Posted in From the Stacks, History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The photo above is one of 66 images of historic schools in North Carolina that the State Library of North Carolina added to its Flickr site. Our colleagues are trying to determine where each of these schools stood. The photos were included in the Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, tagged nc outer banks, orrin h pilkey, slave ships, world's beaches on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Some beach debris is gruesome….In the 1970s a local physician found a piece of shipwreck timber on a North Carolina Outer Banks beach. The piece of cypress wood had two clumps of rust on it separated by a few inches. Close examination of the rust revealed fragments of a fibula and tibia in each. The [...]
