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26395
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Bland Simpson is the author of a new book called Sound Country: A Carolinian’s Coastal Plain. Sound Country is the North Carolina region encompassing the five major and ten minor sounds. Bland offers his observations of how ecosystems in the coastal region have changed.
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32204
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An excerpt from North Carolina author Bland Simpson’s “Two Captains from Carolina” highlights a pivotal moment for Moses Grandy, an accomplished African American mariner born in the antebellum South. Simpson describes how he brought to life the stories of two disparate captains and what their narratives mean to him.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue 1, Winter 2018,
p12-17, il, por, map
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36357
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Reprinted from NCFJ 42.2
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 50 Issue 1-2, Fall-Winter 2003,
p9-11
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37642
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Clay was the stuff potsherds were made of, evidence for the lifeways of North Carolina inhabitants over the centuries. Places the author celebrated and commemorated included Fort Neoheroka, Town Creek, Soco Creek, and Seagrove.
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38298
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Called sound country by the author, North Carolina attained this status by having more sounds than any other state in the east. Its importance may be better defined, however, by the role that sounds like Currituck have played in defining a way of life for Eastern North Carolinians and the region’s seafood industry for centuries.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 79 Issue 4, Sept 2011,
p96-98, 100, 102-104, 106, 108, 110, 112, 114
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39439
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Barbara Garrity-Blake is the co-leader of the Down East Cajun and acoustic-roots band the Unknown Tongues and founder of the annual folk-feast at the Gloucester Mardi Gras.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 60 Issue 1 and 2, Fall/Summer 2013,
p21-23
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40411
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The author illustrates the impact that North Carolina islands such as Pea, Portsmouth, Bear, and Bird have made in the lives and folkways of locals and tourists of this state.
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North Carolina--Outer Banks--Islands ; Bodie Island--Islands--North Carolina ; Pea Island; Hatteras Island; Ocracoke Island--History; Portsmouth Island--Description and travel; Core Banks; Bogue Banks--History; Bear Island--History; Bald Head Island; Oak Island; Ocean Isle Beach--History; Bird Island (Brunswick County); Ferries--North Carolina ; Topsail Inlet--History; Roanoke Island; Lockwood's Folly (Brunswick County); Holden Beach (Brunswick County)
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43171
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"In a pair of rustic cottages on two remote strips of North Carolina shoreline, one family left time and responsibilities beind to watch waves crash on barren beaches and stars dance in the coal black sky." The author of this sketch serves as Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill.
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44343
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"She had torn the south-facing beaches of Brunswick County all to hell and gone, wrecking the crab-and-fish houses and putting great schooners up into yards in Southport, and thrown fishing boats onto main streets in Morehead City and Beaufort."
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