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The Beauty of Things

The Light of the Body

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 / David Cecelski / 2 Comments

I never grow weary of looking at these old portraits at the New Hanover County Public Library. They date from the 1850s to the present day, and they're available to us all even in these times of Covid-19.

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The Light in the Fields

December 1, 2020December 3, 2020 / David Cecelski / 2 Comments

We always said that we’d go to Chinquapin together. He was going to show me where he grew up. We were going to visit his aunt, the one who raised him, and we were going to sit on her front porch and drink sweet tea and tell stories.

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My Grandmother’s Fruitcake

November 23, 2020December 9, 2020 / David Cecelski / 11 Comments

I came to making fruitcakes late in life. One fall morning, maybe 15 or 20 years ago, I woke up craving a slice of my grandmother Vera’s fruitcake. My grandmother, Vera Sabiston Bell, lived in an old farmhouse in a little community called Harlowe in Carteret County, N.C. 

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The Beauty of Old Fishing Nets

June 13, 2020October 5, 2020 / David Cecelski / 6 Comments

Far more than I usually do, I am noticing the beauty in even the smallest, most everyday parts of my world.

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A is for Abraham Galloway

April 16, 2020 / David Cecelski / 2 Comments

I was delighted to open Michelle Lanier’s beautiful new children’s book My N.C. from A to Z and discover Abraham Galloway on the very first page!  I helped bring Galloway’s story to light in my book The Fire of Freedom only a few years ago and now he’s starring in one of the most wonderful … Continue reading A is for Abraham Galloway

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This is David Cecelski’s official website. Here you’ll find my books and an assortment of my essays and lectures. You’ll also find a new project that features historical photographs of maritime life on the North Carolina coast between 1870 and 1941. In “Love in the Archives,” you can also follow my expeditions to museums, libraries and archives here and abroad as I search for the lost stories from our coastal past.

If you see something in a photograph or manuscript that I didn’t see, I hope you will let me know. If I got something wrong, I hope you will also let me know. And if you have an old diary, photograph or other historical document that you think might belong here, I’d love to see it

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I enjoy writing them. I hope they will help you understand better my little corner of the Atlantic seacoast. Maybe they will even help you to grow a little closer to wherever you call home.

Series

  • Alford & Cecelski: About Boats
  • Arthur Miller's War
  • Coastal Music and Art
  • Core Sound Lectures
  • Essays, Lectures & Articles
  • Freedom Stories
  • Great Migrations
  • Harlowe Canal Diary
  • Herring and Shad
  • In Search of Abraham Galloway
  • In Their Own Words
  • Jumpin' Mullet
  • Love in the Archives
  • Maritime Photographs, 1870-1941
  • On the Belle of Washington
  • Photographs of Charles Farrell
  • Postcards
  • Shad Boats: An American Story
  • Shark Hunter: Russell Coles at Cape Lookout
  • Short and Sweet
  • Slave narratives
  • Slavery and Freedom
  • Susan Johnson's Diary
  • The Beauty of Things
  • The Color of Water
  • The Hyde County School Boycott
  • The Klan Last Time
  • The Shrimp Capital of the World
  • The Ties that Bind
  • Wilmington & 1898

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