Scuppernong Scuppernong River in North Carolina mainly along the coastal plain. It was first mentioned as a "white grape" in a written logbook by the Florentine explorer Giovanni de Verrazzano while exploring the Cape Fear River Valley in 1524. He wrote "...Many vines growing naturally there...". Sir Walter Raleigh's explorers, the captains Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe, wrote in 1584 that North Carolina's coast was "...so full of grapes as the very beating and surge of the sea overflowed them...in all the world, the like abundance is not to be found." He may have been referring to Sargasso seaweed from coral
The USA Is a Monster first EP and LP released on the tiny Infrasound label. The group signed to Load Records in 2003 and issued four full-lengths on the label – "Tasheyana Compost" in 2003, "Wohaw" in 2005, "Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age" in 2006, and "Space Programs" in 2008. Their last album of new material, "R.I.P.", was released on Northern Spy Records in 2010, after the band officially announced their break-up in 2009. The band released a compilation of old material entitled "Lost and Found" on cassette via Northern Spy in 2012. The USA Is a Monster The USA Is a