Record #:

15406

Author(s):

Dean, G.E.

Abstract:

Carrying comedy, romance, and high adventure to river town in five states is the unique business of the James Adams Floating Theatre of Elizabeth City now the only show boat east of the Mississippi River. The playhouse is now on its 23rd annual tour of the inland waters along the Atlantic seaboard between Wilmington, North Carolina and Wilmington, Delaware.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 8, July 1936, p5, 22, f

Subject(s):

James Adams Floating Theater; Floating theaters

Record #:

15980

Author(s):

Van Dusen, Dana

Abstract:

Plans to exhume the remains of Peter Stuart Ney, said to be Napoleon's famous Marshal Ney, who was buried in Rowan County in 1846, were reported in an earlier article in The State. The legend of Marshal Ney was that he was not executed in France in 1815, but escaped to the United States where he taught school in Rowan County, North Carolina. Dusen presents arguments that refute this idea.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 8, July 1936, p9, 22

Subject(s):

Ney, Michael, duc d'Elchingen, prince de la Moskowa, 1769-1815; Legends--Rowan County

Record #:

15985

Author(s):

Thomas, Theresa Meroney

Abstract:

J. Rowan Davis of Salisbury was the youngest person to serve in North Carolina's Civil War regiments. At the age of twelve years, he was a core maker in a Confederate arsenal; at fourteen he was a member of Johnston's Field Artillery; and at sixteen in 1865, he was a prisoner of war at Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio. He is 87 years old.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 8, July 1936, p13, 22, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Soldiers; Davis, J. Rowan, 1849-1944

Record #:

15986

Author(s):

Dare, Carol

Abstract:

Garl Browne, a famous portrait painter, came with his family from England to America in the 1830s. Dare relates information on the time he spent painting portraits in North Carolina before the Civil War and on a return trip made in the 1880s.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 8, July 1936, p20-21

Subject(s):

Painters; Browne, William Garl Jr., 1822-1894

Record #:

16628

Author(s):

Iden, Susan

Abstract:

Wayah Bald, rising to 5,400 feet near Franklin in Macon County, is not so well-known as some of the state's other mountains, like Grandfather and Mt. Mitchell; however, it is wild, beautiful, and remote. Iden describes a trip to the top of the mountain.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 4 Issue 8, July 1936, p7, il

Subject(s):

Mountains--Macon County; Wayah Bald--Description and travel