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34490
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Lucas details growing up in Morehead City during the 1930s. She addresses various aspects of daily life including household chores, food preparation, and livestock. There are also personal recollections of the 1933 hurricane.
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34496
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In the third installation of childhood anecdotes, Lucas recalls attending church services with her family, home medical treatment, entertainment; employment; local community members; and holiday traditions. Food and traditions are central to many of the memories.
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3.Fred Royal and the 50 Cents Haircut by Brinson, Thomas The Researcher Vol. 10 Issue 2, Spring 1994
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34517
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Brinson fondly remembers going to see Fred Royal at Mr. Fred’s barbershop in downtown Morehead City. Mr. Royal, a barber between 1891 and 1956, was an active member of the community and, as Brinson recalls, created an environment for discussing current events and catching up on daily life in his shop.
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34533
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Brinson remembers some of the local grocery stores in Morehaed City including El Nelson, Cherry’s, Kib Guthrie’s and Pender’s. These neighborhood markets were welcoming to their clients and provided personalized services including home grocery delivery. Brinson worked as a delivery boy for El Nelson during his childhood. He further recounts his childhood pet, a dog named Mutt, accompanying his father on grocery runs.
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34563
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Over 70 middle school students from Carteret County submitted historical essays to the annual Carteret County Historical Society writing contest. Topics of the essays included historical Harkers Island buildings, the Beaufort cemetery, and other civic and social spaces in Carteret County. The winning essays from each grade level are included in the article.
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34589
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Brinson recalls her first visit to Lion Tamer’s Camp in Salter Path, ca. 1934. As Salter Path had no tourist infrastructure, the family used a small vernacular craft to travel over to the banks. Other residents did have cars and could access Morehead City at low tide. The village of Salter Path itself consisted of a few properties with small, one story clapboard houses, and their gardens. The village post office, situated in the front room of a local resident, was a local meeting place.
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35045
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An anecdote about a string of bad luck.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 2 Issue 1, Sept 1954,
p17
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35080
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This is a collection of highly exaggerated anecdotes surrounding the history of Anson County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 1, July 1955,
p21-23
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35142
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A collection of anecdotes from Anson County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 5 Issue 1, July 1957,
p22-24
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35172
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A short anecdote about a deacon who falls asleep during one session, and wakes up during another and accidentally advocates for the continuation of prostitution.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 9 Issue 1, July 1961,
p9
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35241
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Starting with a brief biography of her father, Ms. Currin recorded several stories, tall tales, and anecdotes that Joe Currin had told. These tales are categorized by hunting and fishing, local characters, numskull tales, and miscellaneous.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 1, July 1964,
p1-6
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35249
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An African American woman told this story to Mrs. Johnson about a mule that was blind in the time after the Civil War and persevered, and the story teller drew some parallels to racism in their current life in 1955 in Mississippi.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Dec 1964,
p25-26
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35296
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Written by a Baptist minister, “Fischer’s River Scenes and Characters” portrays the customs and social life of people in the southern mountains of North Carolina. Customs, attitudes, anecdotes, and tall tales are all included in the author’s analysis of the book.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 16 Issue 3, Nov 1968,
p143-152
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Record #:
35840
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Two variations of the same story start off this essay about how folk cultural materials, whether oral or physical, must change over time in order to survive.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 32 Issue 1, Spring-Summer 1984,
p33-37
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35891
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Diving into her own genealogy, the author compares family tales to the archival records from the Civil War to decipher truth from tale.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p118-123
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