In this group of photographs, we see two young black men unloading a truckload of logs onto a barge at a landing on Lockwood Folly River in March of 1943. (Part 13 of my "Working Lives" series.)
Brunswick County N.C.
“Darling We Miss Thee”: The Children’s Graves at the Old Smithville Burying Ground
Last summer Laura and I visited the Old Smithville Burying Ground, a lovely old cemetery in Southport, N.C. We walked among the graves of those lost at sea, but they are not the ones I remember now.
A Beautiful Day in Piney Grove
At first light we gathered at the Friendship Holiness Church in Piney Grove, a community in the far southeastern part of the North Carolina coast. The descendants of Caesar Evans were going searching for the community's past in the local woods and swamps, and they had invited me to go with them.
Remembering Cedar Hill
I will never forget the day I spent with George Beatty, Jr. exploring the Gullah Geechee heritage of Cedar Hill, a community founded by the survivors of a rice plantation on the banks of the Cape Fear River.
The Road to Makatoka: Logging the Green Swamp, 1910-1930
This is a selection of historical photographs depicting the Waccamaw Lumber Company's logging and lumber operations in Columbus and Brunswick counties, N.C. They date to the early 20th century, sometime, I would estimate, between 1910 and 1930. They are now preserved, and available for the general public to see, at Duke's David M. Rubinstein Rare Book … Continue reading The Road to Makatoka: Logging the Green Swamp, 1910-1930
Varnamtown’s Fishermen at Bald Head Island, 1938
In the autumn of 1938, the photographer Charles Farrell visited a gang of mullet fishermen from Varnamtown while they hauled their nets on Bald Head Island, down in the far southeast corner of the North Carolina coast.
David Cecelski 