Winter - Spring 2011
From the Corner of Elm and Friendly
Title: From the Corner of Elm and Friendly
Creator: Shelley Crisp
Subject: Shelby, North Carolina, Smithsonian Institution, New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, memory, history, Christine Rucker, Phoebe Zerwick, Yadkin River, Neuse River, Trent River, stories, Reynolds Price, Caldwell Laureate, Fred Chappell, “Forever Mountain”, home
Description: Executive Director of the North Carolina Humanities Council, Shelley Crisp, introduces the publication reflecting on the importance of place to celebrated Southern authors and musicians.
John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities
Title: North Carolina Humanities Council Celebrates Fred Chappell as the 2010 Caldwell Laureate
Creator: The North Carolina Humanities Council
Subject: Fred Chappell, John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Michael Parker, Lee Smith, M.F. A. Writing Program, Ed Southern, O. Max Gardner Award, Burlington Industries Professor of English, Fred Chappell Creative Writing Fellowship, Poet Laureate of North Carolina, Sir Walter Raleigh Prize, the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, Academie Francaise, Award in Literature, National Institute of Arts and Letters, North Caroliniana Society Award, the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the Ragan-Rubin Award, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Award, Appalachian Voices, Teachers Institute
Description: Fred Chappell is selected as the 2010 Caldwell Laureate.
Title: An Ode to “Ole Fred”
Creator: Becky Anderson
Subject: Fred Chappell, moments, lifetime, teacher, student, family, “My Grandmother Washes Her Vessels”, inquiry, Susan Nicholls, poetry, short stories, novels, language, “Forever Mountain”
Description: Becky Anderson gives opening remarks as she presents her brother, Fred Chappell, as the 2010 Caldwell Laureate.
Contributor: Fred Chappell
Crossroads
Title: Carved By the Currents: Yadkin River Story
Creator: Phoebe Zerwick
Subject: Christine Rucker, Yadkin River, journey, Blue Ridge Mountains, Uwharrie River, Pee Dee, East Bend, Rockford, Siloam, Shallow Ford, Donnaha Park, Jack Dobson, farmers, land, community, Barney Hill, Lillian Satterfield, relationships, landowners, tenant farmers, stories, “Yadkin River Story: A River of the People”, Yadkin Cultural Arts Center, Sawtooth School for the Visual Art, Pilot Mountain
Description: Wake Forest University professor, Phoebe Zerwick, reflects on themes of community, home, and soul found in her joint exhibit with Christine Rucker, “Yadkin River Story: A River of the People”.
Title: A Rive of the People: A Common Thread
Creator: Shelley Crisp
Subject: Surry, Yadkin, Dean Naujoks, document, experience, Yadkin Riverkeeper, Yadkin Pee Dee River Basin, education, advocacy, action, Yadkin River Story project, Christine Rucker, photographs
Description: Executive Director Shelley Crisp writes on the Humanities Council funded project, “Yadkin River Story: A River of the People”.
Title: A Community with a River in Its Soul
Creator: written by Phoebe Zerwick, photos by Christine Rucker
Subject: Yadkin River Valley, Bear Creek Baptist Church, Fisher River, Siloam, Marion Venable, John Mitchell, Donnaha Park, Montie Hamby, Lewis Fork, Wilkes County, Yadkin Pee Dee River Trail Association
Description: Phoebe Zerwick and Christine Rucker provide a glimpse into their exhibit “Yadkin River Story: A River of the People”.
Road Scholars
Title: Soundings
Creator: Ben Casey
Subject: Eastern North Carolina, Walden Pond, Craven County, Pamlico County, Neuse River, Dawson’s Creek, Coastal Plain, Wake County, Raleigh, adventure, wonder, journey, Dude Andrews
Description: Road Scholar Ben Casey reflects on the personal significance of the waterways of Eastern North Carolina.
Let's Talk About It
Title: The “Third Place”: North Carolina Libraries
Creator: Mary L. Boone
Subject: public library, “third place”, community, gather, engage, Ray Oldenburg, the Great Good Place, civic engagement, books, reading, Internet, public access, computers, materials, taxes, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, archives, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
Description: 2005 State Librarian of North Carolina Mary L. Boone writes on the important role libraries continue to play in the Information Age and in the fabric of the community.
Linda Flowers Literary Award 2010
Title: Legacy
Creator: Traci Lazenby Elliot
Subject: Nanny’s house, messages, death, farm, memory, witness
Description: Traci Lazenby Elliot’s “Legacy” is her first published work of fiction and the winner of the 2010 Linda Flowers Literary Award.
Title: Of Guilt and Forgiveness
Creator: Barbara Presnell
Subject: Linda Flowers Literary Award, Traci Lazenby Elliot, “Legacy”, spirit, North Carolinians, Southerners
Description: Barbara Presnell, poet, writer, and 2004 Linda Flowers Literary Awardee, presents the 2010 Linda Flowers Literary Award to Traci Lazenby Elliot and remarks on being infused with the legacy of Linda Flowers.
Teachers Institute
Title: Where Is Our Place in the World? Documenting Community Through Photography
Creator: Rob Amberg
Subject: The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Casteneda, photography, camera, external reality, documentary, Madison County, North Carolina, relationship, images, environment, unmapped
Description: Writer, photographer, Road Scholar, and Visiting Scholar for the 2010 Teachers Institute Summer Seminar, Rob Amberg, reflects on documentary photography and the relationship between the photographer and the subject.
Title: AlumNews
Creator: The North Carolina Humanities Council
Subject: Nonya Brown-Chesney, Caroline Cordell Courter, Jasmine L. Hart, Michelle Ray Hunt, Holly Jordan, Mark Meacham, Rebecca Meacham, Kelly White Payne, Angela Taylor, Mary Kent Whitaker, Tammy Young, Joy Kinley
Description: Alumni from the Teachers Institute share news from their professional lives.
Museum on Main Street
Title: The Melody Lingers On
Creator: Darrell Stover
Subject: Museum on Main Street, Dob Gibson Theatre, Shelby, New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, Mount Airy Museum of Regional History, Warren County Memorial Library, Museum of Albemarle, Arts Council of Wayne County, Mars Hill College, Destination Cleveland County, heritage, identity, humanities, Rhythm and Roots Run, “Voices Serving the People”, Haliwa-Saponi, Elizabeth City, Goldsboro, Road Scholar, Our State, Southern Cultures, Carolina Country, Linda Carlisle, Virginia Foxx, G.K. Butterfield, Richard Burr, Wayne County Public Library
Description: Program Officer and MoMS coordinator Darrell Stover reflects on the success of the state’s first Museum of Main Street tour.
From the Field
Title: Homes Lost, Stolen, Escaped, Found
Creator: Lynden Harris
Subject: Hillsborough, dialogue, identity, place, access, homelessness, “Home Is Not One Story”, Hidden Voices, refugees, immigrants, famine, economics, housing displacement, crisis, transition, Durham, Winson-Salem, Chapel Hill, NC School of Design, Animation Window
Description: Lynden Harris, founder of Hillsborough based non-profit Hidden Voices, writes on the public humanities project “Home Is Not One Story”, narratives about homelessness in North Carolina.
North Carolina Humanities Council
Title: Why I Support the Humanities Council
Creator: Calvin Hall
Subject: Appalachian State University, African American Journalists: Autobiography as Memoir and Manifesto, trustee, North Carolina Humanities Council
Description: Assistant professor at Appalachian State University and Humanities Council trustee Calvin Hall reflects on why he is proud to be a part of the mission behind the Humanities Council.
Title: Asheville Wordfest, Recipient of the 2010 Award for Excellence in the Public Humanities
Creator: The North Carolina Humanities Council
Subject: Mountain Area Information Network, “Asheville Wordfest”, poets, festival, readings, open microphone, workshops, discussions, presentations, Laura Hope-Gill, The Flying Words Project, refugee, developmental disabilities, different world-views
Description: “Asheville Wordfest”, a three-day poetry festival begun in 2008, wins the 2010 Award for Excellence in the Public Humanities
The Last Word
Title: Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet Series
Creator: The North Carolina Humanities Council
Subject: North Carolina Poetry Society, Bill Blackley, Marie Gilbert, Fred Chappell, North Carolina Poetry Society, North Carolina Center for the Book, Greensboro Group, North Carolina Writers’ Network, John Hoppenthaler, Hannah Sloan, Catherine Carter, James Cox, Becky Gould Gibson, Celisa Steel
Description: Six poets and their compositions are honored from the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poets Series.
