Record #:

8365

Author(s):

Carpenter, W.L.

Abstract:

In 1940, two government agencies, the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Federal-State Agricultural Extension Service, organized the Federal-State mattress-making program. This program allocated 4,600 bales of cotton from North Carolina warehouses to assist low-income farming families. Families applied for the program, and, if they were accepted, they paid a small fee for needles and thread and were then shown how to sew up to three mattresses per family. For most of the families, it was the first mattress they had ever owned. When the program ended two years later, over 220,000 mattresses had been made.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 11, Apr 1984, p22, por

Subject(s):

Rural families--Economic conditions--20th century

Record #:

9580

Author(s):

Rogers, Katherine G.

Abstract:

Catharine Parker ran her family's farm in eastern North Carolina during the Civil War. When Union forces arrived in 1865, foragers scoured the countryside for food for soldiers and seized the Parker farm food stores. With minimal food, Catherine Parker was forced to seek help from the officer who ran the Union commissary. Rogers describes how she acquired food for her family.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 11, Apr 1984, p8-9, 38

Subject(s):

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

Record #:

9581

Author(s):

Harper, Dave C.

Abstract:

The boundary between North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia was disputed in the early 1800s. While South Carolina and Georgia settled their boundary along the Tugaloo River in 1802, North Carolina and Georgia did not settle their boundary until 1807. Both sides claimed rights to an area called Walton County, and for five years the area became a lawless no-man's land where no state had the power to enforce laws. Both states sent representatives to a meeting in 1807, where the current boundaries were established. North Carolina successfully claimed the Walton County region.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 11, Apr 1984, p10-12, il, map

Subject(s):

North Carolina--Boundaries--Georgia; North Carolina--Boundaries--South Carolina

Record #:

9582

Author(s):

Westveer, Brian

Abstract:

Harvey Littleton is the Father of American Art Glass. Since his father was a physicist at Corning Glass Works, Littleton was introduced to the glass world at an early age. He studied at the University of Michigan and at the Brighton School of Art in England. He pioneered the use of glass as an art form, and his experiments made it possible to move glassmaking from the factory to the individual artist's studio. By the 1960s, glass art became a popular art form in the United States. Littleton and his wife moved to North Carolina in 1976 to be closer to the Penland School of Crafts.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 51 Issue 11, Apr 1984, p15-19, il, por

Subject(s):

Art glass; Littleton, Harvey K., 1922-