Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
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28614
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An excerpt from the Wilmington Journal gave an extensive description of the fires that destroyed Front Street Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886 and Grace Methodist Church in 1947. Despite the destruction, most of the records stored in the churches were preserved. The records include documents of the founding of the church, mission records, membership lists, birth and death records.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 16 Issue 1, Oct 1972,
p1-6, il, f
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30777
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Although there has been some fall off in tax collections as compared to estimates, a recent study by the Wall Street Journal shows that North Carolina is in no worse condition that many others states. A growing number of states that levy consumption taxes as a source of state operating revenue are falling into the red as spending outweighs recession-eroded revenues.
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35797
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Harry Golden’s twenty first novel was about to be published. The lesser known of his literary endeavors was a journal, initially a private publication but turning public after the end of WWII. Before its demise in 1968, The Carolina Israelite had gained an international audience, offering him a taste of popularity before his bestselling author career was launched with Only in America.
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21731
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This article examines the life of David Clark, editor of the 'Southern Textile Bulletin,' a trade journal for textile workers. Clark was born in Raleigh in 1877 and attended North Carolina State College and Cornell University where he received degrees in engineering. The article spends particular time on Clark's role in defending racism in the South and his efforts to protect the interests of the textile industry.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 89 Issue 1, January 2012,
p59-91 , il, por, f
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22058
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This article describes a 1775 scheme to acquire, settle, and hold a large piece of land, called \"Transylvania County,\" lying between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers, in what is now Tennessee and Kentucky. Details include Boonesborough's establishment by a group of men led by North Carolina Judge Richard Henderson and frontiersman Daniel Boone. A reprint of Henderson's journal documenting his journey into this territory is included.
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28027
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St. Luke’s Hospital was owned and operated by two young physicians, R. Duval Jones and Joseph F. Patterson, in New Bern, North Carolina during the early twentieth century. The owners described their facility as one of the most modern hospitals in the South. The complete St. Luke’s brochure is reproduced in this journal issue, offering details of the hospital’s design, construction, equipment, operations, and staff.
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Journal of the New Bern Historical Society
(NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 13 Issue 2, Nov 2000,
p12-32, il
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28091
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Cary’s new mayor, Harold Weinbrecht, was elected by citizens who were tired of politicians who were not transparent and who felt that the development in Cary was getting out of control. Weinbrecht has promised “balanced growth” and is informing citizens of his work through an online journal. At the first town council meeting Weinbrecht introduced three communication initiatives and a proposed fee increase charged to developers.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 25 Issue 3, January 2008,
p5
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5803
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The North Carolina Folklore Society instituted a new award in 2001, the Thomas McGowan Award, given to a society member for outstanding service to the Society. Appropriately, the first recipient was Tom McGowan. Among his many contributions to the society are editing the North Carolina Folklore Journal for twenty-two years, founding and editing for twenty-two years the society's newsletter, and along with Karen Baldwin, instituting the Community Traditions Award.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2002,
p66-68, il
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20813
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Journalist Eugene Clyde Brooks, one of the architects of the mid 20th century school system in North Carolina, was an active force for educational progress in the state for more than three decades. This article details the development and evolution of his career, as well as the establishment of the North Carolina Journal of Education. Information on educational initiatives and legislation proposed or passed during this period is included.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 36 Issue 3, July 1959,
p307-329, f
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40990
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These have Craven County school children, 1841; Early New Bern newspapers; List of letters in the New Bern Post Office, 1828; Suit about Capt. William Randall’s horse captured by the British, 1781; NC Senate Journal 1789; Estate of Nathan Smith, 1823; Hardy Bryan Croom family died when the Steamboat Home blew up off Cape Hatteras, 1837; Dr. Wrenn’s house attacked after local polls of election closed, 1790; William Clark’s Will, 1796.
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36829
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36323
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Fascinated with music as a child, David Harrell made a barn to provide a hospitable meeting place where musicians can maintain and add to their musical skill, as well as act as a social gathering.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 47 Issue 2, Mid-Winter 2000,
p170-171
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39468
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Hawkeye Indian Cultural Center has provided services vital to preserving, celebrating, and illuminating cultural traditions of the Native Americans of the sandhills in and around Hoke County since 1997. Their mission is to strengthen families, unite people through cultural enrichment, and enhance the self-sufficiency of underserved and distressed communities.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 61.1 Issue 2, Spring and Summer 2014,
p20-23
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8249
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Roy Armstrong II came to Beaufort Community College in 1981 to teach English and to launch an oral history project. Students talked to people whose memories stretched back into an earlier time in coastal North Carolina and transcribed them. The result was a journal called LIFE ON THE PAMLICO. Thirty-eight issues have been published, each containing three or four oral histories illustrated with black-and-white photographs. The oral histories are available on the college website at CircaNCeast.beaufortccc.edu.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 74 Issue 6, Nov 2006,
p136-138, 140, 142, 144, il, por
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35041
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The winner of the 2017 Thomas L. Quay Wildlife Diversity Award, Alvin Braswell, had an impressive career that spanned five decades. As a renowned researcher in the field of Herpetology, Braswell’s professional accomplishments include forty years’ employment with the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, involvement with the creation of the 2003 legislation that banned the capture of more than four turtles without a permit, authoring or c-authoring more than fifty journal publications, and involvement with the creation of the NC Herpetologist Society.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 81 Issue 6, Nov/Dec 2017,
p40-41
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