Record #:

2801

Author(s):

Jordan, Catherine

Abstract:

Visitors to Hope Plantation and the King-Basemore House in Bertie County experience rural life in the northeastern part of the state as it was lived in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 56 Issue 1, June 1988, p12-14, il

Subject(s):

Hope Plantation (Windsor)

Record #:

2812

Author(s):

Lindsay, Cason

Abstract:

The paintings of Michael McKinley Rogers of Macon County portray a lifestyle that some feel is disappearing forever -- the rural ways of the people of Western North Carolina.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 56 Issue 1, June 1988, p20-21, il

Subject(s):

Rogers, Michael McKinley; Painters--Macon County

Record #:

2813

Author(s):

Allen, Joseph Baneth

Abstract:

John Montgomery of Raleigh is one of a handful of American craftsmen who practice the European art of violin making. A much-in-demand artisan, he creates four violins a year and repairs countless others.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 56 Issue 1, June 1988, p24-25, por

Subject(s):

Montgomery, John; Violin makers--Raleigh

Record #:

2814

Author(s):

Stewart, Alva

Abstract:

The 200 year-old Davie Poplar, named for William R. Davie, is possibly the oldest tulip poplar in the nation and a link for generations of students and faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 56 Issue 1, June 1988, p26-28, il

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Liriodendron tulipifera; Historic trees--Chapel Hill; Davie, William Richardson, 1756-1820