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This annual list shows historical publications that are available from members of the Federation of N.C. Historical Societies. Though every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this list, please contact the members listed below to confirm prices and availability.
ALLEGHANY HISTORICAL-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is selling History of Alleghany County, NC 1859-1976 for $45, plus $3 shipping and $3.04 tax (for NC residents); Alleghany County Heritage, featuring county, town-ship, and community histories, more than 700 family histories, and photos, for $48 plus $3 shipping and $3.24 tax; Alleghany County Cemeteries through 1986, containing burial data from 300 family, church, and community burial plots, for $15 plus $2.75 shipping and $1.01 tax; Alleghany Architecture: A Pictorial Survey, $30 plus $3 shipping and $2.03 tax; Mary’s Memories, by Mary Lyon Harless, lifelong coun-ty resident who published the book in 2000 on the occasion of her 100th birthday, for $8 plus $1.50 shipping and $.54 tax; Foot Prints on the Sands of Time, by Dr. Aras B. Cox, focusing on the history of southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina, for $15 plus $2 shipping and $1.01 tax; 1938 Video of Sparta, North Carolina, featuring scenes of downtown Sparta, Roaring Gap Fish Hatchery, and the Alleghany County Agricultural Fair and scenes from a trip to the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York, $11 plus $1.50 shipping and $.68 tax; and Recipes that Raised Us, a memorial cookbook featuring
recipes of friends and family who have passed away, with proceeds from the cookbook benefiting the building project of the Alleghany
County Public Library, for $20, plus $3 shipping and $1.35 tax or 3 books for $45 plus $7 shipping plus $3.04 tax. Please note that all taxes listed are for N.C. residents only. To order, visit www.sparta store.com or send a check, payable to Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society, to PO Box 817, Sparta, NC 28675. The society also notes that Alleghany Coun-ty, NC Marriages: 1849-1900, is available for $20.50 plus $5 ship-ping from Heritage Books at (800) 398-7709.
ANSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC., has the following books available: Cemeteries of Anson County, Volume I (with map of county), $50, plus $5 ship-ping; Cemeteries of Anson County Volume II, by A. Haynes Dunlap and others, $40, plus $7 shipping; The History of Anson County, 1750-1976, by Mary Louise Medley, $40, plus $5 ship-ping; Eastview Cemetery, Wadesboro, N.C., $50, plus $5 shipping; Notes on the Movement of the 14th North Carolina Regiment, by Thomas J. Watkins, transcribed from the original with introduction by Jane P. Cunning-ham, $12. Send orders to ACHS, 206 E. Wade St., Wadesboro, N.C. 28170.
Prepared and edited by ASHE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY and each priced at $21.99 are Ashe County (Images of Ameri-ca); Ashe County Revisited (Images of America); and The Virginia Creeper in Ashe County (Images of Rail). Also available are the following out-of-print books: Ashe County, A
History, by Arthur Fletcher (New Edition 2006; hardback) $45; Herit-age of Ashe County, Volume 1 (1984; 575 Pages) $86; Heritage
of Ashe County, Volume 2 (1994; 468 pages) $86; Ashe County Census information transcriptions for years 1830, 1850, 1860 and 1880 are $33.00 each; Ashe County Marriages 1800-1900, $33.00; Ashe County Cemetery Records (Russell Hamilton compilation, 1999) Volume 1 and Volume 2 are $33 each; Wilburn Waters History (biography of a regional hunter and trapper) $20; and History of Ashe County, NC, and New River, VA, Baptist Associations, by J.F. Fletcher (1982 edition, 157 pages) $30. Add $3 shipping and handling for each book, and add sales tax when shipping is to be to a North Caroli-na address. For more information or to place an order, send an email to info@ashehistory.org or visit www.ashehistoricalsociety.org or write to ACHS, Post Office Box 1361, Jefferson, NC 28640.
BEAUFORT HISTORICAL ASSOCIA-TION: Beaufort-by-The-Sea, Journey Back in Time, by Rick and Marcie Carroll, $24.95; Beau-fort, An Album of Memories, by Jack Dudley, $47.95; Beaufort’s Old Burying Ground, by Diane Hardy, Mamre Wilson and Mari-lyn Collins, $19.99; “Kith and Kin” of Eastern Carteret Coun-ty, by Thelma Pake Simpson and Rebecca Willis Sanders, $25.00; Carteret County History and Folklore, by Mary and Grayen Paul, $12.99; History of the Hammock House and Related Trivia, by Maurice Davis, $12.00; North Carolina’s Coastal Car-teret County During the Ameri-can Revolution, edited by Jean Bruyere Kell, as a project of the Carteret County Bicentennial Commission, $25.00; Carteret County During the Civil War, by Jean Kell, $35.00; Carteret County Census of 1790, $3.50; A
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Words/First Presbyterian Church Belmont, by William A. Dixon Jr., $13. For more infor-mation, call (704) 825-4848 or write to Belmont Historical Society, PO BOX 244, Belmont NC, 28012.
THE BLADENBORO HISTORICAL SOCIETY is selling Bladenboro: The First 100 Years, A Pictorial History, by the Bladenboro Historical Museums, $125; My World Is Gone: Memories of Life in a Southern Mill Town, by George G. Suggs, Jr., $40; Sunrise, Sunset: A Memoir: A Walk with God Can Help Achieve Results Beyond the Im-agination, by William M. Davis, $27.95 (hardcover), $18.75 (paperback); Memories: Blood, Sweat and Fears, and a Little Bit More, by Faye M. Hardin, $25; God’s Little Beloved, children’s book by Pamela L. Carroll, $10; Washing the Disci-ples’ Feet, by George G. Suggs, Jr., $12.95; Shady Grove, by George G. Suggs, Jr., $20; Red Headed Angel, by Jane Thompson Pait, $9; and Not Given to Appetite, by Bea Freeman, $5. The society is also selling numbered pencil prints, by Jerry Miller, of the society’s beautiful historic building for $50. To order, contact the society at 818 South Main Street, Bladenboro, NC 28320. In addition to the above books by local authors, the Mother County Genealogy Society, which is part of the Bladenboro Historical Society, sells family genealogy books on many family names in Bladenboro and in Bladen County. These are printed on demand and range in price from $20 up, according to the number of pages. To learn more, contact the genealogy society at the historical society’s address or call (910) 863-4707.
THE CALDWELL COUNTY HERIT-AGE MUSEUM: The following book by Matthew C. Bumgarner is available: My Face to the Enemy, $12 for non-members, $9.60 for members. Also available are Tom Dooley: A Wilkes County Legend, by Karen W. Reynolds, $14.00 for members and non-members;
Collett Leventhorpe: The English Confederate, by J. Timothy Cole and Bradley R. Foley, $35 for non-members, $30.40 for members; the following three books by Michael C. Hardy, Remembering Avery County, $19.99 for non-members, $16 for members, Wars and
Rumor of Wars, by John O. Hawkins, focusing on the role Caldwell County people have played in America’s wars, $24.95 plus $1.69 tax, with shipping costing $4 for the first copy and $2 for each additional copy. The museum is also selling the 30-minute DVD A History of
Caldwell County: From a
Wilderness to a Barn, $14.95 plus $1.15 tax for non-members, $12.25 plus $.95 tax for members. For information, call (828) 758-4004, or e-mail Caldheritmus@aol. com.
CAPE FEAR MUSEUM is selling A Boat for All Seas: The Simmons Sea-Skiff, by Museum Guest Curator David Carnell and Curator Barbara Rowe, $10. The book tells the story of how T. N. Simmons developed and constructed the skiff—a unique vessel indigenous to the Cape Fear region. Availa-ble from CFM, 814 Market Street, Wilmington, N.C., 28401, (910) 798-4350
CAPITAL AREA PRESERVATION, INC.: The Historic Architecture of Wake County, by Kelly A. Lally, a comprehensive look at Wake County’s architectural history;
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Brief History of Beaufort and Carteret County, North Caroli-na, by Mame Wilson, $6; Story of Beaufort, by Mamre Wilson, $19.99; Beaufort, North Carolina, by Mamre Wilson, $24.99; The Bell Family, by Marybelle Delamar, $12; A Salter’s Path, by Bennett Moss, $19.95; and A Researcher’s Journal, Beaufort, NC – The Civil War, by Mamre Wilson, $29.90. Tax and shipping will be added to all items. For more information, contact the Beaufort Historical Association at (800) 575-5483 or by email at beaufort historicsite@earthlink. net.
BELMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY is selling Between Two Rivers, by Ross Yockey, on the Centennial of Belmont NC, time line of Belmont from 1770-1995, history of churches in Belmont, $15; Footprints on the Rough Side of the Mountain, by Oscar Hand & Julia Sykes, focusing on the legacy of blacks in Belmont over the years, $15; The History of Belmont and Gaston County North Carolina, by Robert Lee Stowe, Sr., an early history of Gaston County and Belmont, $10; History of Gaston County, by Minnie Stowe Puett, $25; Memo-ries of Cramerton: A Cotton Mill Town, by Larry O. Nichols, $20; Behalt: Holding Onto North Belmont/A Book about a Mill Village, by Quinton Rhine-hart, $20; Smith Cemetery, by Melanie Campbell Ford, a history of Smith Cemetery on Belwood Dr. in Belmont, $60; Images of America/Gastonia and Gaston County North Carolina, by Piper Peters Aheron, $10; Gaston County North Carolina/A Brief History, by Rita Wehunt Black $10; Gaston Remembers, by Sally Griffin, $12; Lasting Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies, 4610 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4610, (919) 807-7280
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Historic Wake County: An Illustrated History of Raleigh and Wake County, by K. Todd Johnson, $45.43 for CAP members, $53.92 for non-members (includes sales tax). Add $5 for shipping to all orders. For more information, call (919) 833-6404, write CAP, Inc., PO Box 28072, Raleigh, N.C. 27611, or visit www.cappresinc.org.
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SOCIETY: The Heritage of Union County, North Carolina, 1842-1992, Volume I, edited by Virginia Kendrick, is available for $59, including tax and shipping. The 512-page, hardbound volume is printed on acid-free paper and contains 875 family histories. The society is also offering Volume II, a 328-page supplement to the first volume that includes a list of Union County Confederate soldiers with a brief biography. The cost is $62, including tax and shipping. Also available: Sketches of Monroe and Union County, by Stack and Beasley. First published in 1902, this book is indexed and illustrated and contains descriptions of natural resources and business enterprises as well as interesting profiles of the townspeople of that era. Cost: $15.50, including tax and shipping. To order, contact the society at PO Box 397, Monroe, NC 28111.
CARTERET COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Beginnings: The Lawrences of Carteret County, 1760-1920, by Ralph W. Lawrence and John Bridgers, $20; A Postal History of Carteret County, NC, by Charles Pitt, $35; Growing Up Down East and Other True Stories, by Elmo Gaskill, $5.95; Stella: A Riverside Hamlet, $30, by Lib Sawyers, $30; Revolu-tion of Coastal North Carolina, by Jean Day, $9.95; Bogue Banks—A Look Back, by Jack
Dudley, $45; Masons of Carteret County, by William Mason, $15; Turning Back the Tide, by Ruth Barbour, $6; Sailing with Grandpa, by Sonny Williamson, $12.95; South River, by Dollie Carraway, $55; Maritime Reflec-tions, by Sonny Williamson and Stephen Goodwin, $14.50; Post-cards from Morehead City: A Celebration of Life & Heritage, by Nancy Toothman for the Sesqui-centennial, $14.95; History of the Hammock House and Related Trivia, by Maurice Davis, $12.50; The Fulchers of Carteret County, $30; Teaching in a Rural School in Lukens, NC: 1943-1944, by Grace F. Wilson, $9.50. The Carteret County Histor-ical Society also offers the following books focusing on Morehead City: Yesterday and Today, Morehead City Woman’s Club, $20; A Picto-rial Review of Morehead City, Morehead City Woman’s Club, $25; Twelve Historic Homes, Joan Allen, $2 Morehead City, Jack Dudley, $44.95; Rodney Kemp’s Walking Tour of More-head City, $2; Carteret County, Lynn Salsi and Frances Eubanks $18.99; A Little Taste of Heaven, by the Sesquicentennial Committee, $24.95; and Carteret County Cemetery Books: Volume I – Beaufort and East of the Newport River and Volume II – West of the Newport River, $55 each, also on CD for $20 (both volumes). For orders, contact the Museum Store at (252) 247-7533, ext. 1, email historyplace @thehistoryplace.org, or visit www.thehistoryplace.org.
THE CASWELL COUNTY HISTORI-CAL ASSOCIATION has the following books available: When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County, 1777-1977, by Dr. W.S. Powell; Architectural
Inventory of Caswell County: The Built Environment of a Burley and Brightleaf Tobacco Economy, by Ruth Little-Stokes; In the Beginning, The Church-es of Caswell County; Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South, by Vanessa Siddle Walker; The Dan River Book: Odyssey, Epic, Guide, by Forest Altman; and Images of America: Caswell County, $26.70 (includes tax and shipping). For information, call the Richmond-Miles Museum at (336) 694-4965.
CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION is selling: Hart Square: One Man’s Passionate Preservation of North Caroli-na’s Pioneer Heritage, by Robert W. Hart III with Nathan W. Moehlmann, $75 (hardcover). This book features hundreds of color photographs of the 19th-century structures Dr. Robert Hart of Hickory has rescued and restored over the course of forty years. Ten percent of the proceeds bought at the Catawba County Museum of History will benefit the museum, with the rest benefitting the Hart Square Foundation. The historical association is also selling The
Catawbans, Vol. I: Crafters of a North Carolina County, by Gary R. Freeze, (424 pages, hard cover, $35.95); The Catawbans, Vol. II: Pioneers in Progress, by Gary R. Freeze (496-page chronicle, $37.95); Catawba County: An Architectural History, $25; Old Wounds, by Steven Shaffer; Yesterday’s Child by Dorothy Sigmon Holbrook; and A Glow from the Lamp, by Ruth Young Proctor, a memoir about growing up on a farm near the Catawba-Burke County border. Visit
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CHATHAM COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has The Gravesites of Chatham County, North Carolina, an alphabetical compi-lation in two volumes of cemeter-ies and grave markers by Will and Audrey Heiser, $35; Chatham County 1771-1971, edited by Hadley, Horton, and Strowd, $20; The Architectural Heritage of Chatham County, North Caro-lina, by Osborn and Selden-Sturgill, $35. This inventory has a description and photographs of each historic building in the book. The association also offers The Land Beneath the Waters, a 35-minute documentary DVD
describing the history of the New Hope valley now under the waters of Jordan Lake, $10; Historical Buildings of the Central Busi-ness District, Siler City, by Wade Hadley, a 30-page booklet, $8; Siler City, North Carolina 1887-1987, by Wade Hadley,
reprint, 67-pages, $8; The Chat-ham Railroad, by Robert A.
Wiesner, which traces the 16-year history of “the railroad that never was” during the tumultuous years preceding and during the Civil War, $10; 1870 Map of Chatham County by Capt. N. A. Ramsey, a reproduction that shows land-marks plus many family locations, $5; 1874 Map of the Coal Fields of Chatham, by L. W. Jackson, a color reproduction, $3; and
Tales Beyond Fried Rabbit: Chatham’s Historical Heritage: by Fred J. Vatter, $23.95. This book is a compilation of articles, each about an aspect of the county’s history. Sales tax and shipping are extra. For order form and more, visit www.chathamhistory. org or contact CCHA, P.O. Box 93, Pittsboro, N.C. 27312.
COOLEEMEE HISTORICAL ASSO-CIATION has the magazine-format “Bobbin & Shuttle.” This publi-cation is dedicated to the collection and preservation of mill town
stories before they vanish and is available from the Textile Herit-age Center, P.O. Box 667, Cooleemee, N.C. 27014. Issues 2-6 are available for $3 each, with $2 shipping and handling for 1 to 2 copies and $1 shipping and han-dling for each additional copy. Bulk orders of 20 or more are $2 each plus postage. The association is also offering Cooleemee: The Life & Times of a Mill Town, by Jim Rumley, $40.95, plus $5 ship-ping; and Saving Our Legacy: Stories of the Vanishing World of the Southern Cotton Mill People: A “How To” Manual, by Lynn Rumley and Sarah Bryan. Written for people interested in starting a mill town preservation effort, this publication costs $25, plus $6 shipping and handling. The association is also selling A Salute to Our Veterans, which lists local veterans who served their country during World War II; the book costs $10, plus $4 shipping. The association is also selling Looking Back: Davie County in the Fifties & Sixties, by Charles Crenshaw and Ronnie L. Smith. This picture book in-cludes images of parades, sports, Lake Hide-Away, and Cooleemee. The book can be bought at the Zachary House for $38 or can be mailed for an additional $5. In addition, the association is offer-ing DVDs of Good Times in Old Cooleemee, a film from the late 1930s and 1940s by H. Lee Waters. This 2-DVD set costs $12, plus $2 shipping and handling. For more information or to place an order, write to CHA, PO Box 667, Cooleemee, NC 27014; call (336)
284-6040; or visit www.textileheritage.org.
DAVIE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY is offering the following: Images of America: Davie County and Images of America: Mocksville, by Debra Dotson and Jane
McAllister, $23.69 plus shipping; History of Davie County Schools, by Marie Roth, $38 plus shipping; Davie County … A Brief History, by James Wall, paper cover, $7.50; The Daniel, Squire and John Boone Families in Davie County, by Wall, Boone, & Martin, $5; Davie County Marriages 1836-1900, by Nancy K. Murphy, $25.00; Davie County Marriages 1901-1959, by Nancy K. Murphy, $25; Davie County Cemeteries, a two-volume set, $55; 1860 Federal Census: Davie County, by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1870 Federal Census: Davie County, by Murphy and Sain, $17; 1880 Federal Census: Davie County, by Murphy and Sain, $22.50; Maps: Lagle Land Grant, $6.50; Hughes Historical, $6.50; 1887 Alderman, $2.50; Postcards (set of 8), $2.50. The society is also selling the Davie County Heritage Book for $40 plus shipping, and The Civil War Roster of Davie County, North Carolina, by Mary Alice Hasty and Hazel Winfree. N.C. residents add 7.75% sales tax. Order through the DCHGS, 371 North Main Street, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.
DUKE HOMESTEAD STATE HIS-TORIC SITE: Bull Durham Busi-ness Bonanza 1866-1940, by Ben and Snow Roberts, $21.95; The Dukes of Durham 1865-1929, by Robert F. Durden, $22.95; Bold Entrepreneur: A Life of James B. Duke, by Robert F. Durden,
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$24.50. For more information, call (919) 477-5498. Prices include tax.
The DUPLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY is selling In Honor of Duplin County’s Vietnam War Dead. This 46-page books contains photos, histories, and family memories of the nineteen Duplin County men who died in service during the Vietnam War. Cost: $20. To order, please write to DCHS, PO Box 775, Kenansville, NC 28349.
EDENTON HISTORICAL COMMIS-SION: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin,
narrative by John S. Jacobs, $16.50. This enlarged edition of Jacobs’ celebrated slave narrative now completes the Jacobs family saga, surely one of the most memorable in all of American history. John Jacobs’s short slave narrative, A True Tale of Slavery, published in London in 1861, adds a broth-er’s perspective to Harriet Ja-cobs’s own autobiography. Har-riet Jacobs Family Papers, $100. Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life. Her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, holds a central place in the canon of American literature as the most important slave narrative by an African American woman. A Very Muti-nous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713, by Noeleen McIlvenna $32.50. Histo-rians have often glorified 18th-century Virginia planters’ philo-sophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to the author, the true exemplars
of egalitarian political values had fled Virginia’s plantation society late in the seventeenth century to create the first successful European colony in the Albemarle, in present- day North Carolina. A Richer Heritage: A Guide to Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First Century, $55 (hardcover), $27.50 (paperback). This book is a thought-provoking guide for
professionals as well as adminis-trators, volunteers, and policy makers involved in preservation efforts. To order or to learn more about other books that the historical commission sells, please visit www.edentonhistorical
commission.org/giftshop.php, or call (252) 482-7800.
The EDENTON WOMAN’S CLUB presents Between the River and the Sound: The Architectural Heritage of Chowan County, North Carolina as the companion volume to its 1992 publication, Edenton: An Architectural Portrait. Both publications reflect the work of architectural historian Thomas Butchko with input from other experts in the field. The new book provides an unprecedented look at the remarkable architectural legacy of the county’s countryside. Some 300 properties are included, from humble farmhouses to well-known antebellum plantation houses like Hayes, Greenfield, Mulberry Hill, Athol, and Sandy Point. Also profiled are churches, schools, country stores, and a host of other buildings constructed into the mid-20th century. A discussion of the environment, history, and archi-tecture of the county places the buildings in context and hundreds of photos convey a sense of archi-tectural riches past and present. Handsomely rendered maps and a road-based organization will assist readers in touring the old and
interesting places of the beautiful Chowan County landscape. To
order, write the Barker House, 505 S. Broad St., Edenton, NC 27932; call (252) 482-7800; or visit http://ehcnc.org/giftshop.php.
FEDERAL POINT HISTORIC
PRESERVATION SOCIETY has re-printed its booklet Monuments and Markers of Federal Point, compiled by Sandy Jackson and edited by Darlene Bright. This 50-page volume traces the history of the area through its memorials. The booklet costs $12.50. The soci-ety is also offering Images of America: Carolina Beach by Lois Wheatley (Arcadia, 2012), $21.99; My Friend the Enemy: The Battle at Fort Fisher as Recalled by Colonel Lamb, CSA & General Curtis, USA, fully illustrated, $10 each; Caro-lina Beach: A Postcard Histo-ry, by Elaine Henson, $19.95; Surfing on the Cape Fear Coast, by Joseph “Skipper”
Funderburg, $29.95; Carolina Beach: Images and Icons of a Bygone Era, by D. R. Norris, $29.95; Carolina Beach: Friends and Neighbors Remembered, by D. R. Norris, $29.95; Big Book of the Cape Fear River, by Claude Jackson, $39.95; The Wilmington Campaign: Last Days of Depart-ing Hope, by Chris E. Fonvielle, (used) $20; and The Ferries of North Carolina, by Barbara Brannon, $16.95. For more infor-mation and to order, please contact the Federal Point Historical Society at PO Box 623, Carolina Beach, NC 28428; call (910) 458-0502; or send an email to FPHPS@yahoo.com.
FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY: Please note that the following prices do not include shipping; for each book (except for Proceedings of the US Forest Service Centenni-
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al Congress) and for the DVD set, shipping is $4; for Proceedings, shipping is $5. Please also note that the prices below refer to paperback books; when hardcover books are available, you will see a price for paperback and hardcover books. Proceedings of the U.S. Forest Service Centennial Congress: A Collective Commit-ment to Conservation, edited by Steven Anderson, $24.95; The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film, 3-disc DVD set, $18; The Forest Service and the Greatest Good: A Centennial History, by James G. Lewis, $20; Jack Ward Thomas: The Jour-nals of a Forest Service Chief, edited by Harold K. Steen, $30; Tongass Timber, by James Mackovjak, $19.95; Forest Aes-thetics, by Heinrich von Salis, translated by Walker L. Cook, Jr. and Doris Wehlau, $24.95;
Common Goals for Sustaina-ble Forest Management: Diver-gence and Reconvergence of American and European Forestry, edited by V. Alaric Sample and Steven Anderson, $24.95; A Hard Road to Travel: Land, Forests, and People in the Upper Athabasca Region, by Peter J. Murphy et al., $42.95 (cloth), $29.95 (paper); Pathway to Sustainability: Defining the Bounds on Forest Management, by John Fedkiw, $8.95; The U.S. Forest Service: A History, Centennial Edition, by Harold K. Steen, $40 (cloth), $25 (paper); The Conservation Diaries of Gifford Pinchot, edited by Harold K. Steen, $29 (cloth), $19 (paper); Millicoma: Biography of a
Pacific Northwestern Forest, by Arthur V. Smyth, $12.95; Bringing in the Wood: The Way It Was at Chesapeake Corporation, by Mary Wakefield Buxton, $29.95 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback);
Forest and Wildlife Science in America: A History, edited by Hatrold K. Steen, $14.95; Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913, by Carl Alwin Schenck, edited by Ovid Butler, $12.95; Forest Service Research: Find-ing Answers to Conservation’s Questions, by Harold K. Steen, $10.95; View from the Top: Forest Service Research, R. Keith Arnold, M. B. Dickerman, and Robert E. Buckman, OHIs by Harold K. Steen, $13; From Sage-brush to Sage: The Making of a Natural Resource Economist, by Marion Clawson, $9.95; Plan-tation Forestry in the Amazon: The Jari Experience, by Clayton E. Posey, Robert J. Gilvary, John C. Welker, and Lawrence N. Thompson, OHIs by Harold K. Steen, $12.95; America’s Fires: A Historical Context for Policy and Practice, by Stephen J. Pyne, $9.95; America’s Fires: Management of Wildlands and Forests, by Stephen J. Pyne, $9.95; America’s Forested Wetlands: From Wasteland to Valued Resource, by Jeffrey K. Stine, $9.95; American Forests: A History of Resiliency and Recovery, by Douglas W. Mac-Cleery, $9.95; Canada’s Forests: A History, by Ken Drushka, $9.95; Forest Pharmacy: Medic-inal Plants in American Forests, by Steven Foster, $9.95; Forest Sustainability: The History, the Challenge, the Promise, by Donald W. Floyd, $9.95; Genet-ically Modified Forests: From Stone Age to Modern Biotech-nology, by Rowland D. Burdon and William J. Libby, $9.95; and Newsprint: Canadian Supply and American Demand, by Thomas R. Roach, $9.95. As noted, shipping for any of the books or DVDs above (except for Proceedings)
is $4; add $5 shipping for Proceed-ings. To order, contact FHS, 701 Vickers Avenue, Durham, NC 27701; call (919) 682-9319; fax (919) 682-2349; or visit www.forest history.org.
FRIENDS OF THE PAGE-WALKER HOTEL: Desegregating Cary, by Peggy Van Scoyoc, a book based on oral history interviews of Cary residents who were involved in desegregation. For more infor-mation, please call (919) 460-4963.
GASTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Our Kin, by Miles Hoff-man, $30; The County of Gaston: Two Centuries of a North Car-olina Region, by Robert Cope and Manly Wade Wellman, $10.50; The Complete 1850
Census of Gaston County, North Carolina, $16, and Gaston County, North Carolina:
Marriage Bonds and Licenses, 1848-1888, by Libby Goodnight, Linda Bell, and Robert Carpenter, $18. Also available are Historical Society calendars from 1996 to 2007 for $3 each. For orders, add $5 shipping and handling to the book prices and write to William N. Craig, Publications Chairman, GCHS, 315 Union New Hope Road, Gastonia, N.C. 28056.
GATES COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: Forgotten Gates: The Historical Architecture of a Rural North Carolina County, by Tom Butchko, $40, plus $5 shipping; Carlton Morris Writes: 1957-58, featuring human inter-est stories written by Morris when he was editor of Gates County
Index, $20, plus $5 shipping; and Just Down the Road...In Our Own Words, compiled by Peggy Lefler, $30, plus $5 shipping. Just Down the Road features 100
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unedited essays about growing up in the early 1900s to mid-1960s in the hamlets, villages, and cross-roads of rural Gates County. Readers of this collection quickly become aware of a common thread running throughout the collection— love of family, church, and neigh-bors. The society is also now selling Voices From No-Man’s Land: Gates County and The Civil War, compiled by Peggy Lefler, $25, plus $5 shipping. Voices From No-Man’s Land includes local keepsakes, photographs, stories/folklore, documents, letters, diaries, cemetery records, etc. related to Gates County’s partici-pation in the Civil War. Voices cry from letters written on battle-fields to parents and siblings, to wives or sweethearts and from a diary found on a dead Yankee by a Gates County soldier. Copies of documents shared by family members share personal events from Gates County Civil War soldiers. To order, contact the Gates County Historical Society, PO Box 98, Gates, NC 27937.
THE GOVERNOR CHARLES B. AYCOCK STATE HISTORIC SITE: Jesse Aycock, His Descendants, Revolutionary War Soldier, $15, plus $5 for shipping; Eagles On Their Buttons: A Black Infantry Regiment In the Civil War, $35, plus $5 shipping; and a Teacher Packet, a reproducible 54-page soft cover designed to teach the history of Governor Aycock at the fourth-grade level. Copies are $4.75, plus $3 shipping. Call (919) 242-5581, or write
Aycock Birthplace, 64 Governor Aycock Road, Fremont, N.C. 27830.
GRANVILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM is selling
Heritage and Homesteads: The History and Architecture of
Granville County, North Caro-lina, $60 plus $7.50 shipping and handling. Published by the
historical society, this book contains more than 700 illustrations and is divided into three sections: county history, architectural essay on the built landscape, and individual property descriptions of selected significant properties found in the county. For more information, call (919) 693-9706 or write to the
museum at PO Box 1433, Oxford, NC 27565.
THE GREENSBORO HISTORICAL MUSEUM is selling The Beat Goes On, by retired reporter Jim Schlosser, for $25. The book features 100 columns that Schlosser wrote between 1968 and 2007 and range from the offbeat to the historically significant. The museum is also selling Once Upon a City: Greensboro, North Carolina’s Second Century, by Howard Covington, for $24.95. This narrative history, told through the people who helped shaped the city, traces the city’s development from just before the 1920s to the start of the twenty-first century. The museum is also now selling Mid Life, Mid Century, Mid South, by Virginia F. Zenke. Zenke, who worked as an interior designer and also became involved in historic preservation, describes her experiences in the mid-20th century. Cost: $22.50. The museum is also selling Greensboro: A Chosen Center by Gayle Fripp, Guilford County’s official historian. This illustration-rich narrative provides a chronological history of the Gate City from prehistory to 2000. The work covers a broad range of topics to capture Greens-boro’s cultural, economic, political and social history. Cost: $32.95. For more information, call (336) 373-2949.
THE HALIFAX COUNTY HISTORI-CAL ASSOCIATION is now selling The Historic Architecture of Halifax County, North Carolina. This hard-cover book features more than 500 properties and includes more than 1,000 illustra-tions. Cost: $75, plus $10 shipping and handling. To order, write to the Halifax County Historical
Society, PO Box 12, Halifax, NC 27839.
THE HENDERSON COUNTY
GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, INC.: Henderson County Heritage, Vol. I, (reprinted 2003) $55; Henderson County Heritage, Vol. II, $55 (add $8 shipping for the first book and $4 for each additional book); Index to Henderson County, N.C. Births, 1914-1942, $50;
Index to Henderson County,
N.C. Deaths, 1914-1956, $28; Henderson County: NC WWI Draft Registrations, $28; The Story of Henderson County, by Sadie Patton, $37.50; Postmarks: A History of Henderson County, North Carolina, 1797-1968 (a history of the early post offices, roads, communities and families of the Henderson County area) $28; A Brief History of the Black Presence in Henderson County, $20; Sketches of Polk County, by Sadie Patton, $27.50; and Polk County Cemetery Book, $33.50 (add $3.50 shipping for each). The society is also now selling Minutes of Henderson County, North Carolina, North Carolina Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions: 1839-1848. This 500-page, hardbound and indexed book includes the minutes for the first ten years following the formation of Henderson County. During this early period, major portions of what is now Transyl-vania County (formed in 1861)
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and much of what is now Polk County (formed in 1855) were in-cluded as part of Henderson Coun-ty. This publication received the 2010 North Carolina Genealogical Society Award for Excellence in Publishing for a book, or set of books, of abstracts or transcriptions of original North Carolina primary source material. The cost is $60 (plus $8 shipping). North Carolina residents add 7.75% sales tax. Send orders to HCGHS, 400 North Main Street, Hendersonville, NC 28792. Various census records for Henderson, Polk, Transylvania, and McDowell Counties are also available. Please call (828) 693-1531, visit www.hcghs.com, or email hcghs@bellsouth.net for availability and prices.
THE HICKORY LANDMARKS
SOCIETY: From Tavern to Town Revisited: An Architectural History of Hickory, North
Carolina, by Albert Keiser, Jr. and Angela May. In addition to tracing how Hickory grew from a stage-coach stop to one of the state’s largest economic centers, this book also details the history and legacy of historic preservation in Hickory. Cost: $24.95, plus tax and shipping. The society is also selling Nora’s Dream: Growing Up in 19th Century Hickory, North Carolina. Set in the 1880s, the book tells a fact-based, fictional story of young Nora Chuford, daughter of one of Hickory’s most prominent pioneer families. Though the book is aimed toward children with 2nd to 4th grade reading levels, it will appeal to all readers. Included separately in this illustrated book is a Spanish language version. Cost: $9.60 for members, $12 for non-members, with $3 shipping. The society is also selling Lost Hickory: A Compendium of Vanished
Landmarks, by Leslie Keller. This illustrated book includes more than 150 “lost” properties from the period of 1885 to 1935 and explores each building’s archi-tectural and historical significance. A hardcover copy of the book costs $29.65 for HLS members, $32.95 for non-members, while a paperback book costs $16.15 for members, $17.95 for non-members, with $3 added for shipping Call (828) 322-4731, visit www.hickoryland marks.org, or send a check made out to the society to PO Box 2341, Hickory, NC 28603.
The HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY is now selling First
Creation: 100 Years of Land Conservation, by the Highlands Cashiers Land Trust. This colorful photographic coffee-table book celebrates the centennial of North Carolina’s oldest Land Trust; $50. The society is also selling
Remembering Highlands: From Pioneer Village to Moun-tain Retreat, by Isabel and Tony Chambers, $24. This book offers charming tales of old Highlands as told by fathers, grandfathers, letters, deeds, and tombstones. Also being sold are A Brief History of Highlands, by Randolph P. Shaffner and Katie Brugger, a DVD presenting a five-minute visual history of the origin and growth of Highlands, which won the Paul Green Multimedia Award from the N.C. Society of Historians; $10; Heart of the Blue Ridge: Highlands, North Carolina, by Randolph P. Shaffner, the 800-page definitive history of the town, $25; The Mountain at the End of the Trail: A History of Whiteside Mountain, by Robert Zahner, the story of one of the world’s oldest mountains,$12; History and Cuisine of Highlands Inn, by
Helen Major et al., recipes featured by Highlands’ first hotel, $5; Good Reading Material, Mostly Bound and New: The Hudson Library, 1884-1994, by Randolph P. Shaffner, a history of one of North Carolina’s oldest libraries, $14; Highlands, North Carolina . . . The Early Years, by Angela Lewis Jenkins, a coffee-table book containing 227 black-and-white photographs, $50; and Highlands, by Randolph Shaffner, $20. This book, part of
Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series, features more than 265 photographs and information from oral interviews, memoirs, letters, and more. For more information, visit the Gift Shop at www.highlands history.com or e-mail highlandshistory@nctv.com.
HIGH POINT MUSEUM: Our Roots, Our Branches, Our Fruit, by Glenn Chavis, tracing African American history in High Point from 1859 to 1960, $24.95 plus tax and shipping; When Racing Was Racing, history of local racers 1940-1959, by Barbara Taylor, $5.95, plus $2.36 tax and shipping, and Clark’s Collection of
Historical Remembrances, (Histories of High Point), compiled by Mary Lib Joyce, $35, plus tax and shipping. Call (336) 885-1859 or order online at www. highpointmuseum.org/store.htm.
HISTORICAL PRESERVATION GROUP: “The First of Patriots and the Best of Men:” Richard Caswell in Public Life, by Clay-ton Brown Alexander and edited by Dr. Keats Sparrow. This is the only book-length study of Caswell, North Carolina’s first governor. Cost: $26, plus $6 shipping. For more information, contact Martha Marble at 58marble@suddenlink. net or send a check made out to the Lenoir County Colonial
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HISTORIC FLAT ROCK, INC.: Flat Rock: The Little Charleston of the Mountains, by Galen Reuther, about the historic village of Flat Rock. Read about the history of this beautiful Western North Carolina region while viewing a wonderful collection of period photographs. This Images of America book takes you from the late 1700s to the present. Proceeds from the book go to Historic Flat Rock, Inc., to aid them in their efforts to preserve historic properties of Flat Rock, N.C. Cost is $23.99, including shipping. To order,
contact HFR, P.O. Box 295, Flat Rock, NC 28731.
HISTORIC HOPE FOUNDATION, INC.: The Miracle of Hope Plantation highlights 200 years of the history of Hope Plantation. The 24-page commemorative program is available for $9.95 plus shipping and handling. The foundation is also selling WH Cabinetmaker: A Southern Mystery Revealed, by Thomas R. J. Newbern and James R. Melchor. This book reveals the identity of WH, a previously unidentified but influential cabinetmaker whose work appears in historic architec-ture of the lower Roanoke River Basin. Using extensive research of primary sources, the authors trace the impact this cabinetmaker had on an entire generation of trades-men. For more information, call (252) 794-3140, or visit www.hopeplantation.org.
Monika Fleming of the HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRADES PROGRAM, EDGECOMBE COMMUNITY
COLLEGE, has written Images of America: Echoes of Edgecombe County 1860-1940, published in
1996 and covering about half of Tarboro, $20; Images of Ameri-ca: Edgecombe County, Vol. 2, published 1997 and covering all communities in the county from 1900 to the 1990s, $20; Images of America: Rocky Mount & Nash County, published 1998 and cover-ing the Edgecombe side of Rocky Mount as well as many Nash County communities, $20; Making of America: Edgecombe County Along the Tar River, published in 2003 and providing a detailed narrative history of the county and its development illustrated with maps and many photos of peo-ple and events, 160 pages, in-cludes sources and index, $25. These books can be ordered directly from Monika Fleming, with $3 added per book for shipping, by
contacting her at flemingm@
edgecombe.edu or writing to her at 812 St. Andrew St., Tarboro, 27886. The books can also be ordered
directly from the publisher at www.arcadiapublishing.com.
HYDE COUNTY HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: Hyde Yesterdays: A History of Hyde County, by Morgan Holt Harris, hard cover, 375 pages, name and place indices, $30, plus $5 shipping; In Memory of…: An Index to Hyde County Cemeteries, by Rebecca Swindell and R. S. Spencer Jr., including genealogical infor-mation of more than 6,000 people buried in the county, $40 plus $5 shipping; Hyde County History Book, 480 pages with a section on each of the county’s five town-ships, $45 plus $6 shipping; The Estates of Hyde 1700s, by R.S. Spencer, Jr., abstracts of 600 folders of loose Hyde estate records of the 1700s in the North Carolina
Archives, indexed, $25 plus $5 shipping; Hyde Remembers:
Historic Bible and Family
Records of Hyde County, North Carolina, by R. S. Spencer, Jr., record of 365 Bibles and family records, $30 plus $5 shipping; The 1850 Census of Hyde County, North Carolina, a compilation of all census schedules taken in 1850, abstracted and indexed by Seth D. and Sandra S. Carawan, $30 plus $5 shipping; The 1900 Census of Hyde County, North Carolina, by Crestena Jennings Oakley, $30 plus $5 shipping; Hyde County, North Carolina Record of Deeds A, 1736-1762, abstracted and indexed by Allen Wilkinson Hart Norris, includes general, Negro, occupation, place name, and women’s Christian name indices, $25 plus $5 shipping; Hyde County, North Carolina Record of Deeds B, 1762-1783, abstracted and indexed by Allen Wilkinson Hart Norris and edited by Betty S. Mann and Ellen A. Williams, includes births, burials, marriages as well as fragmented deeds, with general, Indian, Negro, occupation, place name, and women’s Christian name indices, $25 plus $5 shipping; In the Name of God, Amen! Abstracts of Hyde County, North Carolina Wills Probate 1709 through 1775, by Ellen A. Williams, with full name index, Negro index, and place name index, $30 plus $5 shipping; In the Name of God, Amen! Abstracts of Hyde County, North Carolina Wills Probate 1776 to May Court 1819, Book II, by Ellen A. Williams, with general name index, Negro index, occupation index, Christian name index, place name index, $30 plus $5 shipping;
Hidden Ancestors: Abstract of Bastardy Papers and Selected Court Minutes Hyde County, North Carolina 1740-1896, abstracted by Crestena Jennings Oakley, edited and indexed by Ellen A. Williams, $25 plus $5
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shipping; Hyde County (NC) Land Divisions in the Eight-eenth and Nineteenth Centuries, by Richard B. Lupton, $35 plus $5 shipping; and Landmarks of Hyde County, North Carolina: The Mainland and Ocracoke Island, a 250-page hardcover book that traces the county’s development in well-illustrated historical and architectural essays followed by an inventory that profiles hundreds of buildings, $55, plus $6 shipping. Back issues of High Tides, a semi-annual journal of the society, cost $10 each plus $3 shipping per issue, with 10 or more issues costing $8 each plus $2 shipping per issue. Please note that a 7.75% sales tax will be added to all purchases. To order, mail requests to R. S. Spencer, Inc., PO Box 159, Engelhard, NC 27824.
The JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE is selling Guide to North Caroli-na Highway Markers (10th edi-tion), a wonderful resource to have in the car while you are trav-eling around the state. Does your driver refuse to stop so you can read the markers? Problem solved—you can read the text and your driver can continue on his/her way. Organized by county with photos and maps, $22. The Museum House is also selling
Society in Colonial North Carolina, by Alan D. Watson, (Revised Edition), detailing many areas of life in colonial North Car-olina, including family, servitude and slavery, religion, and trans-portation and communication, $16; North Carolina in the American Revolution, by Hugh F. Rankin, first published in 1959, a comprehensive review of the people who fought and the battles in which they struggled to free this nation free from tyranny, $13; The History of the American
Revolution: Highlights of the Important Battles and Docu-ments of Freedom, a brief
summary of that crucial era in American history and spanning the years from 1763 to 1783 when the peace treaty was signed, $7.25; American Cookery: or, the Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry and Vegetables by Amelia Simmons, an Ameri-can Orphan, is a paperback
facsimile edition of the 86-page cookbook originally published in 1796, $17. Poor Richard, 1733. An Almanack for the Year of Christ 1733, being the First
after Leap Year by Richard Saunders is a 26-page paperback facsimile edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Almanack, which took the unusual and controversial step of injecting witty entries be-tween standard tables of tides, weather prediction, and other facts, $12; The Declaration of Independence with Short Biog-raphies of Its Signers is an
attractive hardback book with 32 pages and features the entire text of the document and allows the reader to discover who those brave men who signed the docu-ment were, $17; The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin was first published in 1758 as a preface to his Poor Richard’s Almanack and has been called a summing up of all his previously published thoughts on how to achieve success in business, $17; George Washington’s Rules of Civility & Behavior in Company and Conversation is a re-creation of the tome written by the father of our country when he was just 14 years old. This 30-page hard bound book includes his 110 rules to “inculcate the practice of a perfect self control, $17; Chameleon on the Crabtree, commissioned by Joel Lane Museum House in 2001,
Dr. Jerry L. Cross’s biography of Joel Lane is unprecedented in its scope and scholarship. This spiral-bound book of 93 pages answers many questions about the man and the myths surrounding him, $30: Herbs and Herb Lore of Colonial America, originally published in 1970 by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Connecticut, this edition from 1995 is a charming paperback totaling 74 pages. Each plant is pictured in a line drawing with its botanical and familiar names and a brief description of the plant and its historical uses, $11; Quotations of George Washington is a 32-page hard-cover book with a short biography of the “father of our country, $17; Quotations of Benjamin Franklin is a 32-page hardcover book with a short biography of the great man, $17; Quotations of Thomas Jefferson is a 32-page hardback book including a short biography of this founding father, $17; Great American Treasures: Properties, Projects, Collections by the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America is an illustrated listing by state of properties owned, managed, or helped by the Society, $11.50; North Carolina Slave Narra-tives: A Folk History of Slavery in North Carolina is a facsimile of the transcript of typewritten records prepared by the Federal Writers’ Project 1936-38. It is 158 pages of first-hand accounts of being held as slaves in North Carolina, $21.25; Greene and Cornwallis: The Campaign in the Carolinas by Hugh F. Rankin provides an overview of that critical campaign of the American Revolu-tion, $21.25; A History of African Americans in North Carolina by Crow, Escott, and Hatley is a scholarly look at the history of
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North Carolina’s African Americans. At 266 pages with index and black-and-white illustrations, this paperback was revised in 2002 and costs $21.25; Life in the Southern Colonies: Jamestown, Williamsburg, St. Mary’s City and Beyond, edited by Jeanne M. Bracken, this 64-page paperback book is a quick introduction to life in the Southern colonies, $13.75; The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina by Hugh F. Rankin, is an 81-page paperback with index, two appendices, and several grisly illustrations. This 2010 edition is perfect for the pirate lover who wants to know the facts. The narrative, of course, includes the infamous North Carolinian, Blackbeard, $13.75; Historic Architecture of Wake County, North Carolina by Kelly A. Lally is THE definitive tome on Wake County architecture. At 448 pages including index and with many black and white photos, this hardback book is a must-have reference book for any serious student of Wake County history, $55; and Historic Wake County: The Story of Raleigh and Wake by K. Todd Johnson is a full-color hard cover book of 128 pages. Our copies have been signed by the author. The Joel Lane House and Joel Lane are featured on pages 9 & 10 of this book, $53. The museum is also selling The Constitution of the U.S. of A., 30 pp., a tran-scription of the US Constitution, $17, hardcover. A Chronicle of NC during the American Revo-lution 1763-1789, by Jeffry Crow, 61 pp., a brief, chronological survey of the Revolution in North Carolina, $13, softcover; The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Mrs. Glasse. 325 pp., facsimile of 1805 edition, softcover. America’s most popular cookbook in 1776. $28; The Black Experience in Revo-
lutionary NC by Jeffrey Crow, softcover, 128 pp. $16; Wake, Capital County, Vol. I, by Eliza-beth Reid Murray, 770 pp., hard-cover, the story of Wake County from pre-history through the 1870s, special price $31.50.;
Wake, Capital County, Vol. II, by K. Todd Johnson & Elizabeth Reid Murray, 821 pp., hardcover, takes up the story of Wake County from Reconstruction to 2008, special price $31.50. All prices do include shipping and handling. To order, visit www.joellane.org, write to the Joel Lane Museum House, PO Box 10884, Raleigh, NC 27605, or call (919) 833-3431.
THE JOHNSTON COUNTY HERIT-AGE CENTER is now selling Fine As Frog’s Hair: A Rural Lexicon, a dictionary of unique expressions used by Johnston County residents. The author, Steve Landau, is a family physician originally from Philadelphia who has collected a variety of expressions during his more than 20 years serving in Johnston County. Cost: $10, plus tax and shipping. The center is also selling Images of America: Johnston County, by Todd Johnson and Durwood Barbour, $19.99 plus tax and shipping, and Johnston County: Its History Since 1746, by Thomas J. Lassiter & T. Wingate Lassiter. This narrative history is by two former editors of The Smithfield Herald and is available for $15 plus tax and shipping. Visit www.johnstonnc.com/heritage/giftshop, or call (919) 934-2836.
THE LAWNDALE HISTORICAL SOCI-ETY announces the publication of “Deer Wife:” The Civil War Letters of David Johnson, Co. B, 11th Regt. Inf., NC, CSA, tran-scribed and written by Theresa S. Lowe. This book features 28 to 30 letters written between January
1864 and June 1864, from David Johnson to his wife Susanah and their children. The book also includes David’s service records, Susanah’s pension application, letters from Susanah to her
children later in life, and some information about the places and things in the letters. Spelling and wording has been kept as in the letters; for instance the word “deer” in the title appears as it was written in the letters. The book includes some information on life in that era and recollections from Susanah’s family by great-granddaughter Dot Lee. Cost: $15 plus $3 shipping and handling. To order: Mail check, payable to the Lawndale Historical Society, to Theresa S. Lowe, 2245 N. Lafayette, Shelby, NC 28150.
The LEWISVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY announces the publication of Lewisville, by Merrikay Ever-ett Brown and Darla Morgan John-son, in association with the histor-ical society. This “Images of Amer-ica” publication from Arcadia Publishing includes more than 200 vintage photographs collected by members of the historical society. The book traces the history of this Forsyth County community from its founding in 1859 by Lewis Case Laugenour, who acquired his wealth during the California Gold Rush, to the present. The book costs $21.99 and is available through local retailers, online bookstores, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888) 313-2665 or www.arcadiapublishing.com.
THE LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORI-CAL ASSOCIATION: Images of America: Lincoln County. This book contains more than 200 images and explores the personal side of the county’s history, show-casing everyday life in Lincolnton
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and the smaller rural communities. Fore more information, call (704) 748-9090 or visit www.lincolncounty history.com.
LOWER CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Historic Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear: An Illustrated History, by Dr. Chris Fonvielle, $49.95; The Bank of Cape Fear of Wilmington, North Carolina, by Robert Neale, $16.05; Stories Old and New of the Cape Fear Region, as told by Louis T. Moore, $16.05; Salt, That Necessary Article, by Isabel M. Williams and Leora H. McEachern, $8.50; Harnett, Hooper & Howe: Revolutionary Leaders of the Lower Cape Fear, by Alan D. Watson, Dennis R. Lawson, and Donald R. Lennon, $21.35; Marvelous Old Mansion and Other Southern Treasures, by Sylvia Higgenbotham, $18.15; Wilmington Through the Lens of Louis T. Moore, by Susan
Taylor Block, $48.15; and Modern Recipes of Historic Wilmington, by Ann Hertzler, $21.40. All prices include tax; $5 per book shipping. Call (910) 762-0492, visit www. latimerhouse.org, or write LCFHS, 126 South 3rd St., Wilmington, NC 28401.
The MATTHEWS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION is selling Matthews Memories: A Collection of Remembrances and Recipes from a Small Southern Town. This collection contains 133 pages of stories and recipes with over 40 photos from early and contemporary Matthews cooks and kitchens. Included are references to early Matthews and local southern dishes, such as Creecy Greens. All proceeds from the sale of this book benefit Matthews restoration
projects. Books cost $, plus $3 shipping and handling. An order
form is available online at www. matthewshistoricalfoundation.org/ projects.htm; the form and checks, made payable to the foundation, can be sent to Matthews Historical Foundation, PO Box 1117,
Matthews, NC 28106.
THE MECKLENBURG HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: A Life in Ante-bellum Charlotte: The Private Journal of Sarah Frew Da-vidson, 1837, edited by Karen McConnell, Janet Dyer, and Ann Williams, with a forward by Mary Kratt, and published by The
History Press, Charleston SC. This is a transcription of Sarah David-
son’s Journal for 1837, with addi-tional historic information written by the editors. 1837 was a pivotal year in the history of North Caro-lina with the development of the gold mining industry and the
construction of the first branch of the US Mint, in Charlotte. Other events described include the
education of slave children and Sarah’s religious introspection and commitment. The original Journal is held in the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection of the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNCC. The book sells for $24.00 including tax, handling and
shipping. Chain of Error and the Mecklenburg Declarations of Independence by V. V. McNitt, republished by the MHA with a new introduction and brief sketch-es of the signers added. This is a closely reasoned and thorough description of the two declarations of May 20 & May 31, 1775 which were the earliest declarations of independence from Great Britain in the American colonies. The book sells for $28.50, including tax & shipping. Your Affectionate Daughter, Isabella, by Ann Williams, is the story of Isabella Torrance, preserved through letters
and other records now held in the Rare Book and Manuscript Collec-tion of the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNCC. The story is written from the points of view of those who lived it and told in the language they spoke. It tells the story of growing up on a wealthy antebellum plantation in Mecklen-burg County and at the Salem Female Boarding School; of pioneer-ing in primitive conditions on the Mississippi frontier; and of Isabella’s return to Mecklenburg as a young widow with a small child. This book sells for $21.50, including tax & shipping. To order these books, send your check and mailing instructions to The MHA, PO Box 35032, Charlotte, NC 28235.
MOORE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION is now selling three books by Larry Koster; all three books sell for $9.95, and all three won awards form the N.C. Society of Historians. These books include The Hotels and Boarding Houses of Moore County, NC 1870-1950; The Story of Parkewood, NC: A Moore County Community That Disappeared; and The Photographers of Moore County, NC and Their Post-cards 1900-1970. The associa-tion is also selling Images of America: East and West Southern Pines, $19.99; Imag-es of America: A Sandhills Album, Photographs by E.C. Eddy, by Stephen E. Massengill, $19.99; The Scottish Blue Family in North America, by Douglas F. Kelly, $75; Carolina Scots: An Historical and
Genealogical Study of Over 100 Years of Immigration, by Douglas F. Kelly with Caroline Switzer Kelly; Miscellaneous Ancient Records of Moore County, by Rassie E. Wicker,
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$19.95; Namesake: Alfred Moore, Soldier and Jurist, 1775-1810, by Robert Mason, $9.95; Young Southern Pines, by Helen G. Huttenhour, $19.95; Plain-Style: The Work of 18th and 19th Century Craftsmen in Moore County, North Carolina, $8.95; The County of Moore, 1747-1847, by Blackwell Robinson, $14.95; Errata and Addenda (for above) by Rassie E. Wicker, edited by J. Atwood Whitman $1.95; The Story of Moore County, by Manly Wade Wellman, $14.95; and The County of Moore 1847-1947, by Manly Wade Wellman, $14.95. Sand in My Shoes (332 pages, soft cover), by Catharine Ball Ripley, first published in 1931, tells of a young woman’s adventures and misadventures in trying to establish a peach orchard in the Sandhills in the 1920s and is available for $14.95. Moore County: Images of America by Richard J. Schloegl, $16.99; Patterns in Sand, by Meade Seawell, $9.95; and Tale of a Tar Heel Town, by Meade Seawell, $5. Larry Koster’s recent publica-tion, More Moore County History, won the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award from the N.C. Society of Historians. More Moore County History is available at the Shaw House Bookshop for $9.95. Please add 8% tax plus $3.00 per book shipping and mail to MCHA, PO Box 324, Southern Pines, NC 28388 or visit www.moorehistory. com, or call (910) 692-2051.
MOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF REGIONAL HISTORY: Surry County Soldiers in the Civil War, by Hester Bartlett Jackson, contains records and personal writings of Civil War soldiers, soft cover, 465 pages, $30, including tax and shipping; Surry County Heritage–North Carolina Vol.
II, contains family histories, hard cover, 514 pages, $65, plus tax and shipping; Surry County Heritage, Vol. I, $75 plus tax and shipping, and A Portion of My Life, by William Norman, diary written while a prisoner on Johnson Island during the Civil War, hard cover, $30, including tax and shipping. For more infor-mation, call (336) 786-4478 or write MAMRH, 301 North Main Street, Mount Airy, N.C. 27030.
MURFREESBORO HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: Trial Separation: Murfreesboro N.C. and The Civil War; Murfreesboro N.C. and the Founding of the Amer-ican Republic (1608-1781); and Murfreesboro N.C. and the Great Intracoastal Waterway 1786-1814, by Thomas C. Parra-more, all paper covers, $15 each; The Gatling Aeroplane of 1873, America’s First Airplane, by Thomas C. Parramore, paper cover for $7; Legends and Myths of North Carolina’s Roanoke
Chowan Area, by F. Roy Johnson, hard cover for $15; The Peanut Story; The Fabled Doctor Jim Jordan; Volume I- The Tuscaroras: Mythology, Medicine, and Culture; Volume II: The Tuscaroras: History, Tradition, and Culture all by F. Roy Johnson for $15 each; Murfreesboro, NC: Cradle of Titans and Murfreesboro, NC, and the Roots of Nat Turner’s Revolt by Thomas C. Parramore for $15 each; A History of the
Riddick Plantation of Hertford County, NC, a master’s thesis document by Frank Harris for $20; and The Walking Tour Booklet for $6.00. Please add $4 shipping and handling for each book and NC sales tax of 7.75%. To order, please contact MHA, PO
Box 3 Murfreesboro, N.C. 27855 or call (252) 398-5922.
THE NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY is selling The Battle of Lindley’s Mill by Algie I. Newlin, 2010 edition, $7.50; The Battle of New Garden (1977), by Algie I. Newlin, $7.50; Becoming Myself: My Life in Letters and Verse (2001), by Mary E. B. Feagins, $15; By Land and By Sea (1993), by Hiram H. Hilton, $13; Cane Creek: Mother of Meetings (1995), by Bobbie Teague, $13; The Carolina Quaker Experience (1984), by Seth B. Hinshaw, $16; The Church in the Wilderness (1948), by Henry J. Cadbury, $1; Deep River Friends: A
Valiant People (revised, updated 2009), by Cecil E. Haworth, $21.50; Friends at Back Creek (1993), by Grigg and Walker, $10; Friends “at the Spring”: A
History of Spring Monthly Meeting, by Algie I. Newlin (new edition in preparation); Friends in the Carolinas (1997), by J. Floyd Moore, $ 4.50; Friends on the Front Line: The Story of Delbert and Ruth Replogle (1985), by Lorton Heusel, $1; Friends Worship Today (1991), by Seth B. Hinshaw, $3.25; George Fox’s “Book of Miracles” (2000), ed. Henry J. Cadbury, $17.00; Greensboro Monthly Meeting (1987), by Hiram H. Hilty, $3.25; The Inner Light (1945), by Elbert Russell, $1; Life in the Quaker Lane (1990) by Seth B. Hinshaw, $7.50 Marriages in Contentnea Quarter (1988), by Theodore E. Perkins, $20; New Garden Friends Meeting (updated 2001), by Hiram H. Hilty, $13; New Hope Friends Meeting and the Elroy Commu-nity (1987), by James K. Thompson, $ 3.50; Parallel Lines In Pied-mont North Carolina Quaker
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and Moravian History (1949), by Adelaide L. Fries, $1; Pioneers in Quaker Education: The Story of John W. and Mary C. Woody (1992), by Mary Edith Hinshaw, $12; The Public Career of John Archdale, 1642-1717 (1976), by Henry G. Hood, Jr., $2; Sojourners No More: The Quakers In the New South, 1865-1920 (1997), by Damon C. Hickey, $20; The Southern Friend: Journal of the North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1979–2008 (all volumes available), single issue $5, double issue $10; The Spoken Ministry Among Friends (1987), by Seth B. Hinshaw, $4.50; Walk with Us: Pine Hill’s Heritage and Hope (1999), by Melva K. Greene, $20; and White Plains Friends Meet-ing, 1850-1952 (1982), by Frederick C. Crownfield, $3. Prices do not include shipping. To order, down-load the order form from www.ncfhs. org, write to NCFHS, PO Box 8502, Greensboro, NC 27419-8502, or call Lynne Gray at (336) 232-4618.
THE NORTH CAROLINA PRESBY-TERIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY has reprinted a 1964 speech by Dr. Harold J. Dudley entitled “Toryism in North Carolina.” A reprint is available for $2; contact Sally MacLeod Owens at (919) 835-0920 to order a copy.
The NORTH CAROLINA RAILWAY MUSEUM is selling The Wanderer of New Hope: A New Hope
Valley Ghost Story, by Bob Crowley. This novel (historical fiction) tells the story of a fictional family with ties to a local legend; the family’s experiences over four generations also reflects the changes that came to the New Hope Valley, fertile farmland that was flooded in the 1980s with the
creation of Jordan Lake. The book can be purchased at the North Carolina Railway Museum Store in New Hill; the store is open the first Sunday of each month from May through November and
Saturday and Sunday the first two weekends in December. The book can also be purchased online at Amazon.com and directly from the publisher at www.PeakCity Publishing.com. Cost: $12.99.
OCRACOKE PRESERVATION SOCI-ETY: The Society has a number of books and videos on Ocracoke
history and the local dialect,
Ocracoke Brogue. For more infor-mation, call (252) 928-7375; e-mail giftshop@ocracokepreservation.org; write to the OPS, P.O. Box 1240, Ocracoke, N.C. 27960; or visit www.ocracokepreservation.org.
ONSLOW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Onslow County Court Minutes, Vol. I (1732-1743), Vol. II (1744-1754), Vol. III (1755-1765), and Vol. IV (1766-1775), $17.50 each; The Heritage of Onslow County, North Caro-lina, hardcover, contains family histories, a county history presented through old photographs and newspaper articles, a pictorial honor section, and a section
dealing with the federal govern-ment’s 1941 acquisition of land for the Marine Corps bases of Camp Lejeune and New River Air Station, $51.73, plus tax and shipping. Also available are Markers of Time: Cemeteries of Onslow County, soft cover volumes for $24, includ-ing tax and shipping; and The Battle of New River, by L. J. Kimball, soft cover, $20,
including tax and shipping.
Contact the OCHS, P.O. Box 5203, Jacksonville, N.C. 28540.
PENDER COUNTY HISTORICAL
SOCIETY: History of Pender County, by Mattie Bloodworth, a reprint of a 1947 book, $30 plus $5 shipping; Pender County
Centennial, 1875-1975, featuring hundreds of photos of Pender County people and places, $6 plus $2 shipping; Jeffrey Stark: An Account by a Civil War Veteran, transcribed by Mary Bowen Caputo, $12 plus $2 shipping. This account was written by Edward F. Small who served with the 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery and was stationed at Fort Fisher when it was attacked on December 23, 1864. For more information, call (910) 259-8543 or email penderhist @hotmail.com.
PERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Person County Herit-age, Vols. I,. II, & III, $50 each plus $3.50 each for shipping; Reminiscences for $10 plus $3.50 shipping; Index for Remi-niscences for $5 plus $2.50 ship-ping; and Penelope’s Papers for $15 plus $3.50 shipping. Please add 7% sales tax. Send orders to PCHS, P.O. Box 887, Roxboro, N.C. 27573 or call (336) 597-3134.
THE PITT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina (2003 reprint of 1982 edition), $74.90, including tax, plus $10 shipping; Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina—Volume II, $74.90, including tax, plus $10 shipping; Historic Architecture of Pitt County, $42.80, including tax, plus $8 shipping; Cemetery Survey of Pitt County, North Carolina, $50, including tax, plus $10 shipping. For more infor-mation, contact Liz Sparrow at (252) 756-8056, or email her at liz_sparrow@yahoo.com.
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PRESERVATION NORTH CAROLI-NA: North Carolina Architec-ture, by Catherine Bishir and photographs by Tim Buchman, $59.95; Southern Built: American Architecture, Regional Practice, by Catherine Bishir, $35 for members, $42 for non-members; and Buying Time for Heritage, by J. Myrick Howard. This book offers examples of real estate strategies that can be used to preserve historic buildings; $20 for members, $25 for non-members. Prices do not include tax and ship-ping. For more information visit www.presnc.org, write to P.O. Box 27644, Raleigh, N.C. 27611-7644, or call (919) 832-3652.
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF CHAPEL HILL: The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975. Written by
architectural historian and UNC alumna Dr. Ruth Little, this 325-page book offers an architectural and historical survey of Chapel Hill and features 274 photographs. $30 for members and $35 for non-members. Please add 7% sales tax and $7 shipping for each book. To order, call (919) 942-7818.
THE RAILROAD HOUSE ASSOCIA-TION is offering The Men of Endor: Their Works and Times, 1861-1876, by Robert A. Weisner and edited by Lynn Veach Sadler, $25 plus $5 shipping and handling; Images of America: Sanford and Lee County, by Jimmy Haire and W. W. Seymour, Jr., $26, which includes tax and shipping; and In Celebration of the 2007 Centennial of Lee County, edited by Lynn Veach Sadler, containing a collection of historical articles and creative works, $20 plus $5 shipping and handling. To order, please send your orders to the Railroad House
Association Inc., PO Box 1023, Sanford, NC 27331-1023, Attention: Jane Barringer Book Sale. The association notes that its best-selling book The History and Architecture of Lee County, North Carolina, by J. Daniel Pezzoni, is now out of print but can occasionally be found for sale on the internet.
RALEIGH HISTORIC DISTRICTS COMMISSION: Culture Town: Life in Raleigh’s African American Communities, by Linda Simons-Henry (oral history) and Linda Harris Edmisten (architectural history), utilizes oral history and architectural
survey to show contributions made by eight communities to
Raleigh’s cultural development. Copies are available for $35 (tax included) from the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission office, One Exchange Plaza, Ste. 300, Raleigh, NC, or by mail for $38.50 (includes tax and shipping) from PO Box 829, Century Station, Raleigh, NC 27602.
RICHMOND COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY announces the publication of Mixed Blessings: Richmond County 1900 to 2000. This book is a continuation of the earlier work Ordinary Lives: Richmond County 1750 to 1900 and contains more than 300 photographs and 2,600 names and places. Mixed Blessings costs $45, plus tax and shipping. The society is also offering a special two-volume offer; order both Mixed Blessings and No Ordinary Lives for $65, plus ship-ping and handling. The society is also selling The Architectural History of Richmond County, $80 (tax and shipping included). Featuring 357 photographs, this book features properties of histori-cal significance and ranges in time
from the Pee Dee Indian Culture to the present. For more infor-mation, visit www.rchs-nc.net/books.htm; contact the society at PO Box 1763, Rockingham, NC 28380, or call (910) 895-1660.
SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA ARCHIVISTS: Archival & Manu-script Repositories in North Carolina: A Directory (1992) (2nd publishing). This 149-page directory identifies and describes 133 repositories in North Carolina with archival or manuscript hold-ings. Member price is $17, includes shipping; non-member price is $22, includes shipping. Make checks payable to Margaret M. Hofmann, P.O. Box 446, Roanoke Rapids, NC 27870.
SOUTHPORT HISTORICAL SOCIE-TY: Before We Were Quaint: The Southport Few Remember… And Others Can’t Imagine, by Larry Maisel. This book traces the history of the town since its found-ing in the 1700s and describes daily life, the fishing industry, and notable events and people before Southport became “quaint.” Cost: $22.50 for members, $25 for non-members. Of Home and the River: Southport Stories from the Civil War to the Present, $20 for members, $24 for non-members; Architecture of South-port, by Carl Lounsbury, second printing, 62-page soft cover, $7; Cap’n Charlie and the Lights of the Lower Cape Fear, by Ethel Herring, revised edition, $10.75; The Cemeteries of Southport, compiled by Dorcas W. Schmidt, 94-page soft cover, $8.50; Classic Southport Cooking, by Lewis J. Hardee, Jr., 409-page hard cover for $22; Fort Caswell in War and Peace, by Ethel Herring and Carolee Williams, 138-page hard cover, $18.25; Guns for Cotton,
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by Thomas Boaz, $10.75; A History of Fort Johnston, by Wilson Angley, 150-page soft cover, $6; Joshua’s Dream, by Susan S. Carson, 168-page soft cover, $10; Joshua’s Legacy, by Susan S. Carson and Jon Lewis, $10; Lelia Jane, A Very Gentle Lady, by Susie Carson and Larry Maisel, $14; Long Beach, A North Car-olina Town: Its Origin and History, by Wolfgang Furstenau, 364-page hard cover, $19.25; Reminiscences of Wilmington and Smithville-Southport 1848-1900, by Walter G. Curtis, $9; Southport Secrets, compiled by Donald K. Johnson, 88-page soft cover, $8; Southport (Smithville): A Chronology, Volume 1; Volume II, 1878-1920, $6; Volume III, 1920-1940, 248-page soft cover, $6; Volume IV, 1940-1970, $6; all volumes by Bill Reaves. All prices include tax. Add $3 shipping for each book. P.O. Box 10014, Southport, N.C. 28461-0014. For information, call (910) 457-0579, or visit www. southporthistoricalsociety.com.
STANLY COUNTY MUSEUM:
Images of America: Stanly County, by Douglas Buchanan, a pictorial history of the county, $18.99; Stanly County: The
Architectural Legacy of a Rural North Carolina County, by Donna Dodenhoff, $45. For more information contact the SCM, 245 E. Main St., Albemarle, N.C. 28001, or call (704) 986-3777.
The TOWN OF GRANITE FALLS is selling copies of the town’s Cen-tennial history book, Etched in Granite: The History of Gran-ite Falls, NC. The book contains more than 1,000 photographs and 11 chapters on the town including such topics as early history; town and government; education;
Burgess Chapel community; medi-cal, social and civic organizations; business and industry; family history; military; and churches. Etched in Granite costs $25 plus tax; shipping costs extra. Books can be purchased at the town
office or by calling (828) 396-3131.
WACHOVIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: Moravians in Europe and America 1415-1865: Hidden Seed and Harvest, by Chester S. Davis, tells the story from its
beginning in a hidden seed of believ-ers forced from their homes in
Bohemia and Moravia during the wars of the Counter Reformation, $8.31. The Wachovia Historical Society: 1895-1995, by Bradford L. Rauschenberg, $33.80. Prices include tax & shipping; Salem Remembrances, $11.49, includes tax & shipping. Contact the WHS, P.O. Box 20803, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27120.
The WALKERTOWN AREA HISTORI-CAL SOCIETY is selling Collection of Favorite Recipes, a compilation of 500 recipes submitted by past and present Walkertown area residents. The book costs $12 and can be purchased online at www. walkertownareahistoricalsociety. org; to pay by check, send $12 plus $3 shipping for each book to WAHS, PO Box 1183, Walkertown, NC 27051-1183.
WARREN COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: The Architecture of Warren County, North Caro-lina, by Kenneth McFarland. The cost is $45.00 plus $3.00 shipping. WCHA, PO Box 441 Warrenton, N.C. 25789. Copies may also be purchased at the North Carolina Museum of History gift shop.
THE WAYNE COUNTY HISTORI-CAL ASSOCIATION: People and
Plantations: Wayne County, North Carolina 1701-1860, by Emily Weil and Charles Ellis. This book documents the early history of Wayne County. Begin-ning in 1701, the book addresses John Lawson and his contribu-tions, then follows up with chap-ters on the horrible days of the Tuscarora Wars. It studies the lives of the early settlers and how they developed an agrarian econo-my and then then takes a look at antebellum plantations. Cost: $26, includes tax and shipping. Glimpses of Wayne County, North Carolina: An Architec-tural History, $25 (includes tax and shipping); this book traces the county’s architectural history from circa 1740 to the present. North Carolina: New Directions for an Old Land, An Illustrated
History, $25 (includes tax and shipping); A Place for Theodore, $17 (includes tax and shipping), a true story of the Civil War,
recounting the murder of Theodore Parkman, PH.D. After Sherman’s March: Goldsboro at the End of the Civil War, by Emily Weil, $30 (includes tax and shipping). Based on letters, diaries, and other artifacts along with family stories, this creative non-fiction book describes the arrival of Sherman and Union troops in Goldsboro; the end of the Civil War; and life during Reconstruction in this small Southern town. Cornwallis’ Campaign: Wilmington to Yorktown, by Emily Weil, $30 (includes tax and shipping.) This work of creative non-fiction follows Cornwallis’ army from the time it reached Wilmington to its surren-der at Yorktown, seen largely through the eyes of two young men caught up in those turbulent days. The association is also selling Wayne County Cemeteries, Vol. II, $53 (includes tax and shipping).
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This 400-page volume includes cemeteries in New Hope, Pikeville, Saulston, and Stoney Creek. The association is selling Wayne County Cemeteries, Vol. III, $53 (includes tax and shipping.) This 614-page volume includes ceme-teries and columbariums located in Goldsboro Township, including Willow Dale cemetery. Books may be ordered by contacting the Wayne County Museum at (919) 734-5023 or at waynecountymuseu@
bellsouth.net, by visiting www. waynecounty historicalnc.org/shop/shop.asp or by mail at WCHA, PO Box 665, Goldsboro, NC 27533-0665.
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA
HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION/SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM:
An Architect and His Times: Richard Sharp Smith, A
Retrospective. This attractive
48-page booklet was issued in
conjunction with an award-winning special exhibit about Smith and features rare photographs and ar-chitectural drawings of his designs, $4, includes tax; shipping $2 for the first copy, $1 for each addi-tional copy. Edward Buncombe and Buncombe County, by Col. Paul A. Rockwell with assistance of Dix Sarsfield. This 32-page booklet covers the life and death of Colonel Buncombe and describes his estate in Tyrell County, N.C. Cost $1, includes tax; shipping is $2 for the first copy, $1 for each additional copy; Haunted Asheville, by Joshua P. Warren. This soft-cover book is the only collection of stories about Asheville’s spookiest places and costs $14.95, including tax; shipping is $4. For inquiries, write to the Western North Carolina Historical Association/Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Rd., Asheville, NC 28801, or email smh@wnchistory.org.
Author Wilbur D. Jones of the WORLD WAR II WILMINGTON HOME FRONT HERITAGE COALI-TION announces the publication of “Football! Navy! War!” How Military “Lend-Lease” Players Saved the College Game and Helped Win World War II. As stated by the author’s website, you can learn more about how “the military linked with colleges during World War II to preserve the game and keep schools from closing, and utilized football’s rugged physical, mental, and competitive conditioning to prepare men for combat, boost morale, and help win the war.” Cost: $35 each, plus $5 shipping and handling for the first book, $1.50 each for each additional book. To order, visit www.wilburjones.com/book_football.php.
The HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS SECTION of the Office of Archives and History offers three new publications: Destitute Patriots: Bertie County in the War of 1812, by Gerald W. Thomas, examines the contributions and sacrifices of the citizens of Bertie County in the context of North Carolina’s preparations for and participation in what has been called the “Second War of U.S. Independence.” Militiamen and regular army troops from the county suffered greatly during war from a lack of basic military equipment and supplies. Of particu-lar note is the fact that many of these men did not receive their military pay until several years after the end of the war. Cost: $25.62 (paperback). A new, second revised edition of A History of African Americans in North Carolina, by Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley Wadelington, brings the story of
black North Carolinians from the colonial period through the historic presidential election of Barak Obama in 2008. Cost: $25.62 (paperback). Libro de Hechos de El Viejo Estado del Norte is a Spanish-language translation of the popular Old North State Fact Book. Cost: $22.42 (paperback). Note: All prices include North Carolina state sales tax and shipping.
Order these books from the Histori-cal Publications Section (FB), Office of Archives and History, 4622 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4622. For credit card orders call (919) 733-7442, ext. 0, or access the Publications Section’s secure online store at http://nc-historical-publications. stores.yahoo.net/. These titles are also available on Amazon.com.
The Historical Publications Section also publishes the North Carolina Historical Review. This quarterly journal offers articles that cover North Carolina and southern history from the colonial period to the present. Each issue also features numerous reviews of recent books about state, regional, and national history as well as an annual bibli-ography of books on North Carolina subjects or written by North Caro-linians. To subscribe, please contact the subscription manager, Trudy Rayfield, at trudy.rayfield@ ncdcr.gov or call (919) 733-7442, ext. 0.
The Historical Publications Section offers more than 190 North Caro-lina books, maps, and document facsimiles. For a free catalog, write to the address above; call (919) 733-7442, ext. 0; or e-mail Historical.Publications@ncdcr.gov.
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