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North Carolina Poetry

Apr 23rd, 2013
by Maria (acqserials).
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New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:

Carolina Spring: An Anthology of North Carolina Poets, Shelby Stephenson, Ed. Features the writings of North Carolina poets by region, including Marsha White Warren, Paul Jones, Lou Lipstiz, Stephen Smith, Sam Ragan, David Hopes, Fred Chappell, Betty Adcock, and Michael Chitwood and more.

Conjure Blues, by Jaki Shelton Green. Piedmont Laureate and North Carolina Award for Literature recipient.

 

 

 

 

In the Palms of Angels, by Terri Kirby Erickson. Winner of the Carteret Writers Award for Poetry and first prize honors from the Writers’ Ink Guild.

 

 

 

 

Living Above the Frost Line: New and Selected Poems, by Nancy Simpson. Poet and Writer in residence for the John C. Campbell Folk School.

 

 

 

 

 

Matching Skin, by Shirley Ammons. John Hope Franklin Grant for Documentary Studies recipient and Ebony Harlem Award recipient.

 

 

 

 

Poor Mouth Jubilee, by Michael Chitwood. Michael Chitwood’s ‘sublime book about sorrow.’

 

 

 

 

 

Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.

North Carolina Mountains and Coast

Apr 16th, 2013
by Maria (acqserials).
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New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:

Deep Gap Days: A Crazy Quilt Narrative of My Boyhood in the Blue Ridge Mountains, by John Idol.  Growing up alongside US 421 between 1930 and the early 1950s, the authors shares memories that describe mountain life in the area between Boone  and Deep Gap, North Carolina.

 

 

 

Life at the Edge of the Sea: Essays on North Carolina’s Coast and Coastal Culture,  Candy Beal and Carmine Prioli, eds. This book presents Southern Coastal Heritage Workshop series essays on a variety of North Carolina coastal topics including geology, estuarine dynamics, the Outer Banks brogue,  working waterfronts, boat building, African- American history,  Native American archaeology and the history of the Cape Lookout National Seashore.

 

 

Shipwreck Diving North Carolina: Calabash to Southport: Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Holden Beach, Oak Island, & Bald Head Island, by Fred David and Vern Bender. The authors document multiple aspects of shipwreck diving off the North Carolina coast, including: short descriptions final voyages, photographs, GPS coordinates, diving logistics, shipwreck history, YouTube links on shipwrecks and marine life, information on the Cypress Tree Forest on the ocean floor,  and the story of Frying Pan Tower and Frying Pan Lightships.

Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.

The love of bookmobiles

Feb 4th, 2013
by Michelle (ncpedia).
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The pictures of old bookmobiles in the North Carolina Digital Collections’ Library History collection are clear favorites for many staff. What better way to start off the week than to highlight a few of them? Some images may be copyrighted, so only a small thumbnail is provided below. Simply click on the image to view the larger version in the North Carolina Digital Collections.

African American children line up outside of Albemarle Region bookmobile

This first image is popular with all who see it. No year is attributed to the it. Do you have any guesses?

The caption assigned to it is “African-American children line up outside of Albemarle Region bookmobile. ” Not only does everyone seem very engaged in what they are reading, but the design of the bookmobile itself is fascinating!

Anson County Library's first bookmobileThe title attributed to the image to the right is “Anson County’s first bookmobile.” This image belongs to the Sandhill Regional Library System. The year attributed to it is 1937. This bookmobile was apparently created from a discarded school bus! It is fun to imagine either riding to school in this vehicle or checking out books from it.

Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County

The “Mobile Library” of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County depicted to the left is dated 1955. It more closely resembles a delivery van and definitely looks like it could hold a few more books than the earlier models shown above. I also like the simple, portable step to help library users climb in and out of the bookmobile.

View more images of bookmobiles in the North Carolina Digital Collections at http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/search/searchterm/Bookmobiles–North%20Carolina/. You may also view, like, and share those we have pinned on Pinterest!

Edmund Hoyt Fanning, a Carolina Christmas “card.”

Dec 19th, 2012
by MChilds.
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Entertainer Edmund Hoyt Harding (1890-1970) was known as “the Tarheel Humorist.” He was a popular speaker in his day, with thousands of amusing stories that he tracked with a file card system, to make sure he didn’t tell the same group the same story twice. He was kind of a stand-up comedian, only the kind most at home performing in front of civic clubs logy after a big dinner, instead of a brick wall and tippling strangers. He was our state’s ambassador of goodwill, a title he earned in the 1940s from Governor Cherry. A native of Washington, N.C., he got involved in preserving and publicizing the historic town of Bath, becoming president of the Beaufort County Historical Society, and even penning a pageant called Queen Anne’s Bell in 1955 for the town’s 250th anniversary.

One way Harding expressed his humor was Christmas cards. He must have really liked costumes, as his Christmas cards from over the years picture him dressed up as: a bullfighter, Blackbeard the pirate, Uncle Sam, a Revolutionary War fifer, a Confederate drummer, a Lord Proprietor, an English beefeater costume, in a Roman toga, in Swiss lederhosen, a cartoon devil, and unavoidably, Santa Claus.  The North Carolina Historic Sites has a collection of Christmas cards from Edmund Harding, a true Christmas “card” himself. Digital images of select cards may be found at http://collections.ncdcr.gov.

-T. Mike Childs

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