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From The Archives

Each Friday, NCLR will post content from past issues. All past issues are currently available for purchase. Or check your library’s digital collections to read the full piece.

Nature’s Original Inspiration

Friday from the Archives: “You Sang me a song, and I heard”: The Song Behind a Wellman Legend” by Mark Ogilvie, from NCLR 11 (2002) 

Written By: Fall Intern Robert Miranda

The Meaning of Work

Friday from the Archives: “Coffee to Go” memoir by Linda Flowers from NCLR 5 (1996)

“But now, young and old alike work at jobs having no particular value to themselves beyond their pay. My parents and I could see in every aspect of our lives the meaning of our work.”

Oxendine, Lowry: Lumbee or No?

Friday from the Archives: “Finding the Forsaken: Lumbee Identity in Charles Chesnutt’s Mandy Oxendine” an essay by Erica Abrams Locklear from NCLR 22 (2013)

Native Literature from before America

Friday from the Archives: “She Said That Saint Augustine is Worth Nothing Compared to Her Homeland: Teresa Martín and the Méndez Cancio Account of La Tama (1600)” an essay by Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley from NCLR 32 (2023)

“Summer Night” at Weymouth Center

Friday from the Archives: Two poems accompanying “Weymouth: A Writer’s Place—From Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe” by Bertie E. Fearing from NCLR 3 (1994)

NCLR enjoyed attending the biannual North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony last month, held at the beautiful Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.

Ovid Pierce ECU’s First Writer-in-Residence

“From “Gub’ner Green” to The Story of Cabbage Green: An Appreciation of the Writings of Ovid Williams Pierce, First Writer-in-Residence at East Carolina University” by Douglas J. McMillan from NCLR 16 (2007)

The Gift of Paul Green

Friday from the Archives: “Paul Green: A Professor of the Practice of Playwriting” an essay by Georgann Eubanks from NCLR 31 (2022)

Get Ready for Green Fest

Friday from the Archives: “Get Ready for Green Fest”: a look back at a Paul Green essay in the 2012 issue’s feature of NC Literature into Film, in anticipation of an upcoming NCLR event