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.
Friday from the Archives: “A Moment on Hooper Lane: How We See, How We Are Seen” an essay by Bland Simpson in NCLR 2018
“Would
that we could greet each and every one of these millions of newcomers, whether they are born here or come from away, like the original native Americans, the first peoples twelve millennia ago.”
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000
This week’s Friday from the Archives comes from the editor and from her first issue as editor.
Friday from the Archives: “Where the Cape Fear Empties into Ocean” a poem by Kathleen Halme
with art by Claude Howell in NCLR 1998
As we head into the longest night of the year, the Solstice, and winter begins, we think of the return of the light, and the warmth of the summer sun.
Friday from the Archives: “The Early Humorous Tradition of the Lower Cape Fear, from the Lampoon of “Old Silenus” to the Early Work of Johnson Jones Hooper” by Richard Rankin in NCLR 2000
Friday from the Archives: “Ruins of Time” a short story by Jerry Leath Mills from NCLR 17 (2008)
By Josie Klacker, Intern
Mills shared a memory for our 2008 “North Carolina Humor: The Old Mirth State” issue…
Friday from the Archives: “Tani” a children’s story and illustrations by Mebane Holoman Burgwyn in NCLR 2006
Friday from the Archives: ““living deeper into matter”: Robert Frost’s “Kitty Hawk” and the Creation of Nature” by William Stott in NCLR 2003
Our special feature of 2003 was “Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the First Flight: Aviation in North Carolina Literature and Letters”, so fitting we should revisit for Aviation History Month.
Friday from the Archives: “Getting By and Through the ’40s” by I.S. Nakata in NCLR 2023
Black Mountain College, which we featured in our 1995 issue, had its heyday during the 1940’s. World War II impacted the college …
Friday from the Archives: “Harvest Time” a poem by Tonya Holy Elk with art by Joan C. Blackwell in NCLR 2023
November is Native American Heritage Month!