Spivey's Corner ready to holler SPIVEY'S CORNER, N.C. — For the 37th year, people from all over the world are converging on a small North Carolina town to hear a nearly lost art: hollerin'. About 3,000 people are expected for the contest today. The winner receives a trophy and the recognition of being the champion hollerer. The Annual National Hollerin' Contest raises funds for the town's all-volunteer fire department. But, equally important, it preserves what contest chairman Wayne Edwards calls a North Carolina "oddity." Edwards says hollerin' was Eastern North Carolina's first form of communication. He says people were identified...