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for "North Carolina Literary Review"
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21121
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The small village of Eden Mills in Canada is home to the Eden Mills Writers' Festival and to Chapel Hill natives, Connie and Leon Rooke, who started the festival in 1989. The Rookes founded the festival as a means to give established and burgeoning artists a forum to spread their art.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p211-212, il, map
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21122
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Since its creation in 1991, the North Carolina Playwrights Festival has had an overarching goal of connecting playwrights and their plays with theaters or directors with the means to find venues and actors. The festival took place in Southern Pines and provided an outlet for over 20 plays to local and regional distributors. The schedule of the festival also included formal readings, breakfast seminars, casting, rehearsals, performances, and workshops.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p217-218, il, map
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21124
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Black Mountain College was founded by several recently fired professors in 1933 during the Great Depression in a region that did not clamor for a liberal arts college and did not have the economy to support it.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p32-44, il, map
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21125
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As a Japanese-American from Hawaii, I.S. Nakata was far away from home when he first attended Black Mountain College in 1940. His first experiences with Jim Crow, university studies, and with the continental United States all took place at the college. These experiences were cut short by the United States' entry into World War II, when Nakata was drafted into the Army Air Corp. After being honorably discharged in 1942, he returned to Black Mountain College to finish his studies and married fellow student Alexa McLane.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p45-54, por
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21126
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In this interview with writer and Black Mountain College alum Fielding Dawson, the interviewer meant to only discuss Dawson's recently released The Black Mountain Book. The interview quickly become one not so much about the book, but about Black Mountain College itself and the time that Fielding spent there.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p112-122, por
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21127
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The unique maritime culture of North Carolina has been an inspiration for naturalists, folklorists, historians, poets and novelists for centuries as they have been drawn to the coasts. A strong North Carolina fishing culture initially drew many people, however, pollution, over-development, and poor fishery management, the culture is in decline. Writers and historians continue to record and preserve this culture in their respective works.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p183-199, il
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21128
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North Carolinian Harrell Paden began visiting secluded Holden Beach near Wilmington when he was four-years-old in 1928. When he returned in 1985 after an absence of several years, he was shocked to find that there was no longer a public access route to the beach. Private housing communities have developed and cut off public access to several local beaches, while still using public funds and utilities.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p188, il
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21129
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James Salter was born in 1888 near Oyster Head, North Carolina to a local farming family. Raised in a multi-generational home with his grandmother, Salter vividly recalls the workings of the farm under the supervision of his grandmother.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 2, 1994,
p190-191
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21130
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In this tribute to writer Randall Jarrell, North Carolina literary legend Fred Chappell provides background information and relates his first experience meeting Jarrell. Chappell discusses Jarrell's work and how it has affected the North Carolina's literary scene.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1992,
p8-16, por
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21131
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In May 1931, a small magazine called Contempo was first published in Chapel Hill. Contempo, published until February 1934, and focused on the contemporary world of literature. It published eight Nobel Prize winners along with numerous American and European literary icons. The magazine is well remembered for its young founder Milton Avant Abernethy and his literary encounters with writer William Faulkner.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1992,
p17-29
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21132
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Poet A.R. Ammons discusses growing up on a farm in rural North Carolina and how that affected his writing.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1992,
p46-57, por
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21133
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The tale of English explorer John Lawson and his relationship with the Tuscarora Indian tribe of North Carolina is one of tragedy and violence. What began with mutual respect and friendship between the two ended with Lawson's gruesome death at the hand of the Tuscarora in 1711. Lawson's journey through the New World, particularly what is now North Carolina, provided an insight into many Indian tribes and their culture. Lawson's death helped spark the Tuscarora War, a conflict that between Indian and colonist that ended with the almost extinction of the Tuscarora as a people.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1992,
p62-82, il, map
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21134
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The Tuscarora War was an armed conflict between English colonists and the Tuscarora Indian tribe that ended with the near extinction of the Tuscarora. Angered by colonial encroachment on their land and broken promises, the Tuscarora launched surprise attacks on North Carolina colonists. A combined North Carolina and South Carolina militia fought back against the Tuscarora and destroyed most of its people and villages.
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21135
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Neoheroka Fort was the location of the last Tuscarora stronghold during the Tuscarora War and site of the last major battle. Never reoccupied after it was razed by colonial forces, it is now a time capsule of Tuscarora culture during the final moments of its existence.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1992,
p102-103, map
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21141
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In this retrospective, author Linda Flowers examines her childhood growing up in a tenant farmer's family. Through her analysis, Flowers documents the trials and tribulations that her family encountered in eastern North Carolina.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, 1992,
p178-181, por
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