By Adrian Saavedra

Carolina Fish Muddle  2 tablespoons olive oil  1 leek, trimmed. rinsed and thinly sliced  1 celery stalk, trimmed and sliced  1 red bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed and thinly sliced  1 green bell pepper, seeds and ribs removed and thinly sliced  ½ cup dry white wine  2 cups diced tomatoes  ¼ cup tomato paste  1 cup fish stock or bottled clam juice  1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon  Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste  18 fresh mussels, scrubbed with beard scraped off  18 littleneck or cherrystone clams, scrubbed  18 large shrimp, peeled and deveined  18 sea scallops  1 pound monkfish, trimmed and cut into slices 3/4-inch thick 

 King Charles found North Carolina in 1663.

North Carolina is a southern colony

 Tar, pitch, lumber, and some crops

 church of England

 It was Carolina but changed because of South Carolina came after.

POPULATION IN 1775 STATEHOOD (WHEN IT BECAME A STATE)   10/21/1789