FEDERATION BULLETIN A Newsletter of the Federation of North Carolina Historical Societies Volume 17, no. 2 June 1998

Internship Opportunity and Cindy Steele of A. C. listed; however. more detailed Reynolds High School in Asheville information is provided only for forthe project board entitled, Federation member organiza­ those organizations that submitted "Land of the Sky." The project tions will soon have an opportunity the completed infom1ationforms. dealt with the development of to submit proposals for a funded Please check listings for errors or westernNorth Carolina as a internship.The North Carolina ommissions. The web address is: recreation area. Literary and Historical Association http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us At the home page, click on will award grants to two graduate Web Page students in the public history "Who We Are" and then on program at North Carolina State "Affiliates." Alongwith the link to The Federation information is University. These students will the Federation is a link to "News now up and running on the on the fromAffliates of the Division." spend the academic year (approxi­ Archives and History web page. mately 300 hours) working with Organizations wishing to have the two organizations whose All member organizations are news items posted .here should submit them to the Federation proposals are chosen by the review committee. Information office and indicate that they should about the selection procedure and CONTENTS be posted on the web. deadlines will be sent out around t ' the first of June. In-state meetings and programs, p. 2 ■ North Carolina History Day In-state tours and festivals. Special Award Recipients p. 3 Out-of-state meetings and The Federation funded two I programs, p. 3 special prizes at the 1998 North 1 Out-of-state tours and festivals. p. 3 MAY Carolina History Day competition. Call for Papers. p. 4 The prizes, one each in the junior In-state exhibits, p. 4 and senior divisions, were awarded Out-of-state exhibits, p. 5 to students whose projects in­ Audio-visual, p. 5 Blackbeard T-shirts for Sale cluded elements of local history in Special appeals and their presentation. fundraisers, p. 5 The junior prize was awarded to Awards and fellowships, p. 5 The Historical Publications Daryl Allen, Brian Burton, Ryan Publications Section of the North Carolina Outlaw, and Michael Shields of New, p. 6 Division of Archives and History is HertfordCounty Middle School for Still available, pp. 6-15 selling Blackbeard T-shirts for$18 Summaryof events. p. 16 a project board entitled "AIDS: the plus $3 forshipping . North Caro­ Trojan Horse of the 20th Century." lina residents add 6% sales tax. To As part of their research, the order, send check or money order students interviewed a local to Historical Publications Section, resident whose familyhad been I 09 E. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC affected by AID�. The senior Next Bulletin Deadline: 27601-2807 or call (919) 733-7442. award was given to Claire Thorne August J

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS June 29-July 24, 1998: Sixth September 1998: The North Annual Old Salem/UN CG Carolina Genealogical Society is IN-STATE CONFERENCES, Historical Archaeology Summer sponsoring a full day workshop on MEETINGS AND PROGRAMS Field Study, co-sponsored by Old .. Maximizing Research in Wash­ Salem and UNCG, will be held at ington, D.C.," at the St. Raphael 1 The Archaeology and Historic two 19 "- century homes on Main Catholic Church, Raleigh, NC. Preservation Technology pro­ Street in Old Salem. Students and Registration fees are $25 for gram, sponsored by adults attending colleges or NCGS members; $30 for non­ Randolph Community universities (in good stand­ members. Registration deadline is College, has selected ing) are eligible to apply for July 15, 1998. Write to the the Mendenhall �1 ' three hours of graduate or NCGS. PO Box 1492, Raleigh. Plantation school­ ��,I •, undergraduate credit through· NC 27602-1492. house forits 1998 Summer UNCG. Registration deadline is Session restoration project. June 15, 1998. For registration October 1-3, Randolph Community College information, contact UNCG 1998: The U.S. students will investigate proper Division of Continual Learning at Life-Saving building techniques and consider 1-800-306-9033 or (336) 334- \ Service Historical circumstances particular to the 5414. Association will structure. For more information, " ...... · / hold its annual �...... �• •• ...... , ❖• contact the Mendenhall Plantation, Tryon Palace will be presenting meeting in 603 West Main St., Jamestown, the following Garden Lectures: Manteo. The program will include NC. (336) 454-3819. -July 11, 1998: "Gardening sessions on the history of the life­ with Heirloom Vegetables," Perry saving service in North Carolina, Join Old Salem in their upcoming Mathewes, curator of gardens, and the archaeology of shipwrecks on �pring and summer events: Julie Craig, section gardener. our coast, and works in progress to -June 7-12, 1998: Daily Life focuses on varieties of vegetables preserve life-saving stations. For in Early Salem: A Step Back in that grow well in eastern North more information,contact Joe Time. Learn about Moravian Carolina. Mobley. I 09 E. Jones St.. Raleigh. culture and the growth of a craft -August 8, J 998: "Gardens of NC 27601-2807, (9 I 9) 733-7442. and economic center in the Caro­ the Delaware Valley," Carlton lina Backcountry. Contact Joan Wood, Tryon Palace's horticultur­ Upcoming: UNC at Wilmington and David Dutcher at (336) 721- ist, reveals the beauty and diversity will host a symposium entitled, 7300. of Delaware Valley gardens. "The 1898 Wilmington Racial -July 4, 1998: 32nd Annual Contact Tryon Palace Historic Violence and Its Legacy," to be Torchlight Procession, bring a Sites & Gardens. PO Box I 007, held in Willl}ingtonOctober23- ·picnic supper. 9:00pm. Free. New Bern, NC 28563, (9 I 9) 514- 24, 1998. The symposium, spon­ Salem Square. 4900 or 1-800-767-1560. sored jointly by the university. the -July 4-5, 1998: Indepen­ Division of Archives and History, 1 dence Day Weekend. I 8 "- and July 18-19, 25-26 and August 15- the North Carolina Humanities 191"-century demonstrations and 16, 22-23; Bentonville Battle­ Council, and the Literary and interpretations of independence ground is sponsoring Summer Historical Association, is freeand celebrations in Salem. Saturday Living History Programs that open to the public. For more 9:00-5:00pm and Sunday 12:30- will present costumed interpreters information contact Dr. Melton 5:00pm. Old Salem Visitor Ticket demonstrating activities such as Mclaurin, University of North is required. Free to Friends of Old soldier life and musket demonstra­ Carolina at Wilmington, (910) Salem and members of MES DA. tions. For more details, write 962-3137. For more details, contact Old Bentonville Battleground, 5466 Salem, Box F, Salem Station, Harper House Road, Four Oaks, Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0346, NC 27524, (910) 594-0789. (336) 779-6190.

2 IN-STATE TOURS are $5 and are good for all three September 14-18, 1998: "Intro­ AND FESTIVALS days. Call (919) 728-5225 for duction to the Management of more information. Museum Collections Workshop," Tryon Palace Historic Sites & Smithsonian Institution, Washing­ Gardens is hosting the following Duke Homestead is hosting the ton, DC. Application deadline is upcoming events. For more details, following upcoming events.For June 15, 1998. Contact Bettie Lee, call (9 I9) 514-4900 or (800) 767- more details, call (919) 477-5498. Center for Museum Studies, MRC 1560. -July 25: Tobacco Harvest 427, Smithsonian Institution, -June 13-14, 1998: King's Festival, traditional tobacco Washington, DC 20560, (202) Birthday: Festival of Colonial harvesting and curing from I0- 357-3101. Music, celebrates the birthday of 4pm. King George III with 18'"­ November 8-19, 1998: Winedale century music and dances. -August 22: Herb Museum Seminar on Administra­ -June 15, 1998: The North Festival, displaying herb tion & Interpretation, Austin, Carolina Symphony Concert, uses, plant and craft TX. Application deadline is featuringmusic in celebration ◄.. J )._. sales, and workshops September 22, 1998. For applica­ with the king's birthday and from I0-4pm . tion information,contact Kit American colonial music. Neumann, Seminar Coordinator, -July 3-5, 1998: Memorial Texas Historical Commission, PO Day Celebration. His Majesty's OUT-OF-STATE Box 12276, Austin, TX 7871 L Royal Forces, the N.C. Highland CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, (512) 463-5756. Regiment, will re-create an 18'"­ AND PROGRAMS century camp on the Palace OUT-OF-STATE grounds with bagpipe music. TOURS AND FESTIVALS June 1-7, 1998: The American June 19-20, 1998: Ron Miller, of Institute for Conservation of June 21, 1998: Celebrate Father's Mississippi, and Bill Culverson, of Historic and Artistic Works Day at Gunston Hall, 11 :00am- Durham, will be guest speakers at Annual Meeting, "Disaster 3:00pm. Grandfathers and fathers the 4th annual '"Romance of the Preparedness, Response and are allowed freeadmission when Garden" tour sponsored by the Recovery," Arlington, VA. accompanied by their families. Hickory Landmarks Society, PO Contact the American Institute for Reservations required. Contact the Box 2341, Hickory, NC 28603, Conservation of Historic and hall at ( 703) 550-9220. (704) 322-4731. Artistic Works, 17 I 7 K. Street NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. September 13-18, 1998: The June 20, t 998: Family Day at 20006, (202) 452-9545. North Carolina Genealogical Reed Gold Mine, 9621 Reed Society is sponsoring a four-day Mine Road, Stanfield, NC 28163. June 5-7, J 998: Omohundo research program at the National Call (704) 721-4653 formore Institute of Early American Archives, Washington, DC. information. History and Culture will hold its Participants can visit the DAR 4th Annual Conference in Worces­ Library, the National Archives, the June 26-28, J 998: 38th Annual ter, MS. For details, Contact Library of Congress, or sightsee in Beaufort Old Home Tour and Omohundro Institute, PO Box our nation's capital. Registration Antiques Show and Sale is being 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187- and deposit deadline is July I, sponsored by the BeaufortHi stori­ 8781. 1998. For deposit and registration cal Association. The home tour information,write to the society, will be Friday and Saturday. The September 9-12, 1998:_ The 1998 PO Box 1492, Raleigh, NC antiques show will be at the AASLH Annual Meeting, "It's a 27602-1492. Crystal Coast Civic Center in Living: The Business of His­ Morehead City Friday to Sunday. tory," Sacramento, CA. Contact Tickets forthe home tour are $15 AASLH at (615) 255-2971. in advance and $18 on day of event. Tickets forthe antique show 11111111.!:1111,,,.-a.. ,, 3 CALL FOR PAPERS The American Historical years. For more details. contact the Association is accepting pro­ Museum of the Albemarle. (919) posals for its 1999 Annual 335-1453. The 1998 Meeting. The theme will be Mid-Atlantic "Diasporas and Migrations in St. John's Museum of Art will display the following upcoming Regional History." For further details, exhibits: Meeting of the contact John 0. Voll at (202) Through June 28, 1998: Invent­ Association for 687-0288. Living Historical ing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World, Farms and Agricultural The Omohundro Institute of a traveling exhibition displaying Museums will address the Early American History and works in landscapes by preeminent interpretations of environmental Culture invites proposals for American artists; and July 10- history through public programs papers for its Fifth Annual Confer­ September 6, 1998: Light of and exhibits at outdoor muse­ ence on June 4-6, 1999 at the Touch: Select Works on Paper ums and historic sites. Propos­ University of Texas, Austin, fromthe permanent collection of als should include a one-page Texas. Individual submissions the Morris Museum of Art in­ should include a proposal of no summary of each presentation cludes forty-one Southern works more than two pages and one-page on paper collection. For more and a resume of each presenter. curriculum vitae. Proposals for Deadline forproposals is July details, contact the museum at entire panels should be submitted (910) 763-0281. 10, 1998. Send proposals to in one packet by the de�ignated Daniel Freas, Site Administra­ · organizer with a one-page curricu­ North Carolina Museum of tor, Meadowcroft Museum of lum vitae foreach presenter and a History will display the Rural Life, 40 I Meadowcroft page concerningeach presentation. following upcoming exhibits: Road, Avella, PA 15312, (724) Deadline is September 18, 1998. Through June 28, 1998: "With 587-3412. Send 14 copies of each proposal All Necessary Attention: The to John J. McCusker , Program Artistry of Thomas Day�" and The Searle Center for Teach­ Chair, Fifth Annual OIEAHC "Face to Face: Portraits of North Conference, Trinity University, ing Excellence at Northwestern Carolina Notables" features Dept. of History, 315 Stadium paintings of historic North Caro­ University is seeking essays on Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78212. teaching by established scholars linians who contributed to the character of our state; Through and researchers. All essays must IN-STATE EXHIBITS June 29, 1998: The Press in address two questions: What �" «, North Carolina do you expect your students to Through June 7, 1998: Across 1 -�. - History, commemo- be able to do as a result of the Creek from Salem: The • •. ·• 1 •• ,r: r, rates the I 25th having taken your course? and Story of Happy Hill, 1816 to < ...... J..._, anniversary of How do you construct or 1952. This exhibit focuses on ., NCPA's founding ' :;: I ' .,,r:·�1,...·I ; conduct your course or courses African American's everyday life Through August at home, work, church, and play. .. � "-�· · - . . !A to help and encourage your ,.• <-J:!° 15, 1998: North Contact The Gallery at Old students to obtain that knowl­ Carolina in the Spanish­ Salem, (910) 721-7300. edge or develop those abilities? American War commemorates the Proposal deadline is July 15, I 00th anniversary of the Spanish- Through June 7, 1998: North American War featuringthe 1998. For details, contact James Carolina Women Making His­ artifactsof Ensign W. Bagley and M. Lang/Kenneth R. Bain, tory is a traveling exhibit that Lieutenant W. Shipp who died in Searle Center for Teaching uncovers the lives of Native the conflict;Opened in April: Excellence, Northwestern American, African American, and Health and Healing Experiences Univ., 627 Dartmouth Pl., European American women who in North Carolina. For more Evanston, IL 60208-4181, lived and worked in North Caro­ information,contact the museum at (847) 467-2338. lina over the past fourhundred (919) 715-0200.

4 OUT-OF-STATE can be purchased from the Na­ Calli11g for more old photos. EXHIBITS tional Assembly of State Arts The publisher of Echoes of Agencies, IO IO Vermont Ave., Edgecombe have been so pleased Through June 21, 1998: NW, Suite 920. Washington, DC with Monika Fleming's work. and Doctors at the Gate: The 2005. (202) 347-6352. with the response of the public. U.S. Public Health they have asked the local author to Service at Ellis Island SPECIAL APPEALS produce another book. Anyone examines the role of the AND FUNDRAISERS with old photos should contact the service in the medical Edgecombe County Arts Council. inspection of arriving Old Salem Oral History 130 Bridgers Street, Tarboro, NC immigrants, with empha­ Project. The director of African 27886. sis on Ellis Island during American Programs forOld its peak years. This Salem is searching for photo­ AWARDS exhibit will be on display at the graphs and objects dated before AND FELLOWSHIPS National Museum of Health and 1950 fromAfrican American Medicine, Armed Forces Institute familiesin and around Salem. The N.C. Center for Nonprofits of Pathology, Walter Reed Army Anyone with informationmay call is sponsoring the Fourth Annual Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Mel White at (910)721-7364, or Nonprofit Sector Steward For museum hours and directions Ms. Georgianna Paige McCoy at Awards. Nominees must be call (202) 782-2200. (910)723-1546. 50 I (c )(3) nonprofitsincorporated and doing business in North Through October 1998: Cities of Items needed for Foundation. Carolina that have shown them­ the Dead: Life in New Orleans Historic Salisbury Foundation selves to be leaders in keeping the Cemeteries, explores local cem­ wants antiques; furniture;tools, public trust and who are members eteries and the individuals inte­ lawnmowers, TVs, any kind of of the N .C. Center forNonprofit s. grally connected with them through household goods in good condition; Awards will be given to nonprofit photographs. This exhibit is on Christmas decorations; good, clean organizations only. Nominations display at the Louisiana State clothes and shoes or boots; infant must be postmarked by June 29, Museum. For more details, contact equipment; vehicles; tubs, toilets; 1998. For details, contact Trisha the museum, PO Box 2448, New sinks, old gas space or morning Lester, 1110 Navaho Drive, Suite Orleans, LA 70176, 1-800-568- heaters; officeequipment; personal 200, Raleigh, NC 27609-7322, 6968 or (504) 568-6968. computers; exercise equipment; (9 I 9) 790-1555. pictures and paintings; old post AUDIO-VISUAL cards and photographs; and The Organization of American anything else no longer needed. For Historians is accepting submis­ Now available on video tape, informationon how to donate sions forthe following awards: "A LiteraryPortrait of Raleigh," items, contact the foundation at 1999 Elliot Rudwick Prize for an exploration of Raleigh's literary (704) 636-0103. books on interactions between character by the area's most minority groups, deadline Septem­ prominent authors. Cost is $10.95. Items for sale. The Lewisville ber 1, 1998; 1999 Merle Curti The video is available at the Historical Society is selling Award in American Intellectual Raleigh City Museum Gift Shop custom woven coverlets and History, deadline forbooks pub­ and Quail Ridge Books, (919) 832- companion booklets that describe lished in 1998-October 1, 1998; 3775. the history and spirit of Lewisville. and the 1999 Ray Allen Billington Each coverlet cost$40 and the Prize fora work on American New video: "The Artsand companion booklets cost$ IO each. Frontier history, deadline October Children: A Success Story" Proceeds wi11 be used to purchase 1, 1998. For information, contact demonstrates the impact of quality historical markers. To purchase a the Organization of American arts education on student success coverlet, call Darriell Hauser at Historians, 112 North Bryan featuringthe actress Meryl Streep. 945-2493, or send check to Street, Bloomington, IN 4 7408- Handouts are included with video. Lewisville Historical Society, PO 4199, 812-855-731 l. Cost of video and kit is $19.95 and Box 242, Lewisville, NC 27023. 5 ■ $24.95(p). AASLH members fall '98 will be $52.50. For more receive a 20% discount. To order information. call (704) 524-9758. call (805) 499-9774 or mail to Order Dept., 2455 Teller Rd .. Roads to Jamestow11. A View Thousand Oaks. CA 91320. and Review of the Old Town. by Southern Women in the C. Yvonne Bell Thomas. is Revolution, 1776-1800, by available for$17 including tax Cynthia A. Kierner.brings to­ plus $3 for shipping. Order by gether unpublished documents and mail from the Historical interpretive essays to explore how Jamestown Society. PO Box 512. women experienced and under­ Jamestown. NC 27282. stood the American Revolution. PUBLICATIONS This 224-page softcover is avail­ The followingbooks are NEW LISTINGS able for $34.95 fromthe Univer­ available fromthe Edgecombe sity of South Carolina Press. 718 County Arts Council. I JO Devine Street. Columbia, SC Federation 29208. 800-768-2500. Bridgers Street. Tarboro. NC Member Organizations 27886: Image.-.,�f America: Roanoke Revisited, a mod­ Edgecombe County, Volume //. The followingbooks are ernizedversion edited by lebame by Monica S. Fleming. 128-page available fromthe Carteret County houston and Barbara Hird, tells the paperbound, $21 inc)udes tax. Historical Society, PO Box 481, story of the firstEnglish settle­ shipping and handling: Mabrey Morehead City, NC 28557. (252) ments in ttie New World and the Bass�" Tarboro.from /9J0-/990 247-7533: Kith and Kin of fabled lost colony of Roanoke (Including Twenty-two Articles Carteret County, by Simpson and Island. To order send $6 plus $2 by Spencer Bass), edited by shipping and handling to Mrs. Sanders, revised edition, $25 plus Roland Taylor. $24 includes tax, Virginia Robertson, 40 I Shady 6% sales tax: History of Carteret Circle Drive, Rocky Mount, NC shipping and handling. County Newspapers, by Ruth 27803-1714. Barbour. $5 plus 6% sales tax: The Anson County Historical Twelve Historic Homes of Researching the Under­ Society is offeringthe following Carteret County, by Joan Allen. ground Railroad. produced by the volumes: Cemeteries ,�fAnson $2.50 plus 6% sales tax: Early History Officeof the National County, Volume I, by Haynes Carteret County Willis, by Park Service, is available free to Dunlap and the Anson County Rebecca Sanders. revised edition, educators. researchers. historical Historical Society, $50; The $25 plus 6% sales tax. organizations, and historic sites. Historyof Anson County, I 750- Write to UGRR, History Office, 1976, by Mary Louise Medley, National Park Service, NRHE Other Publishers 2280/NC 400, 1849 C Street, $40; and Ea:'ltview Cemetery, by Washington, DC 20240. A. L. Gray, Sylvia Hill Gray, The AltaMira Press in Grace Allen Liles, and Evalyn A. conjunction with the American PUBLICATIONS Huntley, $50. Please add $4 for Association forState and Local STILL AVAILABLE shipping and handling. Send History are offeringthe following orders to Anson County Histori­ volumes: Editing Historical Documents: A Handbook of Federation cal Society. 206 East Wade Practice, by Michael E. Stevens Member Organizations Street, Wadesboro. NC 281 70. and Steven Burg, $24.95(p) and $49.00(h); NearbyH istory,by The Macon County Historical • · Heritage of Macon County, David E. Kyvig and Myron A. Society is currently taking orders Volume I is available fromThe Marty, $22.95(p); Recording Oral for The Heritage of Mac,m Macon County Historical Society. History.by Valerie Raleigh Yow, County, Volume II. Pre-publica­ PO Box 822. Franklin, NC $2 I .95(p) and $48.00(h): and tion cost is $45 plus $4.50 for 28744, (704) 524-9758. Landscapes and Gardens for shipping and handling and $2. 70 Hi.'ltoric Buildings, by Rudy J. for N.C. tax. Publication cost after Favretti and Joy Putman Favretti,

6 The Fort Branch Battlefield Religion and Education in The Chapel Hill Historical Commission announces the second Martin County, I 774-1974. by Society and the North Carolina printing of "Martin County Francis M. Manning and W.H. Botanical Garden has recently heir During the Civil War," by James Booker. contains over 140 church publish a new book. Chapel Hill H. McCallum, M.D. The 188-page historians. lists of schools and and Elisha Mitchell The Bota­ hard cover provides excellent instructors and many pictures. The nist. This new book is compiled civilian and military accounts of 331-page hardcover is available with jotted observations of various the War as it affectedthe people of for $20 plus 6% sales tax for N.C. sites in Chapel Hill made by Elisha Martin County. Cost is $20 plus residents from the Martin County Mitchell. The book is available for $4 for shipping. To order by mail. Historical Society Book Sales, Box $12.50 at the Historical Society make check payable to Fort 468. Williamston. NC 27892. and the North Carolina Botanical Branch BattlefieldCommission . Garden: 9919)942-9320. PO Box 355 Hamilton. NC 27840. The following books are available from the Yadkin County Yadkin County: The First One The followingbooks are Historical and Genealogical Hundred Years. by Frances H. available fromthe Onslow County Society. Frances H. Casstevens. Casstevens. includes more than Historical Society. PO Box 5203. President. PO Box 1250. two hundred photographs fromthe Jacksonville, NC 28540: Markers Yadkinville. NC 27055: Heritage archives of the Yadkin County of Time-Cemeterie."i of Onslow of Yadkin County, by Frances H. Historical & Genealogical Society County.softcover volumes for $24 Casstevens. 765-page 1981 and from local family albums. and each. includes tax. shipping and edition. $50 plus $2.50 for ship­ combines them with concise. handling; The Battle of New ping and $3 sales tax for N.C. compelling captions to tell the River. by L. J. Kimball. softcover: residents; Historical Architecture story of Yadkin county from1850 $20. includes tax. postage and of Yadkin County. by Lewis to 1950. From old photographs of handling. Brumfield, 170-page 1987 edition, log cabins to portraits of wealthy $35 plus $2 for shipping and $2.10 familiesin front of white-column The followingbooks are sales tax for N .C. residents: mansions. from snapshots of available from the Yadkin County Yadkin 's Ancestors: A Collection farming families to group shots of Historical and Genealogical of Pedigree Charts, by V. M. 1930 and 1940s spo11s teams. the Society. PO Box 1250. Seiders. F. H. Casstevens, & A. L. images presented here bring Yadkinville. NC 27055: Voices Mackie. V. I. 230-pages; V. 2. Yadkin County's firstone hundred From Cemetery Hill: The Civil 237-pages: V. 3. 225-pages. $20 years to life. the 128-page hook War Diary, Reports and Letters per volume, $2 shipping and $1.20 costs $ I 6.99 from Arcadia. One of Colonel William Henry sales tax for N .C. residents: $50 Washington Center. Suite 304, Asbury Speer. by Allen Paul all three volumes, $3.25 shipping Dover, NH 03820; (603)743- Speer. 203-page softcover, $19.95 and $3 sales tax for N.C. residents. 4266/742-5184. plus $2 for shipping and $1.20 sales tax for N.C. residents; The Forestry History Society, Inc. The Mecklenburg Historical Civil War and Yadkin County, is offeringthe followingthree titles Association has recently reprinted North Carolina, by Frances H. in the Forest History Society V. V. McNitt's CHAIN OF Casstevens. 272-page hardcover, Issues Series. The titles are ERROR and the Mecklenburg available for $6.95 each plus $2 $45_plus $2.50 shipping and $2.70 Declarations of Independence: A forshipping: American Forests: sales tax forN.C. residents. A History of Resiliency and New Study of Manu.,·cript."i, Their Recovery, by Douglas W. Use, Abuse, and Neglect. This Wilmington Furniture, I 720- MacCleery; Newsprint: Canadian book is the most thorough defense 1860, by John Bivins. is available Supply and American Demand, of the authenticity of the coritro­ for $16, from the Historic by Thomas R. Roach; and versial declaration in which. Wilmington Foundation, 209 Dock America's Fires: Management on according to a long-held local Street, Wilmington, NC 2840 I. Wildlands and Forests, by tradition, the citizen ·s of Stephen J. Pyne. Mecklenburg County declared their independence from great Britain on

7 May 20. 1775. more than a year sive study of the history of dwell­ book. Cherokee Indian lore a11d before the Continental Congress ings. fam1 structures. commercial Smoky Mountain Stories, includ­ took similar action in Philadelphia. buildings, churches. schools. ing information about Macon McNitt argues forcefully that our industries. and the people associ­ County's historyand its founding knowledge of the circumstances ated with them. After March 1997, fathers. the Silers. The 112-page and wording of the declaration is the volume will be available at a book (reprinted in 1980) 1s $7.95. based on written records still cost of$47.70 from the Martin plus $1.50 for shipping and extant in the Southern Historical County. handling from the Macon County Collection at The University of Historical Society. PO Box 822. North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Moravian Archives has Franklin. NC 28744. or (704 )524- rather than. as is usually asserted, published three volumes that 9758. the faultymemory of elderly men. comprise the firstthree chapters of A brief biographical sketch of each the proposed 250th anniversary Historic Burke: An Architec­ of the 27 signers has been added to history of the Moravian· Church in tural Site."i Inventory ,�f Burke McNitt's text. Cost of the 145- America. Southern Province. County, by J. Randall Cotten, page book is$25 .00 plus $3.50 Written by C. Daniel Crews. Suzanne Pickens Wylie and Millie postage and handling. Copies may archivist and church historian·. they M. Barbee. traces Burke County's be ordered from: JoeBrickey, tell of the beginnings of Wachovia, built environment-its plantation 6826 Old Forge Road. Charlotte. fromits firstsettlement of homes. roads. mills. and even NC 28226. Checks should be Bethabara in 1753 through the modern suburban and commercial made payable to the Mecklenburg turmoil of the Revolutionary War strip development. Published by Historical Association. and the peace of 1783. These the Historic Burke Foundation in booklets are available fromthe 1987. the 217-page volume is Edgecombe County Arts Moravian Book and Gift Shop. available fromthe Historic Burke Council has announced publication 614 South Main Street, Winston­ Foundation. PO Box 915, of Echoes of Edgecombe: A Salem, NC 27101; (910) 723- Morganton. NC 28655. Pictorial History of Edgecomhe 6262: County.by Monika S. Fleming. - Vi.I/agesof the Lord:; The North Carolina Research: The paperbound. 150-pagc book Moravians Come to Carolina, 44 Genealogyand local Hi."itory, by contains short essays on pages, tells how dedicated mem­ Helen F. M. Leary. is the updated. Edgecombe's history. civic and bers of the church carved settle­ revised edition of the book that set social life.economics and medi­ ments out of wilderness in the the standard for state research cine. and all are illustrated with Carolina colony of the 1750s. guides with its award-winning photos from public and private - My Name Shall Be There: 1980 first edition. The 1996 collections. Echoes ofEdgecomhe The Founding of Salem, 58 edition has beenreformatted and is available fromthe Edgecombe pages, recounts the Moravians' re indexed for greater ease of use. County Arts Council for $ I 6. 99, effortsto build their central and the book includes infonnation plus $1.02 foreach volume community. about additions to the North ordered. Make checks payable to - Through Fiery Trials: The Carolina State Archives, finding ECC AC, 130 Bridgers Street, Revolutionary War and the aids, a new chapter on personal Tarboro. NC 27886. Moravians, 60 pages. is the story computers, and a completely of the Moravian Church in the revised chapter on research Martin Architectural Heri­ American war forindependence. strategies for both novice and tage: The Historic Structures of a Buffetedby Tory and Patriot alike, advanced genealogists everywhere. Rural North Carolina County, by members of the church held to their For informationon how to order, Thomas R. Butchko. traces the religious principles in the shadow contact the North Carolina Genea­ architectural heritage of the county of war. logical Society, PO Box 1492, frotr1 1700 until 1946. Some 500 Raleigh, NC 27602. photographs trace the county's The Macon County Histori­ building forms,traditions and cal Society has available copies of Simple Treasure."i: The styles. The book is a comprehen- Margaret Redding Siler's 1938 Architectural Legacy lJfSurry County, by Laura A. W. Phillips, 8 lists 638 historically and architec­ 200 photographs and maps of the handling. from the Cape Fear turally significant structures by area and vividly portrays the saga Museum. 814 Market Street. township, with an overview of the of Catawba County's beginnings. Wilmington. NC 28401-4 73 I. architectural history of Surry To order send a check or money (9 I 0) 341-4350. Also available hy County. In addition, this 294-page order for $29.95. plus$ 1.80 NC mail for $5.50 is a 24-page book contains 650 photographs, a sales tax and$2 for postage and guidebook to the long-tenn exhibit. glossary of architectural terms, handling, to The Catawbans. Waves and Current.,;. A new hook. and an index. Simple Treasures Catawba County, PO Box 389. A Boat.for All Seas: The costs$33, plus$3 for postage and Newton. NC 28658. Simmons Sea-Skiff. by museum handling fromthe Surry County guest curator David Carnelland Historical Society, PO Box 70, Forest Pharmacy: Medicinal curator Barbara Rowe. reproduces Siloam, NC 27047. Plants in American Forestsis the many photographs and objects third title in the Forest History included in the exhibit. The volume The Historyand Architecture Society Issues Series. The book is available for$ 7. of Lee County, North Carolina, traces the history of North Ameri­ by J. Daniel Pezzoni (1995), can plant medicines fromthe The following booksare features Lee County's iron fur­ eighteenth century to the present. available from the Gaston County naces, coal mines, brownstone For information and price, contact Historical Society. William N. quarries, brick plants, potteries, the Forest History Society. 70 I Craig. Treasurer. 315 Union-New naval stores. and cotton, tobacco. Vickers Avenue, Durham, NC Hope Road. Gastonia. NC 28056: and lumber operations. Also 2770 I, (919) 682-9319. Our Kin. by Mile� Hoffman. included are log and framehouses, reprinted fromthe 1915 edition. Greek Revival and Victorian The Wachovia Historical $20: The County of Gaston: Two farmhouses, eclectic houses. Society: 1895-/995 documents the Centuries of a North Carolina schools. churches. and industrial remarkable history of the society. Region. by Robert Cope and buildings. This hardbound volume Bradford L. Rauschenberg, Manly Wade Wellman.$10.50: is available for $40. plus $5 director of research for Old Salem and The Complete 1850 Cen.'ius shipping and handling, from the and the Museum of Early Southern of Gaston County, North Caro­ Railroad House Historical Asso­ Decorative Arts, searched out and lina, $16 , and Gaston County, ciation. PO Box I023. Sanford. organized evidence frommany North Carolina Marriage Bollds NC 27331-1023. Make checks sources to compile this story of and Licenses ... /848-1888. $18 , payable to the Railroad House Wachovia Historical Society. The both compiled by·Goodnight. Bell. Historical Association Book book costs$30 plus six percent and Carpenter. Committee. state sales tax and$2 shipping and handling fromthe Wachovia The Battle ,�f New Garde" Greensboro, An Architectural Historical Society, PO Box I 03 I0, ( I995 reprint.$7.50). by Algie I. Record. by Marvin A. Brown Winston-Salem, NC 27108. Newlin, is the little-known story of ( 1995), is available for$34.95, one of the most important "minor plus six percent sales tax and$4 The Cape Fear Museum and battles" of the Revolutionary War. per book for shipping, from St. John's Museum of Art have Cane Creek: Mother ofMeeti1t/f\. Preservation Greensboro, Inc., PO published Time, Talent, Tradition: ( 150 pages. paperback, $ 13 ). by Box 13136. Greensboro, NC Five Essays on the Cultural Bobbie T. Teague, is a history of 27415. History of the Lower Cape Fear Cane Creek Friends Meeting. This Region, North Carolina. Edited group provided inspiration and The Catawbans: Crofters of a by Janet Seapker, the I 09-page, leadership for the establishment of North Carolina County, by Gary softcovervolume provides an many other Friends Meetings in R. Freeze, is the first of a two­ overviewof the 250-year history of North Carolina and elsewhere, and volume work that tells the stories Wilmington, North Carolina and . Cane Creek Friends Meeting of county pioneers fromthe mid­ the Lower Cape Fear region. Time. remains a strong Quaker presence eighteenth century. This 424-page, Talent. Tradition costs $14, today. These volumes and a list of hard-cover county history contains including tax, shipping, and other society publications are

9 ■ available from the North Carolina Dr. Josephus Wells Hall: A The Battle of New Bern and Friends Historical Society. PO Box Ma11 of E11ergyand E11terprise, Related Sites in Cra11e11 Co1111ty. 8502, Greensboro. NC 27419. by Sara Aull and Mary Brandon, N.C., /861-1865 is an in-depth documents Hall's life and provides look at the battle of New Bern. All sale proceeds will benefit the New The Moore County Historical a history of the 1820s Hall House. Bern Historical Society's battle­ Association has published a new The hardbound book is available fieldpreservation project. The edition of Sand in My Shoes (332 for$21.20 (tax included) at the volume sells for$IO fromthe pages. softcover). by Katharine Hall House or from the Historic historical society. 510 Pollock Ball Ripley. First published in Salisbury Foundation. PO Box Street. New Bern. NC 28563. For 1931. this book tells of a young 4221, Salisbury. NC 28145-422 I, more informationcall (919) 638- woman's adventures and misad­ (704) 636-0103. 8558. ventures in trying to establish a peach orchard in the Sandhills in The Heritage of Union Notes on the Movement of the the 1920s. The association also has County, North Carolina, 1842- 14th North Carolina Regiment, published My Pee Dee River Hills 1992, edited by Virginia Kendrick, by Thomas J. Watkins. transcribed (225 pages, softcover), by Chris is available from the Carolinas fromthe original with introduction Florance, a book based upon the Genealogical Society. PO Box by Jane P. Cunningham. is avail­ early life of the author, who grew 397, Monroe. NC 28111. The book able for $12 from the Anson up in the Sandhills. Each book is costs$50, plus $3 sales tax (unless County Historical Society. 206 available for$I 4 . 75 plus $1.25 for mailed out of state). and $5 for East Wade Street. Wadesboro. NC postage from the Moore County shipping and handling. The 512- 28170. Historical Association, PO Box page, hardbound volume is printed 324. Southern Pines. NC 28388, on acid-freepaper and contains Culture Town: Life in (910) 692-2051. 875 family histories. It also Raleigh�.. African American Communities, by Linda Simons­ includes informationon eighty Henry(oral history) and Linda Memories of New Bern: An churches. thirty-one clubs and Harris Edmisten (architectural Oral Hi.'>tory. by Emily Wilson. organizations. a general history, history), utilizes oral history and The book is available at a cost of local history articles, a surname architectural survey to show $14. 95 plus $4 forshipping and index and an index of contributors. contributions made by eight handling fromthe New Bern communities to Raleigh's cultural Historical Society, PO Box 119, Catawba County Historical development. Copies are available New Bern, NC 28563. (919) 638- Association has published A for$35 from the Raleigh Historic 8558. Make checks payable to the Confederate Remembers North­ Districts Commission office,222 society. ern Virginia: George Rabb, West Hargett Street, or by mail for $38.50 (includes shipping and Catawba CountySoldier, a fifty­ handling) from PO Box 829, Three Southern Families, by page, soft-covervolume edited by Century Station, Raleigh, NC Lewis J. Hardee, Jr., traces the Pitt Rabb's great-niece, Newton native 27602. County and Carteret County lines Rebecca Ikerd Alghrary. The book of Hardee, .Jones and Davis sells for$5 fromthe Catawba Stanly County: The Architec·­ familiesfrom Colonial days to the County Historical Association, PO tural Legacy of a Rural North present. The 400-page. hardbound Box 73, Newton, NC 28658. Carolina County , 384 pages with book contains 118 photographs. an about 500 photographs, costs index. and a bibliography. The A revised edition ofCap'n $37. IO including tax, fromthe lives and events described are Charlie and the lights of the Albemarle-Stanly County Historic placed within the context of North Lower Cape Fear, by Ethel Preservation Commission, Snuggs Carolina history. For information Herring, is available for$I 0, plus House, 112 North Third Street, on how to obtain a copy of the $2 forpostage and handling, from Albemarle, NC 2800 I. Add $5 for book, contact the Southport the Southport Historical Society, postage and handling for mail Historical Society, 50 I North 50 I North Atlantic Avenue, orders. For more informationcall Atlantic Avenue, Southport,NC Southport, NC 28461. the commission at (704) 983-7316. 28461.

IO Plain-Style: The Work of Historical Society. PO Box 5203. payable to the Malcolm Blue 18th and 19th Ce11tury Craftsmen Jacksonville. NC 28540. Historical Society. In Moore County, North Caro­ lina. a catalog by Ray Owen with Chatham County 1771-1971. North Carolina Architecture. Keitt Akin. John Bivens. John by Wade Hampton Hadley. Doris with text by Catherine Bishir and Flowers, Sam Ragan, Quincy Goertch Horton, and Nell Craig photographs by Tim Buchman. Scarborough. Don Schulte. and Strowd. is available for $20, plus may be ordered fromthe Historic Charles Zug. is available for $1.20 (N.C. residents) sales tax Preservation Foundation of North' $12.50, plus $1.50 for postage. and $3 for shipping and handling. Carolina. PO Box 27644, Raleigh. from the Moore County Historical The Architectural Heritage of NC 27611-7644 for $59.95. plus Association, PO Box 324, South­ Chatham County, North Caro­ shipping. handling. and sales tax. ernPines, NC 28388. The soft lina, by Rachel Osburnand Ruth For more information call the cover catalog contains fifty-four Seldin-Sturgill and edited by foundation at 919-832-3652. pages and seventy-fivephoto ­ Marjoire Ruth Hudson. is avail­ graphs. able for $35 plus $3 for postage Through the Years with Jane and handling. Make checks and John Robinson. by Marie The Society of North Carolina payable to the Chatham County Beatty. Shirley Beatty. and Pauline Archivists has published a second and mail to PO Box 913, G. Drum. may be ordered fromthe edition of Archival and Manu­ Pittsboro. NC 27312. Catawba County Historical script Repositorie.� in North Association for$35. plus $2 for Carolina: A Directory (1992). A Guide to the Manuscript postage and handling. Checks This 149-page directory identifies Collections of the Presbyterian made payable to the Catawba and describes 133 repositories in Church, U.S.A.. by Robert County Historical Association North Carolina with archival or Benedetto with the assistance of should be sent to CCHA. PO Box manuscript holdings. Member Betty K. Walker, is a valuable 73. Newton. NC 28658. The price is $15. plus $2 for postage guide to the documentary heritage volume focuses on the Robinson and handling; nonmember price is and tradition of Southern clan of the Sherrills Ford-Terrell $20. plus $2 for postage and Presbyterianism. The guide is Community in Catawba County. handling. All orders must be available for $45 plus $4 for prepaid; make checks payable to shipping and handling fromthe Catawba County: An Archi­ Margaret M. Hofmann and mail to Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). tectural Hi.�tory. a limited. hard­ PO Box 446, Roanoke Rapids, NC Department of History, PO Box cover edition. has more than 200 27870. 849, Montreat, NC 28757, (704) pages and 400 black-and-white 669-7061. Make checks payable to photographs depicting the lifestyles Onslow County Court Min­ PC (U.S.A.), Department of of the county's residents through utes, Vol. I (1732-1743), Vol. II History. two centuries. The book costs (1744-1754), Vol. Ill (1755- $31.95 from the Catawba County 1765), and Vol. IV (1766-1775) The History of Aberdeen, Museum of History or Peoples are available fromthe Onslow North Carolina, written by Bank locations. County Historical Society, PO Box Thomas and Emma Richardson in 5203, Jacksonville, NC 28540, 1976 forthe Malcolm Blue Sweet Union: An Architec­ (919) 347-5287. Each volume Historical Society, has been tural and Historical Survey ,�f costs $17.50. The Heritage of reprinted. Copies are available for Union County, N.C., by Suzanne Onslow Cou11ty, North Carolina $30. plus $3 for postage and Pickens, is available from the contains family histories, a county handling for each volume. Blue's Monroe-Union Historic Properties history presented through old Farm Cookery is a collection of Commission for $35. plus $5 for photographs and newspaper early nineteenth-century recipes, postage and handling. Requests for articles, a pictorial honor section, with text by Celeste Sponenburg the book should be sent to Monroe­ and a section dealing with the and illustrations by Susan Baer, Union Historic Properties Com­ federal government's1941 acquisi­ both of Pinehurst. Included is a mission. PO Box 282, Monroe, tion of land for the Marine Corps brief history of the Malcolm Blue NC 28 I 11; make checks payable to bases of Camp Lejeune and New family. The cookbook is available the County of Union. River Air Station. This hardbound, for$11, including postage and 515-page book may be ordered for handling. The above volumes may Volume II of The Heritage of $45 , plus postage, handling. and be ordered fromthe Malcolm Blue Cherokee County, North Caro­ tax. For information on how to Historical Society. PO Box 603, lina is available fromthe Cherokee order contact the Onslow County Aberdeen, NC 28315; make checks County Historical Museum. This

11 volume contains family histories telephone number to the museum made payable to the Yadkin written by past and current resi­ with a check for $29.95. plus $3 County Historical Society, PO Box dents of the county and includes for shipping (state sales tax does 1250. Yadkinville. NC 27055. This many old photographs. The cost is not apply). For more information publication project received $47.70 (including sales tax), plus contact the museum at 1116 assistance from the federation's $4 for shipping and handling for Highway 17 South, Elizabeth City, revolving fund. each book ordered. Marble & NC 27909, or 919-335-2987. The Log: The History & Architecture Museum of the Albemarle received Other Publishers of Cherokee County, North a loan from the federation's Carolina, with essay, inventory, revolving fund to assist with this A Guide to the Historic Architec­ and photography by Michael Ann publication. ture of Eastern North Caroli11a. Williams is available for$21.20, by Catherine Bishir and Michael plus $2.90 for shipping and The History of Jackson Southern,examines historic handling foreach book ordered. A County, edited by Max R. Will­ buildings and structures in forty­ Pictorial History of Cherokee iams. is available for $20, plus oneNorth Carolina counties. The County,a limited, hard-covered $2.50 forpostage and handling. 448-page guide costs $35 (cloth) edition, has more than 500 old The 674-page volume may be or $19.95 (paper) from the photographs that depict the ordered from the Jackson County Univeristy of North Carolina county's history. The volume costs Historical Association. PO Box Press. PO Box 2288, Chapel Hill, $53 (including sales tax), plus $4 173, Sylva, NC 28779. NC 27515-2288. Domestic forshipping and handling for each postage is $3.50 for the first book, book ordered. Make checks The Davidson County Histori­ plus $.75 for each additional book. payable to the Cherokee County cal Association has published · Historical Museum, 205 Peachtree Building the Backcountry: An North Carolina Street, Murphy, NC 28906. Architectural History of Division of Davidson County, North Caro­ Archives and History The Southport Historical lina, by Paul Baker Touart. The Society has published Southport: book costs $34, including postage, A revised edition of "In Some A Chronology, Volume II, 1878- handling, and tax; to order send Foreign Field: Four Briti.'ih 1920, by Bill Reaves. The book your name, address. and telephone Graves a11d Submarine Warfare number along with your check (324 pages, including photographs on the North Carolina Outer and illustrations) contains a (made payable to the association) Ba11ks"by L. Vanloan complete index and is an excellent to Davidson County Historical source of historical and genealogi­ Assn., PO Box 404, Lexington, Naisawald. contains new material cal information. To order this NC 27292. on the discovery of the volume, forward $20, plus $2 for Bedfordshire's remains offCape postage and handling, to the The Architectural Heritage of Lookout in the late 1970s. In­ Southport Historical Society, 50 J Greenville, North Carolina, cluded are photographs of the North Atlantic Avenue, Southport, edited by Michael Cotter, is Bedfordshire, members of her NC 28461. To obtain Southport available for $29.95, plus $1.50 crew, the German submarine U- (Smithville): A Chronology, sales tax and $2 shipping and 558 and the British cemetery on Volume I /520-1887(129 pages of handling. Orders may be sent to Ocracoke. The 99-page paperback early Lower Cape Fear history), the Greenville Area Preservation also by Bill Reaves, send$15, plus Association, PO Box 673, is available for $10. plus for$3 for $2 for postage and handling. The Greenville, NC 27835. shipping. price for both books, when ordered together, is $30, plus $4 for The Historical Architecture "A Lasting Gift of Heritage : postage and handling. of Yadkin County, North Caro­ A History of the NC Society for lina, based on an architectural the Preservatio11 of Antiquities, On the Shores of the survey by Kirk Mohney and 1939-1974" by David L. S. Brook, Pasquotank: The Architectural supplemented by Lewis Brumfield, examines the history of the state's Heritage of Elizabeth City and is available for $35, plus six firstorganization devoted to Pasquotank County, North percent sales tax and $2 for historic preservation. Included are Carolina, by Tom Butchko, shipping and handling, from the features an historical essay on the Yadkin County Historical Society. photographs and descriptions of county's and city's development. To order send your name, address, many ofN.C. 's preservation To order send name, address, and and telephone number with a check pioneers. It also chronicles the

12 early effortsof Tar Heels to rescue Contact Lloyd Childers, Archaeol­ page volume includes twenty-six their historic properties. The 205- ogy and Historic Preservation, N. black and white maps and illustra­ page clothbound is available for C. Division of Archives and tions, an index, and a list of $24 plus $3 for shipping. History, I09 East Jones Street, references for further reading Raleigh. NC 27601-2807, or (919) about society in colonial North The 1998 Historical Publica­ 733-4763 for information on how Carolina. The book is available for tions Catalogue is still available. to order. $8, plus $3 forshipping, from the New items in this addition include Historical Publications Section, a poster of the infamous pirate Handbook for Historic Division of Archives and History, Blackbeard; In Some Foreign Preservation Commissions in I09 East Jones Street, Raleigh, NC Field: Four British Graves and North Carolina, edited by Susan 27601-2807. Submarine Wa,fare on the North Dakin, is a joint project by the Carolina Outer Banks; Guide to N.C. Historic Preservation Office Sherman's March Through Research Materials in the North and Preservation NC. The hand­ North Carolina: A Chronology, Carolina State Archives: County book contains basic information on by F. Wilson Angley, Jerry L. Record and A lasting Heritage: A establishing and managing local Cross, and Michael Hill, presents a History of the North Carolina preservation commissions and thorough and compelling day-to­ Society for the Preservation of addresses such topics as how to day account of General William T. Antiquities. To receive a freecopy designate historic landmarks and Sherman's progress through North of the catalogue, contact the districts, how to work with prop­ Carolina from early March 1865 Historical Publications Section. erty owners, and how to minimize through May 4, 1865. The 129- potential legal challenges to the page volume is indexed, contains The second volume of The commission's authority and four maps, and is available for Papers of David Settle Reid procedures. The handbook is $10, plus $3 for shipping. covers the years from1853 until available by mail for $15 from the death of his wife in 1913. Linda McRae, Survey and Plan­ Volume I of State Tmops and Edited by Lindley S. Butler, the ning Branch, Historic Preservation Volunteers: A Photographic 408-page volume is available for Office, I09 East Jones Street, Record of North Carolina's Civil $35 plus $4 for shipping. Raleigh, NC 2760 I, (919) 733- War Soldiers, by Greg Mast, 6545, or Preservation NC, PO Box contains 608 rare and striking lm,uring the Future of Our 27644, Raleigh, NC 27611-7644, photographs of Tar Heel soldiers. Past: A Brief Guide to Selecting (919) 832-3652. Entries about the soldiers include or Starting an Archival Program, (when informationis available), by Boyd Cathey, discusses how The following volumes, as civilian occupation. dates of birth records holders should go about well as many other titles, are still and death, date of enlistment, unit choosing a repository for their available from the Historical affiliation,and events that affected archival collections or developing Publications Section, 109 East each man while in service. The an archives of their own. Copies of Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601- 381-page, clothbound book is the booklet are available freeof 2807. When ordering by mail, indexed and costs $50, plus $4 for charge fromthe Archives and North Carolina residents please shipping. Records Section, Division of add 6% sales tax. Archives and History, I 09 East A newly revised eleventh Jones Street, Room 303, Raleigh, Society in Colonial North edition of the Guide to Research NC 27601-2807, or by calling Nell Carolina, by Alan D. Watson, Materials in the North Camlina Hudson at (919) 733-3952. discusses such topics as homes, - State Archives: County Records furnishings,education, health, serves as one of the most popular Legacy, A Preservation Guide recreation, religion, transportation, reference tools to researchers. The into the Twenty-First Centuryfor town life. marriage, and death. For 363-page guide contains a list of North Carolinians is North this revised edition, Dr. Watson records foreach North Carolina Carolina's comprehensive historic has written a new chapter entitled county housed in the State Ar­ preservation plan forthe 1990s. "Servitudeand Slavery." The 14 7- chives as of May I, 1997. It

13 describes more than 9,000 bound includes 21 black -and-white arranged chronologically to trace volumes, 21,000 boxes of loose illustrations. coastal Onslow's social. economic, records, and over 24,000 rolls of and political history from the microfilm. The paperbound is "Divided Allegiances: Bertie county's creation in 1731 to the available for $15 plus $3 for County during the Civil War" twentieth century. Special attention shipping. examines the way passions and is given to Onslow County's divisions created by the sectional maritime setting and to the impact A reprint edition of A conflict affectedthe lives of of military installations, most Chronicle of North Carolina virtually every citizen of an eastern notably, Camp Lejeune. The I 84 During The American Revolu­ North Carolina county. Written by page book contains illustrations, tion, 1763-1789, by Jeffrey J. Gerald W. Thomas, the 206 page an index, and a bibliography. The Crow, examines significantevents paperbound volume painstakingly paperbound Onslow history costs and developments fromthe imple­ identifiesthose Bertie residents $8, plus $3 for shipping. mentation of Great Britain's "new who served each side and graphi­ colonial policy" in 1763 toNorth cally describes the battles and Guide to Research Materials Carolina's ratificationof the social upheavals that engulfed the in the North Carolina State federalConstitution in 1789. The county. The book discusses the Archives: State Agency Record.'! 61-page paperbound book presents role of Bertie County's African­ provides detailed information about processed and unprocessed a brief overview ofNorth Carolina Americans-----mostlyslaves-----as a records, microfilmedrecords, and during the Revolution and contains source of manpower for the recently transferredrecords that . 27 black-and-white pictures and a Federal army and navy and also are housed in the State Archives. list of sources. Cost is $6 plus $3 documents the extensive participa­ The new 855-page guide is the first forshipping . tion of Bertie County men in revised edition of this valuable various battles, including the resource in thirty-two years. The A revised edition of the Battle of Plymouth(April 17-20, volume is paperbound and is popular Indian Wars in North 1864). The book includes appen­ available for $30, plus $4 for Carolina, 1663-1763 focuseson dices, 3 maps and 22 black and shipping. American Indian wars during the white pictures that illustrates text firstcentury of permanent white and is available for $11.00 plus Dare County: A Brief His­ settlement inNorth Carolina. The $3.00 for shipping. tory, by David Stick, has been 94-page paperback volume also reprinted. The 64-page paperback discusses variousNative American A new, revised edition of includes informationon such tribes that inhabited colonialNorth North Carolina during Recon­ topics as the Lost Colony, early Carolina during the seventeenth struction by Richard L. Zuber, life on the Outer Banks, the Civil and eighteenth centuries. The book provides a summary of political, War, the establishment and devel­ is available for $6 plus $3 for social, and economic events in the opment of lighthouses, and the shipping. TarHeel State during the tumultu­ Wright brothers' first flightsat ous period followingthe Civil War. Kitty Hawk. The book costs $8.00, North CarolinaIn The Of special interest is an account of plus $3.00 for shipping. American Revolution, Hugh F. the impeachment of Republican Rankin's portrait ofNC's role in Governor William W. Holden in "Journal of a Secesh Lady": the Revolution has been out of 1871. The 67-page paperback The Diaryof Catherine Ann print since 1986. Now reappear­ volume also focuseson problems Devereaux Edmonston, 1860- ing forits sixth printing, the 75- and adjustments facedby the 1866 has been reprinted and is page volume explores the events state's African American and white available for $35, plus $4 for leading up to the war and specific citizens. The volume contains 36 shipping. This amusing and battles including the Battle of black-and-white illustrations and perceptive Civil War diary pro­ Moore's Creek Bridge and the costs $6.00 plus $3 forshipping . vides an unusually intimate Battle of GuilfordCounty Court­ glimpse of plantation life and the house. The book is available for Onslow County:A Brief social consequences of war in $6 plus $3 for shipping and History, by Alan D. Watson, is easternNorth Carolina.

14 Volume 2 of The Papers of the Wright brothers· exploits from by Jeffrey J. Crow. Paul D. Escott. j Governor Zebulon Baird Vance. a NorthCarolina perspective. and Flora .I. Hatley. traces the edited by Joe A. Mobley. covers Written by Thomas ·c. Pan-amore. story of black No11h Carolinians the first fulI calendar year ( 1863) the I 24-page. paperback volume is fromcolonial times through the of Vance's Civil War govemship. indexed and illustrated with thirty civil rights movement of the I %Os and 1970s. The book sells for$ I 0. Volume 2 provides insight into the black-and-white pictures. The plus $3 for shipping. many problems within North book costs $8, plus $3 for ship- Carolina that contributed to public pmg. An Index to North Carolina disaffectionwith the Confederate Newspapers, 1784-1789 includes cause. Virtually all the correspon- The thirteenth volume of names. places, and subjectsfound dence known to have been created North Carolina Troops, 1861- in newspapers printed in New by Vance in 1863 has been in- 1865: A Roster, by Weymouth T. Bern,Hillsborough, Edenton, eluded. Volume 2 (436 pages, cloth Jordan, Jr., contains carefully Wilmington. and Fayetteville. binding, illustrations, index) may researched histories of the 53rd, Compiled and edited by Alan D. Watson. the paperbound volume be ordered for$35, plus $4 for 54th, 55th, and 56th Regiments, costs $12. plus $3 forshipping. shipping. N.C. Infantry,and the names and service records of the approxi- Guide to North Carolina The award-winning North mately 7,000 Confederate soldiers Highway Hi.'ltorical Markers. Carolina Colonial Records Project who served in those units. The edited by Michael R. Hill, is an has published Records of the volume costs $38, plus $4 for inventory of officialstate historical Executive Council, 1755-1775, shipping. Some earlier volumes in markers erected from 1936 through edited by Robert J. Cain. the ninth the series are available in limited 1989. It is available for$10. plus volume of The Colonial Records quantities. $3 for shipping. of North Carolina [Second Pamlico County: A Brief Series}. Volume 9 of The Colonial Guilford County: A Brief History, by Joe A. Mobley. is Records of North Carolina (xxix, History, by Alexander R. Stoesen. is the twelfth title in a series of divided chronologically into eight 870 pages. cloth) costs $75, plus main sections that trace the coastal $4 for shipping. As a special offer. short histories of North Carolina counties. The volume is indexed county's history from its earliest the three volumes of The Colonial and includes a list of suggested habitation by native Americans to Records that contain executive readings for furthers tudy. Forty its modern place in the state's council documents can be pur- black-and-white pictures illustrate history. The volume is available chased at a reduced price. If tDe text. This history of Guilford for$8, plus $3 for shipping. bought separately, Volumes 7, 8, sells for $5, plus $2 forshipping . and 9 cost $145, plus $12 for Cumberland Ct>unty: A shipping; however, when pur- The firstvolume of The Brief History, by Roy Parker. Jr.. chased as a set. the price is $125, Papers of David Settle Reid, covers the broad sweep of plus $12 for shipping. postpaid. elected governor in 1850, covers Cumberland's history fromits the years 1829 through 1852. formation in 1754 through the end Ship Ashore! The U.S. Edited by Lindley S. Butler, the of the 1980s. The volume is Lifesavers of Coa.5tal North book is available for$45, plus $4 available for$8, plus $3 for Carolina, by Joe A. Mobley, forshipping . shipping. recounts the events leading to the establishment of twenty-nine The eighth and finalvolume of lifesaving stationsalong North The Papers of WilliamAlexander Carolina's treacherous coastline Graham covers the years from and the role of their gallant lifesav- 1869 until his death in 1875. ers in the state's maritime history. Edited by Max Williams and Mary Ship Ashore! costs $10, plus $3 Reynolds Peacock, the volume forshipping . may be ordered for$45, plus $4 forshipping . Triumph at KittyHawk: The A Historyof African Ameri- Wright Brothers and Powered 400COPIES OF THIS PUBUCDOCUMENT WERE cans in NorthCarolina, written PRINTED AT A COST$182 OF .80OR $.46PER COPY . Flight examines forthe firsttime

15 Summary of Events

June

7-12: "Daily Life in Early Salem: A Step Back in Time, Old Salem, (336) 721-7300 13-14: "King's Birthday: A Festival of Colonial Music," Tryon Palace, (800) 767-1560 15: The North Carolina Symphony Concert, Tryon Palace, (800) 767-1560 19-20: "Romance of the Garden" tour, Hickory, (704) 322-4731 20: Family Day at Reed Gold Mine, (704) 721-4653 26-28: Beaufort Old Homes Tour and Antiques Show, Beaufort, (919) 728-5225

July

4: Torchlight Process, Old Salem, (336) 721-7300 4-5: Independence Day Weekend, Old Salem, (336) 721-7300 11: "Gardening with Heirloom Vegetables," Tryon Palace, (800) 767-1560 18-19: Living History Programs, Bentonville Battleground, (910) 594-0789 25: Tobacco Harvest Festival, Duke Homestead, (919) 477-5498

August

8: "Gardens of the Delaware Valley," Tryon Palace, (800) 767-1560 22: Herb Festival,. Duke Homestead, (919) 477-5498

Upcoming:

September: North Carolina Genealogical Society trip to Washington October: 1-3: U.S. Lifesaving Service Historical Association Annual Meeting, (919) 733-7442 23-24: "The 1898 Wilmington Racial Violence and Its Legacy," (910) 962-3 I 37

Exhibits

Through June 7: "Across the Creek from Salem: The Story of Happy Hill, 1816-1952." Old Salem Through June 7: "North Carolina Women Making History." Museum of the Albemarle Through June 28: "Inventing the American Landscape: A Dialogue with the Visual World." St. John's Museum of Art Through June 28: "With All Necessary Attention: the Artistry of Thomas Day;" and "Face to Face: Portraits of North Carolina Notables." North Carolina Museum of History Through June 29: "The Press in North Carolina History." North Carolina Museum of History July IO-September 6: "Light of Touch: Select Works on Paper." St. John's Museum of Art Through August 15: "North Carolina in the Spanish-American War." North Carolina Museum of History