Posts by Sam Cromartie
2023 Cromartie Family Reunion
The Cromartie Family Reunion will take place on October 7, 2023 with dinner at Little Pond Catering Restaurant in Wilmington, NC and with the main event being lunch at the South River Presbyterian Church in Bladen County for October 8 followed by a speeches by Bob McLeod, president of the Cape Fear Scottish immigration memorial,…
Read MoreOrkney Visit
I traveled to the Orkney Islands this week with my family. My great, great, great grandfather William Cromartie was born there on South Ronaldsey in 1731. This group of over seventy islands are separated from the northern edge of Scotland by the twenty-mile wide Pentland Firth. Strong winds and gales have left large portions of…
Read MoreUkraine
Some Americans are suggesting that we should stop supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight the Russian invasion. They say that Kiev is far away and not our concern—that American money would better be spent on Americans. This was the attitude that Chamberlain and other Western leaders took in 1938. They acquiesced to a madman for…
Read MoreDeath of Stuart Woods
Novelist Stuart Woods died on July 22 of this year. He was one of my favorite writers, and I read everything that he published. Stone Barrington, his attorney protagonist, used wits and gumption to outmaneuver gangsters, spies, and jealous husbands as he bounced from country to country in his private jet plane and rescued beautiful…
Read MoreNuclear Reactors in the United States
There are 440 commercial nuclear reactors in the world with 92 of these in the United States. They utilize nuclear fission to create heat that causes steam to turn turbines that produce electricity. They use uranium for fuel. It is sealed into metal tubes named fuel rods that are bunched together into fuel assemblies. Hundreds…
Read MoreWILLIAM JAMES CROMARTIE BIBLE
William James Cromartie, son of John Cromartie and grandson of William Cromartie, was born 23 April 1824 and died 5 May 1898 in Bladen County, North Carolina. He married Mary Douglas Sloan, daughter of Dickson Sloan and Katherine Bryan. They had eleven children, including my grandfather, Robert Samuel Cromartie M.D. William James possessed a turpentine…
Read More2022 Cromartie Family Reunion
The annual Cromartie Family Reunion is scheduled for Saturday October 8 and Sunday October 9 this year. There will be dinner at Little Pond Catering Restaurant, 2016 Princess Place Drive, Wilmington, N.C. with a cost of $30 on the first night. The main event will take place on Sunday at South River Presbyterian Church in…
Read MoreAnthrax as a biological weapon
Anthrax makes an effective biological weapon because Bacillus anthracis forms spores that can survive for decades and which are highly resistant to antibiotics, certain forms of radiation, and extremes of temperature. These spores can be delivered in an aerosol and thus lodge in the alveoli of the lungs.Inhalational anthrax begins with flu-like symptoms one to…
Read MoreThe Cromartie Family
The majority of Cromarties in the United States trace their ancestry to William Cromartie who came to North Carolina from the Orkney Islands of Scotland in 1765 and his wife Ruhamah Doane. She was descended from Stephen Hopkins, who was stranded on Bermuda for nine months after his ship, the Sea Venture, crashed on the…
Read MoreGain-Of-Function Experiments in Wuhan Institute of Virology
President Richard Nixon in November 1969 announced that the United States was destroying its stockpile of biological weapons and discontinuing all research regarding them other than defensive requirements such as immunization and protection against them. He justified this decision by stating that such weapons have the potential for uncontrollable consequences including global epidemics. Subsequently, in…
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