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Long about 700 A.D., a kingly dynasty emerged from among the people of what is now called France. From 688 to 741 A.D. the politics and military operations of the Frankish people was ruled by a leader, Charles Martel. When Charles died, the kingdom was divided between his sons, Carloman and Pepin. Pepin’s reign over Frankish lands became known, as ages passed, as the Carolingian dynasty. Pepin’s son, Charlemagne, built a legacy of military rule, leadership and regal authority that became known historically as the Carolingian dynasty. Thanks for reading Carey's Snippets! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. In the year 778, Emperor Charlemagne engaged in battle at Roncesvelles pass in the Pyrenees mountains, which are along the border of what is now France and Spain. Events in that battle became, later, the basis for the French epic, Chanson de Roland. As the time of Emperor Charlemagne’s death was approaching, his legacy became known as the Carolingian empire, which ruled the Frankish dominions for the greater part of the 9th century. Later, the name was simplified to “France.” Their epic, the Chanson do Roland, later became the inspiration for naming my first vinyl LP (1978) the Songs of Rowland. But that’s neither here nor there. As I was saying. . A century later, King Louis V ruled for about twenty years. He was the last of what is called the Carolingian dynastry of what later became France. Then centuries rolled through time. About a thousand years later, a new kid on the block of world history came along, Britannia, known these days as Great Britain. The origin point is that island in the North Atlantic, also known as England. A thousand years after the Carolingian empire discombobulated, the Brits were sailing around establishing their hegemony, later known as the world empire on which the sun never sets. Dream on, ye limeys! But anyway, as I was getting to. . . ,During that era of British expansion, they established colonies in North America. On the east coast of the North American continent, the Carolina colony was established. Ultimately the colony was divided into North Carolina and South Carolina. Later, after the thirteen British colonies of north America had fought their way out of British nomination, we established the state of North Carolina.

On our southern border, which runs east-to-west from the Atlantic to the Smoky mountains region, a state line was established to clarify, for all time, that we citizens of North Carolina are who we are, and those folks down there in South Carolina are who they are, and they can do their own thing, I mean, it seems to me that sometimes they get a little cocky. But that’s neither here nor thee. . . it’s there, not here in North Carolina where we live. You see , , , back in the day those cocky South Carolinians started a civil war, and later we got dragged into it, even though we didn’t have near the number of slaves that they had had. But hey! Let bygones be bygones. We’ve managed to forgive them for that. That kind of sumters it all up for you, in a nutshell, a peanut shell or whatever. Even so, I must admit that we tarheels and blue devils and mountaineers and other North Carolinians do like to vacation down there in Myrtle Beach every now and then. But I digress. What i’m getting to here is that, about thirty years ago, I wrote a song about the great state of North Carolina. I thought you might like to hear it; so, if you care to, you can listen to North Carolina Is My Home.