Supporting local figure
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.
Library of Congress name authority: Abernethy, M. A. (Milton A.) ↗
3 indexed records are connected with this person.
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Milton Abernethy, founder and owner, outside the Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street. Exterior of the Intimate Bookshop in 1978 and at an unknown date. New owners Wallace and Brenda Kuralt outside the Intimate Boo…
2 photographs in the Society's People A-O binder: Portrait; Candid with William Faulkner.
1 photograph in the Society's Businesses A-L binder: Owner of the Intimate Bookshop posed outside his business.
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