Works in the index that concern this person directly, or were written by them. Each links to the institution that holds or provides it; background reading with wider context sits further down.
Observations of an accidental farmer--and a mindful reader
Kavros, Harry · 2024 · Paul Dry Books
Harry Kavros's 2024 collection of essays and anecdotes about taking up farm life near Hillsborough, from the landscape to keeping chickens and other animals, alongside reflections on the South and on the writers who shaped his reading: Thoreau, Emerson, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard and Frederick Law Olmsted. Sections run from an introduction through 'The landscape', 'Chickens and other beasts' and 'The South' to an epilogue and appendix. First Paul Dry Books edition, Philadelphia.
Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974.
Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974 · 1861
Phillips Russell (1884-1974) taught journalism at the University of North Carolina and wrote biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Paul Jones. His papers, 7,800 items in fourteen linear feet covering 1861 to 1974, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4004. Topics include his publishers, his teaching, the writer Lucy Phillips Russell, and colleagues such as Henry Horace Williams and John Ehle.
