Record #:

8373

Author(s):

Lea, Diane

Abstract:

Midway Plantation in Knightdale was built on a 1739 land grant from Lord Granville, and the property has remained in the Silver family for seven generations. The plantation house sat on what was the old Tarborough Road, which has become a major highway in 2005. Highway I-540 is encroaching nearby. To save their 4,000-square-foot home, the family moved the house and its five outbuildings to a new location. Lea discusses the relocation process.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 7 Issue 12, Dec 2006, p28-34, 36, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Midway Plantation (Knightdale); Historic buildings--Knightdale; Plantations--Knightdale

Record #:

8374

Author(s):

Leutz, Jim

Abstract:

Luetze discusses the decline in fish stocks worldwide. Almost a third of the fish stocks, as revealed in a four-year study of catch records, were 90 percent below the maximum historical catch level. Predictions are that by the mid-2000s the stocks will be practically nonexistent, affecting two hundred million people who fish for a living and one billion people who depend on fish as their primary food. He discusses the importance of renewing the Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976, which established fishery councils to manage resources and fishing activities in the federal two-hundred-mile limit off the national coastline. Only in North Carolina's Southeastern Atlantic region has there been any progress is protecting and rebuilding fish stocks.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 7 Issue 12, Dec 2006, p96, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Fisheries--Laws and legislation; Fish stock assessment

Record #:

8375

Author(s):

Taylor, Art

Abstract:

Author and illustrator Pamela Pease owns Chapel Hill's Paintbox Press. Prior to this she had a twenty-year career in the fashion industry in Los Angles. Her master's program project at Syracuse University was a pop-up book. Leaving the fashion industry and coming to Chapel Hill provided her with the opportunity to pursue this type of book. Taylor discusses the books Pease has published and the creative process the author follows in developing them. It usually takes Pease two years to create a book.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 7 Issue 12, Dec 2006, p105-107, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Illustrators--Chapel Hill; Authors--Chapel Hill; Toy and movable books--Chapel Hill

Record #:

16711

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

The Civil War cannon made in 1862 from the bell of the oldest public building in North Carolina has returned home 141 years after its surrender to Edenton's Colonial Park in Edenton Bay.

Source:

Metro Magazine (NoCar F 264 R1 M48), Vol. 7 Issue 12, Dec 2006, p22, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865