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16990
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Using archival research, map analysis, and field study, Burke attempts to determine the route used by the stagecoach line of the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road, to locate modern roads that closely approximate the state route, and compare the present landscape along the route with descriptions of that provided in historic documents.
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13180
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Good Morning, Miss Dove, a novel by Frances Gray Patton, a Durham, North Carolina native, has been produced into a movie by Cinemascope and Technicolor starring Jennifer Jones. The best-selling novel, which began as a short story printed in Ladies Home Journal, tells the story of a geography teacher trying to make better citizens of her students. The novel has been awarded with the Christopher Literary Award and the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for excellence in fiction by a North Carolina writer. Patton has written a series of short stories, plays, and articles regularly seen in Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Collier's, and the New Yorker.
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4778
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The winter/spring issue of the North Carolina Folklore Journal contains folklore and historical materials dealing with aspects of the documentary film \"The Ballad of Frankie Silver.\" Frankie Silver was executed on July 12, 1833, and is the only woman ever hanged in Burke County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 47 Issue 1, Wntr/Spr 2000,
p1-76, il
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13753
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Taken from the Monroe Journal (no citation), no military unit left a better record than the 26th North Carolina regiment, which at Gettysburg lost more men in actual numbers and in percentage of those engaged, than any other regiment in the both of the armies.
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28294
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Janet Schaw (ca. 1731- ca. 1801) was a Scottish traveler who kept a detailed journal concerning her travel to America in 1774. This article boasts excerpts from her writings concerning her observations of the region around the Cape Fear and colonists’ attitudes toward revolution.
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36528
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The author talks of learning to read old writing when the writer writes his words as they sound. Reading historical records can be much like breaking a code. An example of entries from a 1795 journal from western North Carolina is given to translate.
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12640
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Many times since The State was created in 1933, North Carolinians have wondered why anyone would start a publication of this kind. Carl Goerch relates the early idea for the journal with W. O. Saunders, editor of the Independent, and the struggles to create a successful magazine.
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15211
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Dr. Clarence Poe had a distinguished educational career and for the past 40 years has had a distinguished editorship of The Progressive Farmer, an influential journal. He is also on the board of trustees of Wake Forest College and chairman of the executive committee of State College.
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16357
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This listing is a supplement to Professor Clark's Madstones in North Carolina (presented in North Carolina Folklore Journal March 1976, Vol. 24:1), an exhaustive study of the curious natural stones and stone-like products of the stomachs and gall bladders of animals used in folk medicine.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 1, May 1977,
p33-35
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27856
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Frank Horton established the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts in 1975 to disseminate research and collections by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This issue is a biography of Frank, his accomplishments, and contributions to the decorative arts.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 27 Issue 1, Summer 2001,
p1-151, il, por, bibl, f
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34691
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The North Carolina Literary Review, started in 1991, has won several awards for design, writing, and overall quality. The different aspects of the journal-artwork, fiction pieces, and non-fiction articles- all combine to make a visually appealing spread that focuses on North Carolina artists and writers.
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North Carolina Literary Review
(NoCar PS 266 N8 N66x), Vol. 26 Issue , 2017,
p90-104, il, por, f
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39805
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A community newspaper has been contributing to Bladen County news since 1898. Noteworthy news and accomplishments for The Bladen Journal include Jessie Lee Sugg McCulloch, among the first female editors in the state, and coverage of the Beast of Bladenboro, a mystery that spurred an annual festival.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 36 Issue 12, December 2016,
p88
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THE BLADEN JOURNAL (newspaper); THE BLADEN EXPRESS (newspaper); Newspapers--Ownership; Newspapers--Elizabethtown; McCulloch, Jessie Lee Sugg; Female editors--North Carolina newspapers--Jessie Lee Sugg McCulloch; Legends--Bladen County--Beast of Bladenboro; Newspapers--North Carolina, Eastern; North Carolina Press Association; Community newspapers
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10638
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William Byrd, the first author/explorer of the Great Dismal Swamp, was appointed by the royal governor of Virginia to a bi-state commission charged with surveying the North Carolina border. The survey began on March 5, 1728 and reached the Great Dismal on March 14. Byrd kept two journals, one for an official account and the other for his personal insights. The official journal was published 1841 and the personal journal was published in 1929. In both accounts, Byrd insisted that there was no wildlife in the swamp. Of the numerous explorers who ventured into the Great Dismal in Byrd's wake, including future president George Washington, not one mentioned the absence of wildlife.
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Lewis Bond moved his family to Tarboro NC around 1820. Lewis was a cabinet maker and operated his business in a tavern on the corner of Main and Pitt Streets in Tarboro. He and his wife, Siddie Nelson, parented six children. Lewis was a member of the Masonic brotherhood. His wife passed away in 1832 and Lewis passed away in 1858. His son Francis L. Bond also known as Frank took over the family business of cabinet making. Frank kept a journal filled with remedies and town happenings. That journal is now preserved in the Joyner Library Special Collections at East Carolina University. Frank went missing in August of 1890 and his body was recovered in September of 1890.
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Welcome to Tarboro & Homes Magazine
(F 264 T3 W4), Vol. Issue , October 2022,
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11219
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Since 1960, J. Marse Grant has served as editor of the BIBLICAL RECORDER, the official journal of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. He is a longtime leader in the fight against liquor by the drink in the state. He discusses why voters should defeat the issue.
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