A Road to the Past

HELLO!  My name is Jill, but if you're reading this, good chance you already know me somehow.  But I guess a couple things first.  Um, I play tennis, I like to swing dance, and one of my guilty pleasures is watching Hilary Duff movies on rainy days.  It's raining today, but I ran out of Hilary Duff movies, so I'm watching Gangs of New York instead. But enough about me.  There's a point to this post, and to the blog.  Ever seen those road markers that blurb a little about a person, a place, or an event?  Around NC, they're grey and somewhat bland.  They're what people call Historical Markers, and they're also all over the country (except for Arizona, unfortunately, unless Wikipedia is wrong).  I used to live in DC, and I never really saw any there; but then again, the Mall has like 10 museums, so I guess why bother?  But when my parents and I moved down to Chapel Hill (where I am now), I always thought it was cool that history still lin...