Record #:

35908

Author(s):

Wise, Jim

Abstract:

Mentioned was Smoke to Gold, a book produced by a local junior historic club, the Skewarkians. Getting the spotlight, though, was their second literary endeavor, Weird Tales. Many of the tales told were the byproduct of club members interviewing residents of Martin County, living in towns like Bear Grass. Helping the book to live up to its name and claim were ghost stories, local superstitions, and folk medicine.

Source:

Tar Heel (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 8 Issue 8, Oct 1980, p16

Subject(s):

Ghosts; Folk medicine; Superstition; Storytellers; Tobacco farms; Skewarkians; Bear Grass, NC

Record #:

36374

Author(s):

Abstract:

The Skewarkians, Bear Grass School, Williamston, NC constructed a model of an ‘Old Time Tobacco Barn,’ and wrote and published a book, ‘Smoke to Gold.’ They received the Group Arts Honorable Mention Award during the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Awards Day program of the Tar Hill Junior Historian Association.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. Vol. 18 Issue No. 1, , p27, il

Subject(s):

Tobacco barns--Restoration and renovation; Martin County--Industry and agriculture; Bear Grass, NC