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for "North Carolina Literary Review"
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20238
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Following the American Revolution, defeated Loyalists fled to the remote corner of Abaco in The Bahamas. Since then, the descendants of those Loyalists have maintained a population that is racially, culturally, and politically distinct from the other twenty-nine populated islands that make up The Bahamas. The Abaco population more closely resembles isolated communities on Ocracoke and Harkers Island, where the population still speaks with a brogue, resembling the tongue spoken by the earliest Scot-Irish settlers.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 7, 1998,
p82-95, por
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21072
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Ethel Thomas was a North Carolina author who wrote under the pen name, 'Aunt Becky,' and published in the Charlotte area during the first half of the 19th century. Thomas wrote fictional accounts about the Southern textile industry which was a large economic cog of the Charlotte area. Publisher David Clark, owner of the Southern Textile Bulletin, reprinted several of Thomas' novels in his magazine as well as put 'Aunt Becky' in a weekly column where she served up folksy success stories, advice, news, descriptions of Southern mill towns she had visited.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 5, 1996,
p154-167, por
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21073
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Publisher David Clark was an unofficial spokesman for the textile industry during much of his life. An American success story, Clark began working in the textile industry as a sweeper before gaining multiple engineering degrees which he applied to the running of textile mills. Clark was also an organizer of the Southern Textile Association and owner of the Southern Textile Bulletin, a weekly magazine that went out to thousands of textile workers throughout the South.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 5, 1996,
p160-161, por
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21074
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In these excerpts from early 20th century columnist Ethel Thomas, also known under her pen name 'Aunt Becky,' she dispenses advice on a variety of topics to textile workers from around the South. These topics include her views on beauty, cursing, uniforms, and conspicuous absence.
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21075
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In this speech conducted during the Carders' Meeting in Anderson, South Carolina on April 16, 1931, Southern columnist Ethel Thomas, under her pen name Aunt Becky, answers a variety of questions from participants of the meeting. She also described in colorful detail her trip to Anderson and the lack of interest people have shown in the Textile Association.
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21076
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Broadsides were a cheap and easy way to circulate songs and poetry amongst large groups of people during and after the American Civil War. This was the case of the broadside ballad, Shelling of Fort Anderson, March 14th, 1863 by Dr. Sutherland, a 46-year-old physician and private in the 92nd New York Volunteer Regiment which occupied Fort Anderson in New Bern, North Carolina. The ballad poetically describes the assault on the fort by Confederate besiegers and the Union defense. The broadside also provides a unique perspective on a well-known military action during the Civil War.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 5, 1996,
p178-188, por, map
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21077
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When Black Mountain College closed down in 1957, its library collection was sold to the newly opened North Carolina Wesleyan College and is currently the centerpiece of Wesleyan's Black Mountain College collection. The correspondence between the Charles Olson, Black Mountain's last rector and Jasper Smith, Wesleyan's first business manager details the negotiations that took place to put the collection in Wesleyan's hands. The collection at North Carolina Wesleyan contains over 5,000 books and was not fully curated until the mid-1970s.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. Issue 5, 1996,
p194-197, map
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21112
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Pulitzer prize-winner Paul Green is best known for his nearly 100 plays for stage and screen, most notably The Lost Colony about the lost English colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. While not what he is mostly known for, Green was also a documentarian who collected mounds of data on the life history of the people of the Cape Fear Valley and documented language usage as early as World War I. Green's estate posthumously published Paul Green's Wordbook, a two-volume, 1,245 page tome which included decades of his research on the Cape Fear Valley.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p47-55, por
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21113
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Playwright Paul Green is well known in North Carolina as the writer of the play, The Lost Colony, which portrays the story of the lost English colony on Roanoke Island. Born in rural Harnett County in 1894, Green pushed for a more progressive North Carolina, especially with regards to the civil rights of African-Americans. In addition to his liberal reputation, Green also served in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I as a mining engineer during the height of trench warfare.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p22-46, il, por, map
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21115
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Author Margaret Maron, early short story writer, has achieved her greatest success as an author of 10 novels including two mystery series: the Sigrid Harald novels and the Deborah Knott series. In this interview with NCLR, Maron discusses her writing career including how it began, where it has gone, where it is going to go, and how it connects to North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p61-68, por
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21116
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The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot, a low point in African-Americans' treatment after the Civil War, is generally recognized as the onset of the Jim Crow era in North Carolina. This narrative conveys the events leading up to, during, and after the riots.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p70-82, il
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21117
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Thomas Dixon Jr.'s first fictional work, The Leopard's Spots, spins the tale of white manhood lost and regained in post-Civil War North Carolina. While portrayed as a truthful account of Reconstruction with Dixon as the ideal Southern gentleman, The Leopard's Spots more often than not twists the reality southern life to create villains out of African-Americans and noble heroes out of white Southerners.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p87-101, il, por
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21118
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Walter Hines Page is a well-known North Carolinian who served as ambassador to Great Britain during World War I. Previously, Page was a publisher and editor who was concerned about education and social reform in the South.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p102-107, por
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21119
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Charles Chesnutt's second novel, The Marrow of Tradition, published in 1901, is a fictional account of the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot. Chesnutt hoped that through his writing, he could enlighten other Americans, especially non-Southerners, to the problem of race plaguing America.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p108-118
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Record #:
21120
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In this interview writer and 1993 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner Charles Wright reflects upon his childhood in North Carolina and how it has affected his writing.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p173-187, por
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