a..•-g __,.,. ,,1 NOrm v a ,u III m .., un\)> Fl .l Raleigh fr,t C. B:lf/1,, Doc. CAROLINA COMMENTS PUBLISHED BIMONTHLY BY THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER, 1971 Culture Week to he Held in Raleigh North Carolina's annual "Culture Week," a unique gathering of the state's thirteen cultural and historical organizations, returns to its perma­ nent home in Raleigh November 30 through December 4. Headquarters will be at the Sir \Valter Hotel, and programs and reservation forms will be mailed in November. Among this year's outstanding speakers will be Dr. Lyman H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, who will deliver the address at the awards session of the Literary and His­ torical Association; and Mrs. S. Henry Edmunds, director of Historic Charleston Foundation, who will be luncheon speaker for the Society for the Preservation of Antiquities. The annual Culture Week reception, to which members of all participating societies are invited, will be held on Wednesday afternoon, December 1, at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The schedule for the various organizations during the week is as follows: Tuesday, Roanoke Island Historical Association and the Federation of Music Clubs; Wednesday, State Art Society; Thursday, Society for the Preservation of Antiquities, Museums Council, and Symphony Society; Fri­ day, Literary and Historical Association, Folklore Society, and Arts Coun­ cil; and Saturday, Society of County and Local Historians, Mayflower So­ ciety, Historical Book Club, and Poetry Society. James Iredell, the first North Carolinian to serve on the United States Supreme Court, is to be the subject of an address by Dr. Don Higginbotham at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Asso­ ciation. Dr. Higginbotham, professor of his­ tory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is editing the Iredell Papers, to be published by the State Department of Archives and History. (Photographs by State Department of Archives and History unless otherwise specified.) The week-long activities have grown up around the North Carolina Liter­ ary and Historical Association, the oldest of the societies, which tradi­ tionally meets the first Friday in December. The name "Culture Week" was first applied by Jonathan Daniels in a tongue-in-cheek editorial in the Raleigh N eu)s and Observer. Far from being upset by the "spoofing" reference, Dr. Christopher Crittenden, then director of the State Depart­ ment of Archives and History and secretary of the Literary and Historical Association, liked the name and informally adopted it. Brantley Appointed Adrninistrator of Tryon Palace Michael W. Brantley, former president of the Mobile Historic Develop­ ment Commission in Alabama, became administrator of Tryon Palace on October 1. Announcement of the appointment was made jointly, on August 27, by Mrs. John A. Kellenberger, chairman of the Tryon Palace Commission, and Dr. H. G. Jones, director of the State Department of Archives and His­ tory. Brantley succeeded Dr. Gertrude S. Carraway, who served as director of the project from the beginning of its restoration in the 1950s. Dr. Carraway is remaining on the staff temporarily to help plan for the official opening of the John Wright Stanly House. A native of Troy, Alabama, Brantley received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama and completed the course work for his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Edinburgh University in Scotland for one year. His teaching experience includes two years at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and four years at Spring Hill College in Alabama. While teaching in college, Brantley became interested in the three­ dimensional aspects of history. He participated in the seminar for historical administrators at Williamsburg in 1970 and served as acting director of the Mobile Historic Development Commission for several months prior to be­ coming its president. He restored a historic house in Mobile for a residence­ a task that he expects to repeat in New Bern, a town noted for its early buildings. As administrator of Tryon Palace, Brantley has taken charge of a com­ plex that encompasses nineteen buildings, including, in addition to the palace, four other period houses and a number of formal gardens. The restoration of the colonial governor's residence was carried out by the Tryon Palace Commission with funds provided by the late Mrs. James Edwin Latham of Greensboro, whose son-in-law and daughter-Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kellenberger-are treasurer and chairman, respectively, of the commission. The properties, after restoration, were accepted by the state for administration by the State Department of Archives and History. Tryon Palace Syn1poshnn Planned The fourth annual Tryon Palace Symposium on the Eighteenth Century Decorative Arts will be held in New Bern on March 12, 13, and 14, 1972. The sessions are sponsored by the Tryon Palace Commission; Division of 102 Continuing Education, East Carolina University; and State Department of Archives and History. The John Wright Stanly House will be the topic of the lectures. Authori­ ties will speak on the architecture, furniture, carpets, and ceramics of this latest addition to the Tryon Palace complex. Tours of the house will be featured as a part of the program. Marvin D. Schwartz of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will close the series of lectures with a presentation of "Colonial American Cabinetmakers, 1670-1780, and their English Models." Registration forms may be obtained from the Division of Continuing Education, Box 2727, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, 27834. Books Eligible for Literary Competitions Listed Books entered for the several literary awards to be given during the annual meeting of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association on December 3 have been announced by Dr. H. G. Jones, secretary of the association. The four awards are the Mayflower for nonfiction, the Sir Walter Raleigh for fiction, the American Association of University Women for a juvenile work, and the Roanoke-Chowan for poetry. To be eligible for the current competitions, a work must have been pub­ lished between July 1, 1970, and June 30, 1971; the author must have maintained physical or legal residence (or a combination of both) in the state during the past three years. Entered in competition for the Mayflower Cup are Richard Bardolph, The Civil Rights Record: Black Americans and the Law, 1849-1970; Ora Black­ mun, A Spire in the Mountains; Coy C. Carpenter, The Story of Medicine at Wake Forest University; Converse D. Clowse, Economic Beginnings in Colonial South Carolina, 1670-1730; Faris Jane Corey, North Carolina Firsts; Jonathan Daniels, Ordeal of Ambition: Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr; Chalmers G. Davidson, The Last Foray: The South Carolina Planters of 1860, A Sociological Study; Chalmers G. Davidson, The Plantation World Around Davidson: The Story of North Mecklenburg "Before the War"; Joseph M. Flora, William Ernest Henley; Harry Golden, The Israelis; Stanley E. Green, Kinnakett Adventure; Wade Hadley, Doris Goerch Hor­ ton, and Nell Craig Stroud, Chatham County, 1771-1971; Barbara Harding, The Boy, the Man, and the Bishop; F. Roy Johnson, The Nat Turner Story; Weston La Barre, The Ghost Dance; Rodney E. Leftwich, Arts and Crafts of the Cherokee; Sarah M. Lemmon, Parson Pettigrew of the "Old Church": 1744-1807; Faison and Pearl McGowen, Flashes of Duplin's History and Government; Joseph L. Morrison, Governor 0. Max Gardner: A Power in North Carolina and New Deal Washington; R. W. Pfaff, New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England; J. R. Raper, Without Shelter: The Early Career of Ellen Glasgow; Nancy and Bruce Roberts, Where Time Stood Still; Andrew M. Scott and others, Insurgency; Anne F. Scott, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930; [Gary Trawick and Paul Wyche], 100 Years-100 Men; Allen W. Trelease, Reconstruction: 103 The Great E xperiment; Allen W. Trelease, White Terror; Dwayne E. Walls, The Chicken bone Special; Richard Walser, Literary North Carolina; and John Foster \Vest, The Ballad of Tom Dula. In competition for the Sir Walter Raleigh award are Helen Bevington, The House Wa s Quiet and the World Was Calm; John Ehle, Time of Drums; Patrick Elliott, High the Blood-Red Flag; Paul Green, Home to My Valley; Roger A. Greenleaf, It Can Happen; Melissa Hardy, A Cry of Bees; Rey­ nolds Price, Permanent Errors; George B. Russ, Over Edom I Lost My Shoes; Helen Tucker, The Guilt of August Fielding; and Sylvia Wilkinson, Cale. For the AAUW award, the following are competing: Thelma and Corydon Bell, North Carolina; Helen Copeland, Festival in the Park; Meindert DeJong, The Easter Cat; F. Roy Johnson, How and Why Stories in Carolina Folklore; Alexander Key, Flight to the Lonesome Place; Suzanne Newton, Purro and the Prattleberries; Glen Rounds, The Strawberry Roan; and Nell Wise Wechter, Swamp Girl. Poetry submitted for the Roanoke-Chowan award includes William Har­ mon, Treasury Holiday; Peggy Kyle, My Heart Must Sing; Harold G. McCurdy, The Chastening of Narcissus; Paul Baker Newman, The Ladder of Love ; James Larkin Pearson, "My Fingers and My Toes"; John M. Pip­ kin, Half-A-Love ; Sam Ragan, To the Water's Edge. Archives and History Administrators Double as Teachers Several classes are being offered to college students in Raleigh whereby they may learn principles of archives and records management, editing, and museum operation. Mr. C. F. W. Coker, head of the Division of Archives and Records Management, is teaching the course in archives administration offered through North Carolina State University. The six-hour course was formerly taught by Dr. Jones; it is given in the offices of the department and consists of both theory and practical application in the form of work actually performed in the State Archives.