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This Astounding Close
This Astounding Close: The Road to Bennett Place
Nature's Champion
Through the pioneering efforts of ecologist B. W. Wells (1884-1978), thousands of North Carolinians learned to appreciate and protect the state's diverse plant life long before ecology and conservation became popular causes. A keen observer of the natural landscape, Wells provided the first scientific descriptions in modern terms of the forces that shaped coastal communities, bogs and savannahs, the Carolina bays, pine forests, old fields, and mountain grassy balds. But the broader impact of his life lay in his championship and popularization of nature. Outside academic circles, he shared his knowledge through public lectures, articles, and lobbying efforts, and by teaching anyone who would listen. In 1932 he produced for his Tar Heel audience a revolutionary work on the plant ecology of the state, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina. Organized by habitat, this volume is still entertaining and instructive. Wells received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Chicago in 1917 and served as chair of the North Carolina State College botany department for thirty years. He was a memorable teacher and a significant force in the development of his academic institution.
Caraleigh
The Caraleigh neighborhood in south Raleigh was founded in 1892 with the opening of a cotton mill, fertilizer plant and workers' town. The old textile complex, with its "immense" brick structures continue to evoke a strong impression of a bygone period. The old mill remains the community's focal point as of 2022, leading some to worry that Caraleigh's modernized structure may conceal dark secrets. After the Civil War, cotton mills were at the heart of the South's frenzied pursuit of economic and psychological regeneration between 1880 and 1915. As Raleigh's greatest textile venture, Caraleigh itself was founded by a group of cotton investors. The origins of Raleigh's north-south divide can b...
Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.
William Friday
Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post-World War II era. In the second edition of this comprehensive biography, William Link traces Friday's long and remarkable career and commemorates his legendary life. Friday's thirty years as president of the university, from 1956 to 1986, spanned the greatest period of growth for higher education in American history, and Friday played a crucial role in shaping the sixteen-campus UNC system during that time. Link also explores Friday's influential work on nationwide commissions, task forces, and nonprofits, and in the development of the National Humanities Center and the growth of Research Triangle Park. This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.
The American Archivist
Includes sections "Reviews of books" and "Abstracts of archive publications (Western and Eastern Europe)."
Crop Science
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Muster Rolls of the Soldiers of the War of 1812 for North Carolina
By: Adjutant General & Maurice S. Toler, Pub. 1851, reprinted 2022, 196 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-086-2. This book is a complete muster roll of the State's 12,000 soldiers who were detached from the NC Militia. These lists contain the names of both officers and men and are presented in two separate sections: one covering the detachments of 1812, the other the detachments of 1814.
Memoirs and Family History of Bill and Trudy Skinner
William Thomas Skinner was born 15 July 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee. His parents were Sam Ode Skinner (1903-1937) and Bessie Lee Rose (1904-1985). He married Gertrude "Trudy" May McConnell, daughter of Alton McConnell (1911-1992) and Lillian Emma Cole, 19 January 1952. They had four children. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina and England.
