Record #:

33203

Author(s):

Abernathy, Mrs. Max

Abstract:

The uninspiring and drab looking gourd has been developed into a thing of real charm and beauty by the “Gourd Village Garden Club”

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 21, Oct 1938, p3, 18, il

Subject(s):

Gourds; Garden clubs--Chapel Hill

Record #:

20278

Author(s):

Wilson, Eddie W.

Abstract:

The gourd and its role in southern history and society as food, vessel, and tool is examined using archeological, anthropological and ethnological methods. Black and white photographs of various incarnations of gourds are included.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 26 Issue 3, July 1949, p300-305, il, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Gourds

Record #:

9918

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

In an effort to drum up publicity for their yearly gourd festival, the Cary Gourd Club is focusing attention on the display of the Mary Slocumb gourd at the Museum of History in Raleigh. The story of the gourd, which was allegedly used by Mrs. Slocumb as she ministered to the wounded soldiers at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge during the Revolutionary War, has been recorded in John H. Wheeler's HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF NORTH CAROLINA and Mrs. Eddie W. Wilson's THE GOURD IN FOLK LITERATURE.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 6, Aug 1972, p16, il

Subject(s):

Moores Creek Bridge, Battle of, N.C., 1776; Gourds; Slocumb, Mary, d. 1836

Record #:

14444

Author(s):

Wilson, Eddie W.

Abstract:

The story of the gourd dates back to Indians who were here when the first Europeans arrived. Since that time, the gourd has been used in a variety of ways and is still being cultivated extensively.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 15 Issue 29, Dec 1947, p6-7, f

Subject(s):

Gourds

Record #:

9911

Author(s):

Chapman, Ashton

Abstract:

Sonya Hagna, founder and owner of the highly successful Dilly Bean business, has started a new company, Tawashi, Inc., that manufactures and sells wash cloths made from the spongy fibers of the Hischima plant, a gourd very similar to the Luffa cylindrical. Hagna, a High Point native, has received extensive national coverage as a female entrepreneur in national magazines such as TIME and PAGEANT.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 4, July 1972, p15-16, il, por

Subject(s):

Businesswomen; Gourds; Tawashi, Inc.