.
12:08As I said before, Beaufort was fairly typical
12:13as far as southern towns went,
12:16though it did have an interesting history.
12:19Blackbeard the pirate once owned a house there,
12:23and his ship, Queen Anne's Revenge,
12:26is supposedly buried somewhere in the sand just offshore.
12:30Recently, some archaeologists or oceanographers
12:35or whoever looks for stuff like that
12:38said they found it, but no one's certain just yet,
12:42being that it sank over 250 years ago
12:46and you cue on to exactly reach into the glove compartment
12:50and check the registration.
12:53Beaufort's come a long way since the 1950s,
12:57but it's still not exactly a major metropolis or anything.
13:03Beaufort was, and always will be, on the smallish side,
13:08but when I was growing up,
13:10it barely warranted a place on the map.
13:14To put it into perspective,
13:17the congressional district that included Beaufort
13:20covered the entire eastern part
13:23of the Estatesham 20,000 square miles and
13:28there was on't a single town
13:30with more than 25,000 people.
13:34Even compared with those towns,
13:37Beaufort was regarded as being on the small side.
13:41Everything east of Raleigh and north of Wilmington,
13:45all the way to the Virginia border,
13:47was the district my father represented.
13:50I suppose you've heard of him.
13:53He's sort of a legend, even now.
13:56His name is Worth Carter,
13:58and he was a congressman for almost 30 years.
14:03His slogan every other year during the election season
14:07was Worth Carter Represents,
14:10and the person was supposed to fill in the city name
14:13where he or she lived.
14:15I can remember driving on trips
14:18when me and Ma had to make our appearances
14:22to show the people he was a true family man
14:26that we'd see.
14:28Those bumper stickers stenciled in with names
14:32like Otway and Chakawinity and Seven Springs.
14:37Nowadays, stuff like that wouldn't fly,
14:40but back then that was fairly sophisticated publicity.
14:44I imagine if he tried to do that now,
14:49people opposing him would insert all sorts of foul language
14:54in the blank space,
14:55but we never saw it once.
14:59Okay, maybe once.
15:02A farmer from Duplin County once wrote the word shit
15:07in the blank space,
15:09and when my mum saw it,
15:11she covered my eyes and said a prayer
15:14asking for forgiveness for the poor ignorant bastard.
15:18She didn't say exactly those words,
15:22but I got the gist of it.
15:24So, my father, Mr. Congressman,
15:27was a bigwig,
15:29and everyone but everyone knew it,
15:32including old man Hegbert.
15:35Now, the two of them didn't get along,
15:38not at all,
15:40despite the fact that my father went to Hegbert's church
15:44whenever he was in town,
15:46which, to be frank, wasn't all that often.
15:49Hegbert, in addition to his belief that fornicators
15:53were destined to clean the urinals in hell,
15:57also believed that communism was a sickness
16:01that doomed mankind to heathenhood.
16:05Even though heathenhood was unt a word I cuant,
16:09find it in any dictionary the congregation knew what he meant.
16:14They also knew that he was directing his words
16:19specifically to my father,
16:21who would sit with his eyes closed
16:24and pretend not to listen.
16:27My father was on one of the House committees
16:30that oversaw the red influence
16:33supposedly infiltrating every aspect of the country,
16:38including national defence,
16:40higher education and even tobacco farming.
16:45You have to remember that this was during the Cold War.
16:50Tensions were running high
16:52and we North Carolinians needed something
16:55to bring it down to a more personal level.
16:59My father had consistently looked for facts
17:02which were irrelevant to people like Hegbert.
17:06Afterward, when my father would come home
17:09after the service,
17:11he'd say something like,
17:13Reverend Sullivan was in rare form to date.
17:17I hope you heard that part about the scripture
17:20where Jesus was talking about the poor.
17:24Yeah, sure, Dad.
17:27My father tried to defuse situations whenever possible.
17:32I think that's why he stayed in Congress for so long.
17:36The guy could kiss the ugliest babies known to mankind
17:40and still come up with something nice to say.
17:45He's such a gentle child,
17:47he'd say when a baby had a giant head.
17:51Or I'll bet she's the sweetest girl in the world
17:55if she had a birthmark over her entire face.
17:59One time a lady showed up with a kid in a wheelchair.
18:04My father took one look at him and said,
18:08I'll bet you ten to one that you're smartest kid in your class.
18:13And he was.
18:14Yeah, my father was great at stuff like that.
18:18He could fling it with the best of M,
18:21that's for sure.
18:22And he wasn't such a bad guy.
18:25Not really,
18:26especially if you consider the fact
18:29that he didn't beat me or anything.
18:32But he wasn't there for me growing up.
18:35I hate to say that because,
18:38nowadays, people claim that sort of stuff
18:40even if their parent was around
18:43and use it to excuse their behaviour.
18:45My dad, he didn't love me,
18:48that's why I became a stripper
18:50and performed on the Jerry Springer show.
18:53I'm not using it to excuse the person.
18:57I've become,
18:58I'm simply saying it as a fact.
19:01My father was gone nine months of the year,
19:06living out of town in a Washington, D.C. apartment
19:10300 miles away.
19:12My mother did unt go with him
19:15because both of them wanted me
19:17to grow up the same way they had.
19:20Of course,
19:21my father's father took him hunting and fishing,
19:25taught him to play ball,
19:27showed up for birthday parties,
19:30all that small stuff
19:31that adds up to quite a bit before adulthood.
19:36My father, on the other hand,
19:38was a stranger,
19:40someone I barely knew at all.
19:43For the first five years of my life,
19:47I thought all fathers lived somewhere else.
19:50It wasn't until my best friend,
19:53Eric Hunter,
19:54asked me in kindergarten
19:56who that guy was
19:57who showed up at my house.
19:59The night before that,
20:01I realised something was unt quite right
20:04about the situation.
20:05He's my father,
20:07I said proudly.
20:10Oh,
20:11Eric said as he rifled through my lunchbox,
20:15looking for my Milky Way.
20:17I didn't know you had a father.
20:20Talk about something whacking you straight in the face.
20:24So,
20:25I grew up under the care of my mother.
20:29Now,
20:29she was a nice lady,
20:31sweet and gentle,
20:33the kind of mother most people dream about.
20:36But she wasn't,
20:38nor could she ever be,
20:40a manly influence in my life.
20:42And that fact,
20:45coupled with my growing disillusionment with my father,
20:49made me become something of a rebel,
20:52even at a young age.
20:54Not a bad one,
20:56mind you.
20:57Me and my friends
20:59might sneak out late
21:00and soap up car windows now and then,
21:03or eat boiled peanuts
21:05in the graveyard behind the church.
21:08But in the 50s,
21:10that was the kind of thing
21:12that made other parents
21:13shake their heads
21:15and whisper to their children.
21:17You don't want to be like that Carter boy.
21:21He's on the fast track to prison.
21:24Me,
21:25a bad boy,
21:26for eating boiled peanuts
21:28in the graveyard.
21:30Go figure.
21:31Anyway,
21:32my father and Hegbert
21:34didn't get along,
21:36but it wasn't only
21:37because of politics.
21:39No,
21:40it seems that my father
21:42and Hegbert
21:43knew each other
21:44from way back when.
21:46Hegbert was about
21:4820 years older
21:49than my father,
21:50and back before
21:51he was a minister,
21:53he used to work
21:54for my father's father.
21:57My grandfather,
21:59even though
21:59he spent lots of time
22:01with my father,
22:03was a true bastard
22:04if there ever was one.
22:06He was the one,
22:08by the way,
22:09who made the family fortune,
22:11but I don't want you
22:13to imagine him
22:14as the sort of man
22:16who slaved over his business.
22:19Working diligently
22:21and watching it grow,
22:23prospering slowly over time.
22:26My grandfather
22:27was much shrewder than that.
22:30The way he made
22:32his money
22:32was simple.
22:34He started
22:35as a bootlegger,
22:36accumulating wealth
22:38throughout Prohibition
22:39by running rum
22:41up from Cuba.
22:42Then he began
22:44buying land
22:45and hiring sharecroppers
22:47to work it.
22:48He took 90%
22:50of the money
22:51the sharecroppers
22:52made on their tobacco crop,
22:54then loaned them money
22:56whenever they needed it
22:58at ridiculous interest rates.
23:01Of course,
23:02he never intended
23:03to collect the money.
23:05Instead,
23:06he would foreclose
23:07on any land
23:08or equipment
23:09they happened to own.
23:12Then,
23:12in what he called
23:14his moment of inspiration,
23:17he started a bank
23:19called Carter Banking
23:20and Loan,
23:22the only other bank
23:23in a two-county radius
23:25had mysteriously
23:26burned down
23:27and with the onset
23:29of the depression,
23:31it never reopened.
23:33Though everyone knew
23:35what had really happened,
23:37not a word
23:38was ever spoken
23:39for fear of retribution
23:41and their fear
23:42was well placed.
23:44The bank
23:45wasn't the only building
23:47that had mysteriously
23:48burned down.
23:49His interest rates
23:51were outrageous
23:52and little by little
23:55he began amassing
23:56more land
23:57and property
23:58as people
23:59defaulted
24:00on their loans.
24:01When the depression
24:03hit hardest,
24:04he foreclosed
24:05on dozens
24:06of businesses
24:07throughout the county
24:08while retaining
24:10the original owners
24:11to continue
24:12to work on salary,
24:14paying them
24:14just enough
24:15to keep them
24:16where they were
24:17because they had
24:18nowhere else to go.
24:19He told them
24:21that when the economy
24:22improved,
24:23he'd sell their business
24:24back to them
24:25and people
24:26always believed him.
24:29Never once,
24:30however,
24:30did he keep
24:31his promise.
24:33In the end,
24:34he controlled
24:36a vast portion
24:37of the county's economy
24:39and he abused
24:41his clout
24:41in every way
24:43imaginable.
24:44I'd like to tell you
24:46he eventually
24:47went to a terrible death.
24:50But he didn't.
24:51He died
24:52at a ripe old age
24:54while sleeping
24:54with his mistress
24:55on his yacht
24:56off the Cayman Islands.
24:58He'd outlived
25:00both his wives
25:01and his only son.
25:03Some end
25:04for a guy like that,
25:05huh?
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