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Milton "Ab" Abernethy and his wife Minna published the journal Contempo and ran the Intimate Bookshop on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, until allegations that they were printing Communist literature at the shop drove them out of town in the 1950s. He had earlier been expelled from N.C. State for publishing an article about cheating there.
1911–1991 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Photographs of the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Milton Abernethy, its founder and owner, stands outside the shop; other views show the storefront in 1978 and at an unknown date, and later owners Wallace and Brenda Kuralt pose in front of it.
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Milton A. Abernethy in two photographs from 1931, a portrait and a candid picture with William Faulkner. Abernethy ran the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill and co-edited the literary magazine Contempo, which brought Faulkner to town that year.
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Milton A. Abernethy, owner of the Intimate Bookshop in Chapel Hill, posed outside the shop in an undated photograph. From the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).
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