Record #:

3659

Author(s):

Renfer, Betty Dishong

Abstract:

During colonial times education for the majority of the state's people was largely informal and accomplished through observing family members and the community. Those who would not become farmers could be apprenticed. Only the wealthy could afford to send their children to schools.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 37 Issue 1, Fall 1997, p1-3, il

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Record #:

4165

Author(s):

Renfer, Betty Dishong

Abstract:

Tornadoes are winds violently rotating in a dark column at speeds up to 300 mph. In 1889, a tornado killed fifty-five people near Rockingham. A powerful one hit Greensboro in 1936. Two tornadoes - the Forsyth County tornado of May 1989 and the Stoneville tornado of March 1998 - are profiled.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 38 Issue 2, Spring 1999, p28-31, il

Subject(s):

Tornadoes--Forsyth County; Tornadoes--Stoneville

Record #:

16195

Author(s):

Renfer, Betty Dishong; Sandifer, Alex

Abstract:

African American education, denied before the Civil War by the state's anti-literacy laws, actually began during the war when Vincent Coyler, a Union army chaplain, organized the first school for freed people on July 23, 1863. Various organizations were charged with establishing freedmen schools within the state and two men heading this initiative were Reverends Samuel S. Ashley and James Walker Hood.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 37 Issue 1, Fall 1997, p16-17, il

Subject(s):

African Americans--Education