At the Othmer Library in Brooklyn, N.Y., I found a story that I thought spoke in a moving way to the history of Eastern North Carolina and the Great Migration-- and especially to the historic ties between the region's African American communities and New York City.
Month: July 2024
A Moment for Noam Chomsky
A couple weeks ago, a British newspaper broke the story that the acclaimed MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky had suffered a serious stroke late in 2023. Even though I knew that Professor Chomsky was 95 years old, the news stunned me. None of my teachers meant more to me.
“A Collection of Log Huts, Inhabited by Fishermen”: Stumpy Point, 1888
Traveling down Pamlico Sound in 1888, a New York Times correspondent found "a collection of log huts, inhabited by fishermen" at Stumpy Point, N.C. He wrote, "The ground on which these huts are built is so boggy that the lowest tier of bunks . . . is generally half full of water."
David Cecelski 