I discovered another forgotten chapter in eastern North Carolina's history while I was exploring the Farm Security Administration (FSA)'s photographs at the Library of Congress-- it is a story about the migrant farm laborers that worked in Camden, Currituck and Pasquotank counties in the last years of the Great Depression.
Currituck County N.C.
A Winter on Pine Island: Reading Lillie Baum’s Diary from 1904
Now preserved at the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo, Lillie Baum's diaries give us a rare glimpse at the long arc of a woman’s life on the Outer Banks in the first half of the 20th century.
The Migrants in the Potato Fields
I discovered another forgotten chapter in eastern North Carolina's history while I was exploring the Farm Security Administration (FSA)'s photographs at the Library of Congress-- it is a story about the migrant farm workers that harvested the region's crops in the 1930s and '40s.
David Cecelski 