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16446
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The ubiquitous and innumerable weekly newspapers of the antebellum South are, as often as not, rich storehouses of folk humor, much of it original material acquired from oral sources and set down by editors and correspondents. Such a humorous niche was filled by Jemmy Critus for the CHARLOTTE JOURNAL.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 18 Issue 2, May 1970,
p95-100
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20884
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This is an annotated reprint of journal entries penned by historian and Unitarian minister Jared Sparks during his time in North Carolina. There are entries from a trip to the state in 1819, and from another in 1826 giving an account of his activities and observations of cities.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 40 Issue 3, July 1963,
p285-294, f
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21904
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This article provides additional information to the article 'American Vernacular Furniture and the North Carolina Backcountry,' which appeared in the November 1994 issue of the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts. After the original article's publication, several additional pieces of furniture relating to the original set of furniture discussed.
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Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
(NoCar N 6520 .J67), Vol. 21 Issue 1, Summer 1995,
p89-93, il
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16295
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Once upon a time, the NORTH CAROLINA FOLKLORE JOURNAL was published by a coterie of editors at North Carolina State University. Leonidas Betts manned the editorship with a special touch developed through an intimate knowledge of North Carolina rural life learned as a boy and deepened by his folklore scholarship.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 35 Issue 2, Summer-Fall 1988,
p101-102
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32020
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This is an article that appeared in the New Bern Daily Journal, May 1, 1891. The names mentioned are: Shadrach Allen, Mrs. William B. Wadsworth, James A. Hanrahan, Mrs. Speight, Mrs. Maggie Nelson, Mrs. James A. Bryan, F. X. Martin, C. C. Clark, Mrs. Susan J. Stanly, James G. Stanly.
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5149
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William Campbell Dickison died November 22,1999, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dickison, an internationally known plant morphologist and plant anatomist, joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Biology Department in 1969. He was also a former editor of the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society from 1975 to 1981.
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Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society
(NoCar Q 11 .J68x), Vol. 117 Issue 2, Summer 2001,
p90-93, por, bibl
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28620
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Mary Ann Buie (Miss Buie) was a writer known for her controversial articles published in the Wilmington Daily Journal from 1861-1865. Early in the Civil War, Miss Buie left journalism to specialize in solicitations for the welfare of the soldiers. It was her dedication to this cause that made her a celebrity.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 18 Issue 1, Oct 1974,
p1-4, il, f
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42849
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Located along U.S. 264 in Hyde County, Engelhard boasts some interesting architecture including the eight-sided Octagon House built by Dr. William T. Sparrow in 1855. R.S. Spencer Jr. is owner of Do It Best Hardware Store, longtime Hyde County historian and editor of Hyde County's Historical and Genealogical Society's journal, High Tides.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 12 Issue 4, July 2020,
p50-52
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28030
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George Attmore Sparrow, oldest son of Thomas Sparrow III and Ann Maria Blackwell, was born in Beaufort, North Carolina in 1845 and became a minister in the late 1880s. George’s family has a long history of prominence in eastern North Carolina. Personal letters George wrote to his father are presented in this journal issue.
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40325
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Companion journal for the North Carolina Historical Review, NCLR embraces North Carolina’s diversity and plays an important role on East Carolina University’s campus. It features renowned writers such as Clyde Edgerton as well as unknown writers, is implemented as a teaching tool in literature courses, and trains student employees about the intricacies of publication.
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East: the Magazine of East Carolina University
(NoCar LD 1741 E44 A172), Vol. 15 Issue 1, Fall 2016 ,
p28-31
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Sparrow, W. Keats, 1932-2009; Faulkner, Janice Hardison, 1932-2019; Edgerton, Clyde, 1944-; McCorkle, Jill, 1958-; Chappell, Fred, 1936-; Smith, Lee, 1944-; NORTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL REVIEW (journal); NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY REVIEW (journal); East Carolina University--Department of English; Writers, North Carolina; Authors, North Carolina
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42884
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Chris Douglas, 48 of Sanford is host of the new television program, "Carolina ALL Out" (carolinaallout.com) which features hunting and fishing across North Carolina. The program carries on the tradition of "The Southern Sportsman" hosted by the late Franc White and later Joe Albea's "Carolina Outdoor Journal" on UNC-TV, which has recently ceased production.
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7250
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Author Sarah Dessen talks about how her interest in writing developed and her published work. At age thirty she has written four novels and teaches undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her books, which deal with young adults, have won best book awards from the American Library Association and the School Library Journal.
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Betts graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1855. He converted to Methodism while there and was later licensed to preach. During the Civil War he served four years as chaplain of the 30th N.C. Regiment and kept a journal. After the war, he published it as EXPERIENCES OF A CONFEDERATE CHAPLAIN.
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17743
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The author disputes Martin Rozear's claim that the first established hospital was in Portsmouth 1846-1847, an article that appeared in the previous issue of this journal. Watson pulls from fragmentary evidence to argue the first designed hospital was privately funded and built in Wilmington during the mid-1830s. This facility closed sometime in the late 1830s.
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27273
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Life Lines is an audio journal for death row inmates created by Duke University Divinity School graduates Chris Agoranos and Lars Akerson. The idea is to give inmates an opportunity to restore a sense of humanity and give those outside the prison a chance to look within, and perhaps, contribute to the national debate over the death penalty.
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