One of this year's most highly anticipated new books on America's civil rights movement has just come out-- Willa Cofield, Cynthia Samuelson, and Mildred Sexton's The Nine O'Clock Whistle: Stories of the Freedom Struggle for Civil Rights in Enfield, North Carolina.
Month: February 2025
When Fishermen Harvested Seaweed: The Agar Industry in Beaufort, N.C. during the Second World War
This is the story of seaweed harvesting on the North Carolina coast during World War II and of a wartime crisis that led to the construction of a factory in Beaufort that turned that seaweed into agar, a jelly-like substance that was critical for making vaccines, treating infections, and diagnosing diseases.
Working Lives: The Herring Fisheries at Plymouth, N.C., 1939
This is a special group of photographs that were taken on the Roanoke River, just west of Plymouth, N.C., in the spring of 1939. Now preserved at the State Archives in Raleigh, they show the last days of two of the oldest herring seine fisheries on the North Carolina coast.
David Cecelski 