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Posted on March 11, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Books, Charlotte, Education, Family, Games, Greensboro, History, Life, Literature, Media, NC cities, NC news, Opinions, People, Press, Reading, Review, Salisbury, Writing, culture | Tags: A Game Called Salisbury, angry mob, Ashville Citizen, authors, book reviews, book signings, Books, Charlotte Observer, Greensboro Daily News, Lyerly family, lynching, Mecklenburg County Jail, racial attitudes, Salisbury Post, snubbed?, south, Susan Barringer Wells, Susan Wells |
There is a rumor circulating that the Charlotte Observer has snubbed Susan Wells, penname Susan Barringer Wells. Susan has written a new book, “A Game Called Salisbury.” The book is about the murder of the Lyerly Family in 1906 and the subsequent arrest and later lynching of 3 sharecroppers. The book is also about racial [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Books, Education, Family, Games, History, Life, Literature, Media, NC cities, NC news, North Carolina, People, Reading, Review, Salisbury, School, Writing, culture | Tags: A Game Called Salisbury, book review, Lyerly family, lynchings, Media, North Carolina, Professor George Tex Wood, Review, Salisbury NC, Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College, Susan Barringer Wells, Twain |
Professor George Tex Wood of Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College has provided a review of “A Game Called Salisbury”, the new book by Susan Barringer Wells:
“…Faulknerian in its revelations and observations of human nature, clearly spotlighting the question of real responsibility not just for active human evil, but also for spawning its activity. [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Books, Education, Family, History, Life, Literature, NC cities, NC news, North Carolina, People, Reading, Review, Salisbury, Writing, culture | Tags: A Game Called Salisbury, Barringer, Deputy Pat Sloop, history club, innocents hanged, Lyerly descendants, Lyerly family, racial undertones, Salisbury, Salisbury NC lynching, Susan Barringer Wells, Wells |
Susan Barringer Wells has written a new book, “A Game Called Salisbury” about the murder of the Lyerly Family in Salisbury NC over a hundred years ago and the lynching of 3 suspects. The book explores the evidence and the racial undertones leading to the lynching of three black sharecroppers. Susan is a distant relative [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2008. Filed under: 2008, Announcements, Books, Education, Entertainment, Family, Greensboro, History, Life, Literature, Media, NC cities, NC news, NC tourism, North Carolina, Opinions, People, Press, Reading, Review, Writing, culture | Tags: A Game Called Salisbury, Barnes & Noble, book review, Greensboro Daily News, Greensboro NC, New York Times, North Carolina, Susan Barringer Wells |
Sales of Susan Barringer Wells’ new book, A Game Called Salisbury are progressing well. Susan was featured in the Greensboro Daily News, I believe on Sunday, February 10, 2008. Susan has a book signing coming up at Barnes & Noble in Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro this week. I wonder if anyone from the New [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2008. Filed under: Charlotte, Charlotte dining, Entertainment, Family, Food, History, Leadership, Life, Music, NC cities, NC homes, NC real estate, North Carolina, People, culture, real estate | Tags: coffee shops, Habit Restore, Habitat for Humanity, Julia Maulden, Julia's Coffee Shop, live music, NC, North Carolina |
I just read this incredible story and wanted to pass it along. Julia Maulden was an incredibly giving person and very active in Habitat for Humanity. The coffee shop adjacent to the Habitat Restore on Wendover Ave in Charlotte NC is named for her. Help continue her legacy of giving by visiting Julia’s Coffee Shop and [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Education, Entertainment, Family, Games, Greensboro, History, Life, NC cities, NC news, North Carolina, People, Recreation, Tech, Technology, culture | Tags: board games, chess, chinese checkers, deflection, deflection board game, Greensboro, rocket science, Taylor, Theodore Taylor |
What do board games, rocket science, chess and chinese checkers have in common? I can think of numerous links, including high level neural processes. One of my favorite expressions is “I am not a rocket scientist”. I may have used this expression several years ago when I was having a conversation with my good friend [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Education, Entertainment, History, Life, Media, NC cities, NC news, NC tourism, NC travel, News, North Carolina, School, TV, Television, culture, travel | Tags: North Carolina, Lost Colony, Fort San Juan, Morganton NC, Catawba river valley, first european colony, Spanish |
The Lost Colony in Manteo North Carolina. Most people, including myself, believed the English colony to be the first European colony in the US. However, recent archeological finds near Morganton NC have revealed a Spanish colony settled in NC 30 years prior to The Lost Colony. The Spanish built Fort San Juan in the Catawba [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008. Filed under: Announcements, Greensboro, History, Life, Literature, Money, NC cities, NC news, NC real estate, NC tourism, News, North Carolina, People, Politics, culture, real estate | Tags: downtown Greensboro, Fred Preyer, Greensboro NC, Historical building, John F Kennedy, L Richardson Preyer, Martin Luther King, O'Henry, Vicks Vaporub, William Porter |
A great historical building in downtown Greensboro NC is for lease at 121 South Elm St. William Clarkson Porter, a druggist, built the building in 1873. O’Henry worked for his uncle. Later, Lunsford Richardson, the inventor of Vicks Vaporub, bought the building. The building is composed of 2 stories of over 9,000 square feet of [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2008. Filed under: Education, Family, Government, History, Home, Leadership, Life, Media, NC cities, NC homes, NC news, NC travel, North Carolina, People, Politics, School, TV, Television, culture | Tags: North Carolina, NC, Sam Ervin, Watergate, Morganton, NC public TV, Harvard Law School |
I just got through watching a documentary on NC Public
TV about Senator Sam, Sam Ervin. Sam Ervin is best known
for chairing the Watergate Committee, his knowledge of the
Constitution and his down home wit. He was known to say “I
am just a simple country lawyer from North Carolina.” Well,
he was from NC, but he was a [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2008. Filed under: Dating, Entertainment, Greensboro, History, Life, Media, NC cities, NC news, NC tourism, NC travel, North Carolina, People, TV, Television, culture, travel | Tags: ghosts, Greensboro, High Point, Jamestown, Lydia, NC ghosts, North Carolina |
One of the more famous ghosts of NC is Lydia, who purportedly haunts an old underpass on highway 70 near Jamestown NC. Jamestown is a small town between Greensboro and High Point. The first time I heard of Lydia was probably in the late 50’s on The Good Morning Show on WFMY TV, hosted by [...]
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