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40417
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McCorkle’s return to Holden Beach suggested much has changed in the fifty year old island town. In recalling landmarks such as the Surfside Pavilion, a rustic swing bridge, and VanWerry Grocery Store, she proved the town is also the same: in memory.
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Holden Beach (Brunswick County); McCorkle, Jill, 1958-; Authors, North Carolina; Authors, North Carolina--Women; Writers, North Carolina; Writers--North Carolina, Eastern; Long Beach--Civil War--shipwrecks; Hurricane Hazel, 1954; Oak Island; Oak Island--families--Luther Holden ; Holden Beach--families--Luther Holden
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34714
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In honor of Allan Gurganus, these two tributes given at the 2017 North Carolina Writers Conference in Rocky Mount. Describing him as illustrious, dedicated, and talented, Holding and Bonner describe their relationship with the author and how is work continues to touch the lives of everyone who reads them.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 27 Issue , 2018,
p135-141, il, por, f
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28955
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Last spring, Durham’s Jacar Press published the anthology entitled, “Resisting Arrest: Poems to Stretch the Sky”. The book covers racial justice and police brutality in America, and contains contributions from a wide range of North Carolina writers.
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39373
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The Pamlico Writers Group, formed in 1973, will host its fifth annual writers conference at the Turnage Theater in Washington, NC. Four North Carolina publishing companies will be represented. Zelda Lockhart, the Piedmont Laureate of NC, will deliver the keynote address. There will be poetry slams, discussions, writing contests and award ceremonies. The Pamlico Writers Group is one of the affiliates of the Arts of the Pamlico. They have a critique meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Turnage Theater.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 9 Issue No. 1, Feb-Mar 2017,
p42-43
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38947
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Moses Grandy, born into slavery in Camden County, was an author and abolitionist. After being a slave for the first forty years of his life, he became free and worked to purchase the freedom of his wife and children. In 1842, he recounted his life that was published in a book entitled ‘Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late Slave in the United States of America.’ The narrative helped to bring awareness of slavery and fuel the abolitionist movement in both the United States and England.
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Carolina Trees & Branches
(NoCar F 262 A33 C37), Vol. 25 Issue No. 4, October 2016,
p114-115
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27041
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The Durham News’ resident whitesplainer, Bob Wilson, finally called it quits. Wilson had reasonable moments during his tenure, but when he addressed race relations, he served as a reminder of systems and stereotypes that are best left behind. In response to Black Lives Matter protestors, he argued that African-Americans simply needed to stop shooting one another.
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21261
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In her newest book, Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina: A Guidebook, Georgann Eubanks lays out 18 tours that will take readers to places in Eastern North Carolina that have inspired poets, journalists, novelists, and playwrights to write about this area of the state.
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26395
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Bland Simpson is the author of a new book called Sound Country: A Carolinian’s Coastal Plain. Sound Country is the North Carolina region encompassing the five major and ten minor sounds. Bland offers his observations of how ecosystems in the coastal region have changed.
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24440
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Jack Kerouac was a writer who spent time in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The area inspired some of his later work.
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10.A Tar Heel Interview with Tom Heffernan by Umberger, Steve Tar Heel Vol. 7 Issue 4, July/Aug 1979
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35752
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The interview with this Massachusetts native revealed his beliefs about the importance of and teaching approach for poetry. Heffernan also discussed his life as a poet in North Carolina, which he asserted was the “most literary state in the country.”
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35991
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His life didn’t include authorship until he was eighty-three. As if to make up for lost writing time, he has published The Kinnakeeter, and while still engaged in Sunday School teaching, he has started his second book, Isle of Paradise (about Hatteras Island). The careers that occupied his life before writing were teacher, fisherman, wholesale merchant, and co-owner of a seaweed business (he and his father were the first to bring this type of business to Hatteras Island).
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