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Dark Shadows remains one of the most popular cult TV shows of all time. Barnabas & Company tells the tale of the marvelous actors and actresses who came together in a tiny studio in New York City to make magic.
Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love. From creating original works of fanfiction to influencing the content of major primetime series through social media, fans are no longer passive consumers. They have evolved into active participants in creating and shaping these works. The all-new essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of how fans interact with such popular franchises as Harry Potter, Lost, Supernatural, Lord of the Rings and Joss Whedon's Serenity, and examines as well topics not based on media-like fans of LEGO building blocks, Disneyland, and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow.
Grayson Hall was a widely acclaimed New York Theatre actress, 1964 Academy Award nominee, and co-star of the 1960s?70s Gothic television serial, Dark Shadows. Here for the first time is a survey of her life and career which takes place in the world of New York writers and artists beginning in the early 1950s; a world that revolved around serious intellectual discourse, cocktails, cigarettes and theatre! Grayson's own story is that of a hugely talented woman, admired by writers, producers, fellow actors, but who did not get the one role that would propel her into the stratosphere. Nevertheless, with the roles she did inhabit, she became an iconic figure. This book reaches back to Grayson's ea...
William Woolman (1632-1692) of Gloucestershire, England arrived in Burlington, New Jersey in 1678. His son, John (1655-1718), was born in Painswick, Gloucester, England and married Elizabeth Borton in 1684. She was born in Aynhoe, Northampton, England. They both died in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Descendants lived in New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and elsewhere.
This Book was over a dozen years in the making and represents the most comprehensive and documented history of the Lumbee/Tuscarora of the Greater Lumbee Settlement. It compares and contrasts the mixed tribe Lumbees with other tribes in the State of North Carolina and those in South Carolina and Virginia.
With the air filled with the missiles of death, the bluecoats sought the shelter of mother earth and lay flat hugging the wet ground. The men were caught in an exposed position, and here occurred an incident, that would haunt William R. Hartpence of the Fifty-first Indiana as long as he lived. He observed First Lieutenant Peter G. Tait of the Eighty-ninth Illinois standing a little in advance of his regiment, which had intermingled with the Fifty-first during the assault. With his eyes fixed on the young officer, Hartpence watched as Tait was stuck by a cannon ball near the center of his body, tearing a great hole in the left side. As he fell, he threw his right arm around to his side, when ...
By: James E. Wooley, Editor, Pub. 1981, reprinted 2018, 404 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-210-4. These records comprise the loose files of the late Pauline Young, one of South Carolina's most widely known genealogist on Upper South Carolina. Each family record is filed with names of persons mentioned, these records consists of estate settlements, bastardy bonds, deeds, wills, coroner's inquests, abstracts of letters pertaining to estates, guardianship, tavern licenses, etc... It is estimated each book contains more than 40,000 names of early settlers in Upper South Carolina from the mid 1700's down to the 1850's. These records are primarily from Upper South Carolina counties such as: Pendleton District, Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenville, and Pickens Counties.
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Tapleys from England to early New England, Virginia, the Carolinas, eastern Georgia and elsewhere in the United States. The earliest official reference to Tapleys in Georgia was in Richmond County. On May 10, 1790 Joel Tapley of Richmond County was deeded 200 acres of land. He is presumed to have been born ca. 1720 in North Carolina, a son of Hosea Tapley and Sarah Moore. He married Mary Avent in North Carolina. His brother, Newhampton (New) married Mary's sister, Elizabeth Avent. Joel Tapley come to Georgia in the mid- or late 1780's. He lived in what then was Richmond Co. but now is Glascock County, where he died 1790/91.