In 2010, Eno Publishers, based in Hillsborough, North Carolina, published 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Poetry & Prose, with an introduction from Michael Malone and literary contributions from 27 writers that included Randall Kenan, Jill McCorkle, Craig Nova, and Jaki Shelton Green, among others. To have a town documented in so many genres by so many skillful practitioners from so many perspectives was a rare phenomenon.
A local anthology of Raleigh novelists, essayists, poets, who write about their hometown.
Around the same time, Dr. Charles Harris was also starting a new job in Durham. He and his colleague, Dr. Ira Smith, founded Harris and Smith Ob-Gyn, and my parents were two of their first clients. Dr. Harris delivered me at Durham ...
27 Views of Asheville presents a brightly colored, kaleidoscopic vision of a city lately come to prominence for its metropolitan ambience and cultural background. Here is place full of variety and surprise.
I once found it deranged, my family's concern for a certain brand of lemon floor wax. It had to smell one citric, zesty way when any person first stepped into our front hall. (A single place in Pennsylvania still made it; ...
Although I have exchanged introductions with a few of my fellow dogwalkers, I mostly recall the names of their animals—Duffy, Miss Ella Fitzgerald, Raya Sunshine, Simon, Moose, Kiya, Gretta, Millie, Pepper, Biscuit, Samson, ...
But when wanda Cox-Bailey, branch manager of the richard B. harrison library on New Bern avenue, assured me that she and librarian Thomas hancock, who also owned Capital City Tours, would handle the logistics, i agreed. after all, ...
that comparatively few of them applauded Dr. King while he lived. In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus, genial and vacant, a benign vessel that can be filled with whatever ...
... she is the author of four books and many other publications. she writes fiction under the pen name Makuchi. “woman of the lake,” her short story about the 1986 lake Nyos disaster that wiped out entire communities in Cameroon, ...
The legend of Teach's Light has been handed down by the people of Stumpy Point village in coastal North Carolina for nearly three centuries.
In 1929 he persuaded newly elected governor O. Max Gardner to champion ... Under Governor Gardner's leadership in 1929 the state legislature passed such a bill , considered the most liberal in the South . 9 The Loray Cotton Mill strike ...