Perry-Belch Fish Co. was founded in Colerain 1927 and reconstituted as Perry-Wynns Fish Co. in 1952. According to a summary of company papers at NCSU Libraries, “For decades, it was the largest freshwater herring fishery in the world, packing both herring and herring roe under the Tidewater Brand, the Bertie Brand and Chowan’s Best. It […]
Posts Tagged ‘david cecelski’
New in the collection: Herring labels from Colerain
Posted in Memorabilia Moment, tagged chowan river, colerain nc, david cecelski, good for tokens, herring fisheries, herring roe, perry-belch fish co, perry-wynns fish co, w s nixon & co on March 5, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Freeze of 1857 ranks with meteor shower, Hurricane Hazel
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged david cecelski, freeze of 1857, hurricane hazel, Isaac W. Hughes, john n benners, neuse river, pamlico county nc on December 30, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“The diary [of John N. Benners] is an almost daily account of the years 1857 to 1860. I open the old volume to the first page and I am immediately swept up: Jan. 24. 1857. The river still frozen, navigation entirely impeded. A large sea vessel frozen up at Wilkinson’s Point [in what is now […]
A 1925 lynching for which 10 men went to prison
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged david cecelski, joseph needleman, martin county nc, nc lynching on September 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“in 1925 a mob of white men broke into the Martin County jail and removed a young Jewish man named Joseph Needleman, who had been accused of raping a local woman named Effie Griffin. “They had carried him to the cemetery at the Skewarkey Primitive Baptist Church, where they castrated him and left him for […]
NC has its fingers pried loose from myth of 1898
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged alfred waddell, david cecelski, white supremacy, wilmington 1898 on August 13, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“According to the historian David S. Cecelski, presenting [Alfred] Waddell as a righteous campaigner for ‘sobriety and peace’ was standard in Wilmington until the 1990s. ‘I grew up in a small town in eastern North Carolina 90 miles from Wilmington,’ Cecelski says. ‘I had a book in my middle-school classroom that listed the 12 greatest […]
Weekend link dump: Banana trees to bateau poles
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged banana trees, bateau pole, dale earnhardt statue, dan river, david cecelski, draper nc, kannapolis nc, matthew brady, nc food, nc music hall of fame, nc slavery, slave children, slave photos on June 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
— Might those be banana trees in the supposed photo of North Carolina slave children? — “We thought it was just a stick,” recalls the Draper woman who pulled an iron-tipped, 19th century bateau pole from the Dan River. — On the wish list of the revived and relocated North Carolina Music Hall of Fame […]
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