A Road to the Past

Just north of the northwest corner at South Wilmington and East Morgan in downtown Raleigh Y'all. Get ready for another really short post! The North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. It's a professional organization for pharmacists in North Carolina, and now known as the North Carolina Association of Pharmacists. But way back when, it was established as the NCPA in 1880, as response to the NC Medical Society. See, what happened was that State Medical Board, as the Legislature was working on pharmaceutical regulation  (page 14), decided to be like "Let the State Legislature handle qualifications".  Context: the North Carolina Medical Board was established about 20 years ago to regulate and license qualified doctors, but no such body existed for pharmacists at this point. So what the Medical Board (i.e., doctors) was basically doing was like "Eh, it'll be fine, let the Legislature handle it. We don't know much about the pharmacists/pharmacy indust

Near the northwestern corner of the intersection of Buckhorn Quarter Road and US 58 (Southampton Parkway) UPDATE! One of my favorite podcasts - More Perfect - did an episode on the Dred Scott case, its political impact, and its impact on the descendants of the affected families! You can find the episode here . Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have arrived to Virginia now! I found this in/near Brunswick County (the home of the original Brunswick Stew, but that's another sign for another day). It looks like there's two parts to this story - one part on the family that owned him, and one part on Dred Scott himself - but actually it's all centered around Dred Scott. Also, for you handful of Grinnellians reading this, I also dusted off my old Con Law book from Strauber's class: Constitutional Law: Cases in Context: Volume 1: Federal Governmental Powers and Federalism  by James C. Foster and Susan M. Leeson (1