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  • From: "Phil Hammond" <xlate AT yahoo.com>
  • To: "RTP-area local music and culture" <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: OT: Looking for Kudzu
  • Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 23:16:12 -0400

Okay, I knew Chris Calloway would have a good suggestion, and I wasn't disappointed. I forwarded this and all the other posts (Mike, John, Kevin) to my friend who's doing the survey. He's basically doing this to investigate kudzu as a possible ecological remediation plant. From what I understand, it has something to do with kudzu's nitrogen-fixing properties. It just happens to be a happy accident that he's studying this at the same time that kudzu's in the news for it's alcohol-related benefits.

And please, if you have more kudzu viewing suggestions, please post them.

Thanks,
-Phil

----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Calloway" <ifoufo AT yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.music.chapel-hill
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Looking for Kudzu



There's a road which used to be US Hwy 421 between
Goldston and Sanford (going from Chatham to Lee
Counties). It runs parallel and a few miles to the
west of the current US 421. In places, it is called
"Old 421." Basically, find your way to the center of
Goldston and head southeast out of town on the main
drag. The road parallels train tracks all the way
through Gulf, NC. It goes near Bonlee and Bear Creek
along the way.

On this road, the kudzu is so thick on either side for
miles that it crawls up the power lines and jumps
across the road to the other side. You can practically
drive through tunnels of kudzu in places where the
road goes through some old quarries to the northwest
of Gulf. The quarries were open pits mined for clay to
make pipes. Kudzu is the only thing that will grow
there now. It's way spooky. It looks like the backdrop
for some gothic redneck horror story. East of Gulf,
where the operational quarries are today, the
landscape becomes flat and grassy again.

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