Just made a new YouTube find. It appears that someone preserved some footage of a feature called “Carolina Camera” and has posted them for us to enjoy. This is the type of local human interest stories that will help save local media. The spots are dates, which you can tell by the Pepsi cans and telephones among other things.

Check out the Slingshot Man, who, at 65, could hit quarters in the air and knock Japanese Beetles off leaves without damaging the leaf.

And then there’s Bessie, an 80-year-old sweetheard who acts as jailer/cook/dispatcher for a county jail. She cooked three squares a day for 16 years straight (as of the recording) because she said Matthew 25 compelled her to and she could not have slept if those boys in jail were hungry.

Click here to see more of the “Carolina Camera.” Very interesting indeed.