Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
Search Results
45 results
for Walser, Richard
Currently viewing results 1 - 15
|
PAGE
OF 3
|
Next |
Record #:
2611
Author(s):
Abstract:
Born in Pitt County, William D. Herrington served in the Confederate cavalry during the Civil War and wrote three novels based on his experiences. He disappeared after being captured in 1865 and was never heard from again.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
2820
Author(s):
Abstract:
There are a number of writers of Romance novels in the state, but Dixie Burrus Browning of Winston-Salem is perhaps the most successful and prolific. She has published forty books since 1977.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
8690
Author(s):
Abstract:
In the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries, the U.S. Congress allowed senators to orate long speeches every Saturday. These speeches were written down and printed in newspapers. One Saturday in 1820, North Carolina senator Felix Walker announced he wanted to “make a speech for Buncombe.†He then launched into a speech lasting several hours during which he did not say anything useful. Such a speech became known as BUNCOMBE and appears in the unabridged Merriam-Webster English dictionary.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
9289
Author(s):
Abstract:
Many of Governor Zeb Vance's famous witticisms were recorded in two biographies of Vance, published in 1897 and 1965. However, STATE CHRONICLE journalist Walter Hines Page asked readers to send in stories told by Vance, and published them in the October 13, 1883 issues of the CHRONICLE. Several of them are re-printed in this article.\r\n
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
9591
Author(s):
Abstract:
In 1916, Thomas Wolfe joined the Dialectic Literary Society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Although often late or absent from meetings, his work in oration can be seen in the rhetoric he employed in his novels. Although Wolfe remained a member throughout his college career, he became more involved in the campus newspaper during his senior year, and his literary society activities suffered.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
11289
Author(s):
Abstract:
Walser reviews some of North Carolina's literary firsts, including the first play written by a native North Carolinian.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
11943
Author(s):
Abstract:
The history and folklore of concerning Hatteras banks has been recounted in Ben Dixon MacNeill's The Hatterasman. Although not a native of North Carolina, MacNeill, a well-known newspaperman, spent his youth enjoying Hatteras. MacNeill's volume outlines the early settlement of Hatteras, through the World War II.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
12187
Author(s):
Abstract:
The legends revolving around the origin of the work \"Tar Heel\" are numerous and confusing. The two most frequently cited yarns come from explanations in Clark's North Carolina Regiments (1901), and Creecy's Grandfather's Tales of North Carolina History (1901). Both versions were written long after the supposed events, and refer to the Civil War era, when the North Carolina soldiers were presumably noted for not retreating from advanced positions that they gained a reputation of having tar on their heels, incapacitating their flight in the heat of battle.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13100
Author(s):
Abstract:
The tradition of handing down ancient ballads is still occurring in the hills and coastlands of North Carolina. Betty Vaiden Williams became attracted to ballad-singing after a trip to Kentucky, leading her to search for material and collections of Appalachian songs. She has appeared on Bill O'Sullivan's \"Poor Richard\" Almanac program over WUNC-TV and is considered to be the foremost interpreter of North Carolina ballads.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13180
Author(s):
Abstract:
Good Morning, Miss Dove, a novel by Frances Gray Patton, a Durham, North Carolina native, has been produced into a movie by Cinemascope and Technicolor starring Jennifer Jones. The best-selling novel, which began as a short story printed in Ladies Home Journal, tells the story of a geography teacher trying to make better citizens of her students. The novel has been awarded with the Christopher Literary Award and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for excellence in fiction by a North Carolina writer. Patton has written a series of short stories, plays, and articles regularly seen in Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Collier's, and the New Yorker.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13201
Author(s):
Abstract:
Published in 1588 and written by Thomas Harriot, the book, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia became the first English work written about America.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13290
Author(s):
Abstract:
Walser suggests fifteen books every North Carolinian should read and own. They include works of history, literature, and poetry.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13324
Author(s):
Abstract:
A mixture of facts, tall tales, and adventure, John Lawson's, A New Voyage to Carolina: Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of that Country, serves as the first account of travel and life in early 18th-century North Carolina.
Source:
Full Text:
Record #:
13437
Author(s):
Abstract:
LeGette Blythe, long-time newspaper man for the Charlotte Observer, is defined by the term professional writer, earning his entire income from the writing of books. Blythe, known as the literary squire of Mecklenburg, was raised in Huntersville and attended the University of North Carolina before working for the Charlotte News, and the New York Post. Blythe returned to the Charlotte Observer, working as a reporter until he began his successful career as a writer of books in 1950.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text:
Record #:
13520
Author(s):
Abstract:
In March 1524, thirty-two years after Columbus' discovery of the New World, the first white man, Giovanni da Verrazano, visited the shores of what is now North Carolina. Though a native of Florence, Italy, he was a navigator at the time in the employ of the King of France.
Source:
Subject(s):
Full Text: