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Change for a Dollar Savings and loans changed America during the twentieth century, yet few people under the age of fifty are familiar with the term “savings and loan.” Even fewer remember how this forgotten segment of the financial industry made the dream of owning a home possible ...[more...]	Autumn Falls Keith Baker, a cattle farmer in western North Carolina, lives a simple, but tiring rural life. The physical labor of the farm has comfortably become ...[more]

Walk in ’e Moon Always a master storyteller, LaVerne Thornton entertains readers with his down-to-earth tales of growing up in “The Bend,” ... [more...]	All The Days of My Life Back in the mid-1970s, as part of a college history project at the University of North Carolina, Gary Herion sat down with his grandfather, John H. Herion, and began ... [more]

Doodlebug, Doodlebug Your House Is On Fire! Growing up in Laurinburg, NC, James P. McRae had total freedom to roam the large family farm. ...[more...]	A Chosen Few In A Chosen Few, Booth continues the saga of the Ryan and McBryde families as they face the Great Depres...[more]

Between The Creeks Roy A. Cooper Jr. set out to tell the stories of growing up in the country in the late 1920s and 1930s. In doing so, he has accomplished much more than that. His collection of tales ...[more]	Time And The Piedmont Time and the Piedmont takes its readers on a detailed exploration of some of the most intriguing of nature’s wonders... [more...]

Enterprising Spirit Quakers, farmers, slave owners, inventors, industrialists, business founders, philanthropists, and political leaders... [more...]	Flooded On September 15, 1999, Hurricane Floyd hit eastern N.C., The land we had previously known as the city...[more]

More Than I Derserve The humble story of one man’s life, or rather the journey of that life. As the reader quickly...[more]	Flat Rock Harvest David Hubbell's setting for mystery, seduction, and murderous moonshiners in Appalachian low-country...[more]

I Want to Go to UNC! "This is a wonderful book about the people's university and a child's desire to go there. I recommend it...[more]	Cats and Dogs of Chapel Hill Dyer has collected the stories of local dogs and cats in the hope of touch the hearts of those of us who adore and honor our furry friends. [more...]

Growth and Prosperity The changing face of Garner reflects, in many ways, the adaptations of many small towns across the countr...[more]	Living Waters In Living Waters, the second volume of his series documenting the major rivers of North Carolina, photographer and essayist Ben Casey explores...[more...]

Orange County Trio Orange County Trio is a historical narrative of the inception and growth of Orange County’s three major towns. Orange County Trio not only stands alone as a wealth of interesting historical facts but also... [more...]	A Pleasant Gale on My Lee The past fifty years have seen rapid and profound changes in the Pamlico and Outer Banks; changes that author John Morgan, a former journalist and radio [more...]

Keep Singing Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, two women who became the unlikeliest of activists and gave a new face to the fight against bigotry and hatred. [more..]	All In One River All in One River shares with its readers author Ben Casey's extended meditation, in photographs and prose, on the delicate, multifaceted relationship between nature and humankind. [more...]

A Village Voice When author Robert E. Seymour wrote his light-hearted 1995 column on the "corruption" of the Southern sweet-tea tradition "by aliens in our midst," he had no idea... [more...]	Confessions of an Outer Banks Filly To a little girl observing the world from the porch above her father's store in the middle of North Carolina's Hatteras Village in the 1930s, life was inventive and wonderful. [more...]

Ask Charlie Ask Charlie highlights the sixty-seven year connection between Archdale, North Carolina native Charlie Hendricks and Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. [more...]	Cap'n Dell's Stories Pamlico County was a different world in the 1920's, '30s and '40s. People paid twenty-five cents to pile into the back of the two-ton truck belonging to the owner [more...]

Davidson Co. Community College Davidson County Community College: The First Forty Years, 1963 - 2003 recounts the history of DCCC from its modest beginnings to its position today as one of the most [more...]	Count Their Lives in Womanyears In the early twentieth century, the rolling countryside of North Carolina's southern Piedmont region was dotted by farms inhabited by women who measured their lives in "womanyears" - not in the [more...]

Naomi Wise On or about April 5, 1807, in Randolph County, North Carolina, a young woman named Naomi Wise rendezvoused with her lover, one Jonathan Lewis, [more...]	Mama Always Said Ben Casey and his wife Emmy live with their rescued greyhound, an adopted golden retriever, a show-up cat and an Abissyian cat in a small cinderblock house [more...]

Hard Times and a Nickel a Bucket Author John R. Maiolo chronicles North Carolina’s shrimp industry from its surprisingly recent early-twentieth-century origins though the economic, marketing, technological... [more...]	Playing Before an Overflow Crowd They weren't your run-of-the-mill basketball games. Instead of sneakers, players wore their work shoes or went barefoot. Games were scheduled between... [more...]

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