We wanted to point out an interesting digital project from the Durham County Public Library:
The Women Who Ran the Schools: The Jeanes Teachers and Durham County’s Rural Black Schools.
(Former NCC employee Jill Wagy had a hand in it.)
Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State
We wanted to point out an interesting digital project from the Durham County Public Library:
The Women Who Ran the Schools: The Jeanes Teachers and Durham County’s Rural Black Schools.
(Former NCC employee Jill Wagy had a hand in it.)
“Maybe [Mick Kelly] would be a great inventor. She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears.”
— From “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” (1940), Carson McCullers’ first novel, begun in Charlotte and completed in Fayetteville
Singer-playwright Suzanne Vega recalls this prescient line in an interview about “Carson McCullers Talks About Love,” opening Thursday Off-Broadway.
McCullers lived in North Carolina during the late 1930s while her husband, Reeves, was working as a credit investigator. During her stay in Fayetteville she also wrote “Reflections in a Golden Eye.”