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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.

Still Distinctive Island Reading

“I can’t help but think that this must be a fine life – a bookstore with sunshine lighting up the fresh flowers on an island with some of the best beaches on the eastern seaboard.”

Music and Memory in Hedge Coke’s Art

“It is a poet’s place to bring truth and to question injustice, to be troubadour and truth-teller while calling for deeper witnessing and realizing what is here, now. It is our duty.”

Re-assembling the Wilmington Coup story

In her article about Charles W. Chesnutt’s 1901 fictional account of the events, Perkins wrote Chesnutt’s work is like”…the method by which an artist or other type of historiographer attempts to re-assemble the pieces of stories that have been lost within the maze of politically motivated “historical” accounts.”

Philip Gerard: Novelist of History

“The job of what I call the Novelist of History …is to tell a compelling human story, …that not only engages the reader emotionally but also sharpens or even awakens an interest in the history that underpins the story.”

When Arthur Miller came to Wilmington

Cecelski, renowned author on works about the Carolina coastline, listens to the Library of Congress recordings Miller made in 1941 with shipyard workers and their spouses, cabbies, and local African American men and women.