Download or read book South Brunswick Islands Holden Beach Ocean Isle Beach and Sunset Beach written by Pamela M. Koontz and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Brunswick Islands--Holden Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, and Sunset Beach--are man-made barrier islands formed when the North Carolina section of the Intracoastal Waterway was constructed between 1930 and 1940. In the late 1940s, Odell Williamson dreamed of a tranquil, family-vacation island and began buying tracts of land that would later become Ocean Isle Beach. This seven-mile-long island was incorporated as the town of Ocean Isle Beach in 1959. Mannon C. Gore envisioned the three miles of Sunset Beach as a peaceful residential community when he purchased the island in 1955. With over eight miles of oceanfront, Holden Beach is the longest and the largest of the three islands in the group. Each island boasts a unique character and has remained quiet with pristine beaches and a focus on families.
Download or read book Sunset Beach A History written by Jacqueline DeGroot and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ocean Isle Beach A History Remembrance written by Jacqueline DeGroot and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about an eight-mile barrier island on the Atlantic coast. It faces due south, on the same latitude as Los Angeles, California and Damascus, Syria. The island enjoys a mild climate and its oceanfront consists entirely of sandy beach. It wasn't an island until 1934 when it was severed from the mainland by the construction of a section of the Intracoastal Waterway. On March 1, 1524, Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine in the employ of the King of France, made his first landfall at nearby Cape Fear. He stayed anchored off shore in the area that included the island for three days before exploring the North American coast. We are indebted to Verrazano for describing the inhabitants of our area in his day: These people go altogether naked except only that they cover their privy parts with certain skins of beasts like unto martens, which they fasten onto a girdle made of grass, very artfully wrought, hanged about with tails of diverse beasts, which round about their bodies hang dangling down to their knees. Some of them wear garlands of birds' feathers. The people are of color russet, and not much unlike Saracens, their hair black, thick and not very long, which they tie together in a knot behind, and wear it like a tail. They are well featured in their limbs, of mean [average] stature, and commonly somewhat bigger than we. After Verrazano, what is now Ocean Isle, slept in solitude for hundreds of years, disturbed only by a visit in 1791 of George Washington on his Southern Tour and by the U. S. Coast Guard's mounted sailors who patrolled the island's beach in WWll. In the 1920s, the long repose ended with an awakening by prohibition and the jazz age. Young flappers expended energy dancing the Charleston and imbibing bootlegged gin in Ocean Isle's first commercial structure, a honky-tonk on the island's welcoming beach.
Download or read book The Mailbox written by Marybeth Whalen and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centered on a real landmark on the coast of North Carolina, The Mailbox blends intriguing folklore and true faith with raw contemporary issues that affect every woman. When Lindsey Adams first visits the Kindred Spirit mailbox at Sunset Beach, she has no idea that twenty years later she will still be visiting the mailbox—still pouring out her heart in letters that summarize the best and worst parts of her life. Returning to Sunset for her first vacation since her husband left her, Lindsey struggles to put her sorrow into words. Memories surface of her first love, Campbell—and the rejection that followed. When Campbell reappears in her life, Lindsey must decide whether to trust in love again or guard herself from greater pain. The Mailbox is a rich novel about loss, hope, and the beauty of second chances.
Download or read book The Creatures of Holden Beach and the Murder They Did NOT Commit written by Chris Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early one spring morning the residents of Holden Beach N.C. find what appear to be two aliens washed up on the beach. Alicia Greengrass, the local movie starlet is home from Hollywood and is first to discover the aliens during a morning stroll. Her cell phone pictures are circulating on Twitter before the police arrive, but the social media frenzy is just getting started. The police soon discover another body on the beach; the local bar owner Gerald Reed has been murdered. Sheriff Stan Stoney knows the aliens are a well-orchestrated hoax designed to go viral, but the increasing public interest is impeding his murder investigation. The distraction of the aliens is tolerated until the sheriff concludes that the two events appear to be somehow connected. The pranksters must be found, because they may hold a key to solving the crime. But he knows one thing for certain: The creatures did NOT commit the murder!
Download or read book Life After Life written by Jill McCorkle and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Jill McCorkle takes us on a splendid journey through time and memory in this, her tenth work of fiction. Life After Life is filled with a sense of wonder at our capacity for self-discovery at any age. And the residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of life’s most profound discoveries and are some of the most true-to-life characters that you are ever likely to meet in fiction. Delivered with her trademark wit, Jill McCorkle’s constantly surprising novel illuminates the possibilities of second chances, hope, and rediscovering life right up to the very end. She has conjured an entire community that reminds us that grace and magic can—and do—appear when we least expect it. -- from the Algonquin catalog
Download or read book History of Edgecombe County North Carolina written by Joseph Kelly Turner and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remembering Edgewater Beach Hotel written by John Holden and Kathryn Gemperle and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nothing epitomized the glamour and excitement of Chicago's jazz age and war years like the fabled Edgewater Beach Hotel. Much more than a hotel, the Edgewater Beach was a world unto itself--the only urban resort of its kind in the nation. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan on Chicago's North Side, it offered swimming, golf, tennis, dancing, theater, fine dining, exclusive shopping, fabulous floor shows, unique watering holes, and, of course, some of the best jazz and swing music of its era. It even had its own pioneering radio station, which broadcasted across the nation and burnished its fame. Many of the legends of the big band era played its stages, and many of Hollywood's leading stars crossed its footlights. It was a stomping ground for both the rich and famous as well as ordinary people who wanted a small taste of the high life. The Edgewater Beach Hotel was world renowned. But the social upheaval of the 1960s, the ascendance of automobile culture, and rapid urban change led to its demise."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Holden Beach History written by and published by . This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY winning #1 Family Beach, this is the first-hand account of how Holden Beach grew to be a beloved vacation destination enjoyed by generations. Join the founder of Holden Beach, John F. Holden, on a journey through the rich and storied history of this tight-knit coastal North Carolina community. Uncover the stories of the people, places, and events that have shaped it over the years. From shipwrecks, to hurricanes, to accidental rodeos, you're sure to learn something you didn't know before. Part memoir, part historical account, the book provides a nuanced understanding of the town and its place in the larger context of American and North Carolina history, all while offering a poignant look at the challenges and triumphs that have characterized Holden Beach's story.Whether you are a long-time resident, visitor, or simply a lover of history, this book will inspire you to appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Holden Beach and its enduring spirit. "The story of Holden Beach, with its beginning, its magnificent sand dunes, its stalwart old shipwrecks, its fish shack, its fishermen, its flawless beach, and its continued existence as a quiet and wonderful place for North Carolina's young people to grow up-all needs to be a part of this state's recorded history. John F. Holden has done this for us in an eloquent way."-A. Craig Phillips, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, North Carolina
Download or read book Holden Beach History written by John F. Holden and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mailbox by the Sea written by Mark Grady and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy and Mason met by chance at Britt's Donuts on the Carolina Beach Boardwalk during summer break following their junior year of high school. A simple talk and a walk on the beach led to an innocent summer romance. They fell deeply in love. However, Amy's mother, Catherine, sees Mason as a threat to her dream for Amy to attend the Julliard School of Music and become a famous violinist. Using orchestrated manipulation and lies, Catherine succeeds in tearing Amy and Mason apart. From the time Amy was 12, she would make summer visits to her Aunt Mary's home at Sunset Beach. Their favorite time was spent making the walk to the Kindred Spirit Mailbox, placed on the dunes of the beach many years ago by a couple in love. Amy and Mary would spend hours reading the letters and notes of love, heartbreak and loss left in the mailbox by visitors from all over the world. Would a visit by Mason to that mailbox, 17 years after he last saw Amy, change his life forever? Mailbox by the Sea features an ending you will not soon forget.
Download or read book Race Place and Memory written by Margaret M. Mulrooney and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit specific narratives, Race, Place, and Memory charts the ebb and flow of racial violence in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the 1730s to the present day. Margaret Mulrooney argues that white elites have employed public spaces, memorials, and celebrations to maintain the status quo. The port city has long celebrated its white colonial revolutionary origins, memorialized Decoration Day, and hosted Klan parades. Other events, such as the Azalea Festival, have attempted to present a false picture of racial harmony to attract tourists. And yet, the revolutionary acts of Wilmington’s African American citizens—who also demanded freedom, first from slavery and later from Jim Crow discrimination—have gone unrecognized. As a result, beneath the surface of daily life, collective memories of violence and alienation linger among the city’s black population. Mulrooney describes her own experiences as a public historian involved in the centennial commemoration of the so-called Wilmington Race Riot of 1898, which perpetuated racial conflicts in the city throughout the twentieth century. She shows how, despite organizers’ best efforts, a white-authored narrative of the riot’s contested origins remains. Mulrooney makes a case for public history projects that recognize the history-making authority of all community members and prompts us to reconsider the memories we inherit. A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Download or read book History of the Colony of New Haven Before and After the Union with Connecticut written by Edward Rodolphus Lambert and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wilmington Ten written by Kenneth Robert Janken and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $500,000 in damage, and the firebombing of a white-owned store, before the National Guard restored uneasy peace. Despite glaring irregularities in the subsequent trial, ten young persons were convicted of arson and conspiracy and then sentenced to a total of 282 years in prison. They became known internationally as the Wilmington Ten. A powerful movement arose within North Carolina and beyond to demand their freedom, and after several witnesses admitted to perjury, a federal appeals court, also citing prosecutorial misconduct, overturned the convictions in 1980. Kenneth Janken narrates the dramatic story of the Ten, connecting their story to a larger arc of Black Power and the transformation of post-Civil Rights era political organizing. Grounded in extensive interviews, newly declassified government documents, and archival research, this book thoroughly examines the 1971 events and the subsequent movement for justice that strongly influenced the wider African American freedom struggle.
Download or read book Tales of the Silver Coast written by Miller Pope and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of the Silver Coast written by Miller Pope and published by Islnd Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the struggles and victories that shaped Brunswick County from the first contact of Europeans with native Americans, to the successive administration of the Lord's Proprietors, royal governors, British crown, leaders of a new nation-many of whom hailed from this small but influential corner of North Carolina. Discover Brunsiwck's rich Civil War history, scenic roadways and waterways, and current day towns and townships. In Tales of the Silver Coast, Miller Pope recounts the tales of pirates, privateers and plantation owners, politicians and prohibition rum-runners-the many colorful people and diverse places of southeastern North Carolina in this engaging collection of stories illustrated in his distinctive style.
Download or read book Paint a Picture written by Pam Holden and published by Red Rocket Readers. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents key letters of the alphabet in both upper and lower case through pictures of things that begin with each letter.
