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Other states and regions 974 to 979: 7 titles as they stand on the shelf at OCPL, in call-number order. North Carolina history bookshelf, E-1: North Carolina histories of every kind, from the university and the State Fair to the state’s natural history and Durham’s Hayti.

• The Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family of Beech Mountain Isbell, Robert · 1996

  Robert Isbell's portrait of the Hicks family of Beech Mountain and its music and storytelling, drawn mostly from the recollections of the Jack tale teller Ray Hicks. It runs from ancestors who arrived in the late 1700s to Ray's parents, Nathan and Rena, and their ten children, in the years before paved roads and power lines reached the mountain. UNC Press, 1996; 174 pages, with a foreword by Wilma Dykeman.

  Call number NC 974 ISB View in OCPL catalog →
• Black Americans in North Carolina and the South 1984

  Jeffrey J. Crow and Flora J. Hatley edited these essays on the history of Black Americans in North Carolina and the wider South, with bibliographies and an index. The University of North Carolina Press published the collection in 1984; 200 pages.

  Call number NC 975.004 BLA View in OCPL catalog →
• Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook Duncan, Barbara R. · 2003

  A travel guide to Cherokee places in the mountains where North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia meet, by Barbara R. Duncan and Brett H. Riggs, arranged around seven hub communities in the old Cherokee homeland. Chapters cover sites, scenic drives, side trips and events, with Cherokee stories, history and poems throughout; stops include the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Kituhwa Mound, the Junaluska Memorial and the Unicoi Turnpike Trail. UNC Press, 2003; 368 pages with color maps.

  Call number NC 975.004 DUN View in OCPL catalog →
• Marriages of Goochland County, Virginia, 1733-1815 Williams, Kathleen Booth · 1986

  Kathleen Booth Williams gathered Goochland County, Virginia, marriages of 1733 to 1815 in this work, first issued in 1960 and later reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company of Baltimore; this printing is dated 1986. It has 148 pages with charts and indexes. Goochland was formed from Henrico in 1728 and at first reached west to the Blue Ridge.

  Call number NC 975.375 WIL View in OCPL catalog →
• The Story of Virginia's First Century: With Bibliography Stanard, Mary Newton · 2005

  Mary Newton Stanard's history of Virginia from the Jamestown settlement of 1607 to the close of the seventeenth century, first published by J. B. Lippincott in 1928. This 400th anniversary edition, printed in 2005 by Thompson-Shore of Dexter, Michigan, runs to 406 pages with illustrations, portraits, a facsimile, a bibliography and an index. Stanard, a Richmond historian, also wrote 'Colonial Virginia: Its People and Customs' (1917).

  Call number NC 975.5 STA View in OCPL catalog →
• The Great Dismal: A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir Simpson, Bland · 1990

  Bland Simpson, who grew up in Elizabeth City near the Albemarle Sound, mixes his own memories with travel through the swamp, the recollections of people who live around it, and natural history in this book on the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina and Virginia. Published by UNC Press in 1990 and reissued in 1993 and 1998; 185 pages with illustrations, a bibliography and an index.

  Call number 975.552 SIM View in OCPL catalog →
• Weird Carolinas : your Travel Guide to the Carolinas' Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets Manley, Roger · 2007

  Roger Manley's illustrated guide to the strange side of North and South Carolina: local legends and ancient mysteries, UFOs and bizarre beasts, ghosts and cemeteries, local heroes and villains, roadside oddities, the handmade worlds of self-taught artists, and abandoned places. Published in New York by Sterling in 2007; 253 pages, mostly in color, with an index.

  Call number NC 975.75 MAN View in OCPL catalog →