Into the Sound Country: A Carolinian's Coastal Plain
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Overview
Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards. Her selection of archival illustrations ranges from the informative to the humorous, from a turpentine scraper at work in the 1850s to a pair of little girls playing with a horseshoe crab on a Beaufort porch at the turn of the century.
A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807868195 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2017 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Sales rank: | 719,217 |
| File size: | 12 MB |
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About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents
The Sound Country
Betsy: The Northeast
Scuppernong: Around the Albemarle Hulls
Sunny Side: The Roanoke Valley
Ghost Pocosins: Between Albemarle and Pamlico
Croatan: Valley of the Neuse
Tar
The Big Empty: Lower Carolina
Maco: Southeasternmost
Rough Side
Coratank: Northeasternmost
Haystacks: Heart of the Coast
Selected Sound Country Sources
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Maps
Index
Illustrations
Sunset, Leonard's Point, Albemarle Sound, October 1996 / frontis
Chowan River cypress
Stacking peanuts, Northampton County, about 1939
Perquimans River, October 1996
Water lilies
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's motorcade passes the Carolina Building, Elizabeth City, August 1937
Motorcar crossing Albemarle Sound railroad bridge, longest in the world over navigable water at the time, about 1910
James Adams Floating Theater, docked in Edenton, about 1928
Scuppernongs, Perquimans County, October 1996
Jesse Perry's scuppernong vineyard, Perquimans County, October 1996
Polish farm buyers with agent at St. Helena Vineyard, Pender County, 1914
Boatbuilder Bryan Blake, Gloucester, November 1996
Boatyard, Marshallberg, August 1996
Jesse Perry aboard the Sea Jay, 1930s
Old trawler near Bonaparte's Landing, Brunswick County, August 1996
Barnhill Supply, Everetts, Martin County, March 1993
Robert "Kooles" Bonds at the steamer, Sunny Side Oyster Bar, Williamston, March 1993
Sans Souci ferry, Cashie River, March 1993
David Earley, ferry operator, Cashie River, March 1993
Capehart Fishery, near Black WalnutPoint, Albemarle Sound, 1880s
Herring nets, near Edenton, May 1949
Holy Innocents Episcopal Chapel, Avoca, Bertie County, September 1996
Scotch Hall bluff overlooking Albemarle Sound, September 1996
Train of poplar, pine, and tupelo logs, Roper Mill, Belhaven, 1907
Upper Alligator River, January 1989
Tupelo, Sweetwater Creek, Martin County, September 1990
Gardners Creek, East Martin County, September 1990
Big fields west of Kinston, 1991
Pitcher plants
Osprey
Bayard Wootten, Great Lake, Craven County, about 1910
Porte Crayon's Scraping Turpentine, 1857
Young longleaf-pine and wiregrass savanna, Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge, November 1996
Wilmington welcomes President William Howard Taft, November 1909
Strawberry festival, Wallace, Duplin County, 1936
Breaking new ground, Dutch settlement of Van Eden, Pender County, about 1913
Black River, March 1996
Out of the channel, Black River, March 1996
Bald cypress, Black River, March 1996
Ivanhoe Landing, Black River, March 1996
Old Curiosity Shop, windows still taped after Hurricane Bertha, Southport, August 1996
Treasures, Old Curiosity Shop, Southport, August 1996
Steamer Wilmington, Southport, early 1900s
Palmettos, Bald Head Island, about 1905
Cape Fear River pilots' tower, Southport, August 1996
Lone chimney, Halifax County, September 1996
U.S. revenue officers attack smugglers, Masonborough, New Hanover County, 1867
Ruin of the Daily Record, black press burned by white mob, Seventh and Church Streets, Wilmington, 1898
Old fishing shack, Core Sound, Carteret County, late 1970s
Egret rookery, Monkey Island, Currituck Sound, early 1980s
Earl and Mary Baum, on Currituck Sound near Monkey Island, early 1980s
Beaufort waterfront, from Piver's Island, about 1900
Girls with horseshoe crab, Beaufort, early 1900s
Ghost tree, Sea Level, November 1996
Front Street cottage, Taylor's Creek, Beaufort, with the Cheryl Jean and Carrot Island beyond, August 1996
Venus on Taylor's Creek, Beaufort, August 1996
Gregory Poole moored at Beaufort Fisheries, Taylor's Creek, Beaufort, August 1996
Davis Island Hunting Club, Core Sound, August 1996
Drum Inlet Coast Guard station at Core Banks, burned in 1970s, with Core Sound in foreground, Atlantic Ocean beyond
The Thorofare, Cedar Island marshes, Carteret County, November 1996
Wooden grave markers, Sea Level, 1996
What People are Saying About This
A special portrait of a special region.—Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, VA
A very personal account of the people, scenes, and events from the region.—Fayetteville Observer-Times
With the ease of an old storyteller and the knowledge of a naturalist, Simpson writes eloquently of coastal history, combining it with personal anecdotes.—Creative Loafing
An insightful and rich glance at an under-appreciated and under-explored region.—Coaster
For anyone seeking a memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying.—Our State
If you've lived the city life all your years or visited only the prime tourist spots on the coast, Simpson will introduce you to a North Carolina you've never experienced.—Coastwatch
Simpson brings the natural world so close that the reader can almost smell the rivers; the pine tar from the trees that gave North Carolina its nickname as the 'Tar Heel' state; and the sweet juniper water of the swamps.—Virginia Explorer
This son of the South has created a very entertaining read. . . . Into the Sound Country is a lark through a neglected but fascinating region of North Carolina.—Greensboro News and Record
A highly personal and impressionistic ramble through a 200-mile swath of North Carolina's coastal plain, from the Great Dismal Swamp south to the Cape Fear River. The sights, sounds, and smells of this region, along with his observations of nature and the anecdotes of the natives he meets, form an amiable pastiche with Simpson's own family history and that of eastern North Carolina.—Preservation Magazine
[A] lyrical and passionate portrayal of eastern North Carolina. . . . Part autobiography, memoir, travelogue, history, fisherman's guide and environmentalist's goad, Into the Sound Country is an important work. . . . Beautifully written and intelligently produced.—Charlotte Observer