So it begins for Sam Hummel.
At some point, he’ll have to go back to court and face a judge in Raleigh for refusing to move out of a legislative building around closing time.
He’s part of a big crowd — one of more than 700 people to be exact. Every Monday, protesters have come from everywhere to participate in North Carolina’s civil disobedience summer. They call it “Moral Monday.”
They want Republican legislators to know what they’re doing is so wrong. Hummel is just one protester. But he’ll be remembered.
He got arrested Monday in The Suit. He is Greensboro’s Uncle Sam.
For 15 years, if you’ve ever gone to the Fun Fourth Festival, you’ve seen him. Hummel waves, poses for pictures and hands out shiny Abraham Lincoln pennies to every inquisitive kid.
“Are you Abraham Lincoln?’’ they ask.
“No,’’ Hummel responds. “But he’s a good friend of mine. My name is Uncle Sam.’’
Hummel came from small-town North Carolina. He’s from Oxford, the youngest child of a life insurance salesman. He became a Marine, went to UNC-Chapel Hill, moved to New York and came back to Greensboro in 1966.
He met his future wife at a pizza parlor on West Market. He got married in 1969, helped raise four kids and worked at Merrill Lynch for 34 years as a personal investment adviser.
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