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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )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. [...]
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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Susan Barringer Wells will have a book signing at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro NC on Friday, February 15, 2008, at 7:00 PM. Susan will be signing copies of her new book, “A Game Called Salisbury.” The book is a non fictitional account of the Lyerly murders that occurred over [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My favorite coffee shop in the world, and one of my favorite places in the world, is Tate Street Coffee Shop, near UNCG, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Tate Street Coffee is a great coffee shop but it is more than that. It has a lot of the atmosphere of “Cheers”, where everybody [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Several responses from descendants of the Lyerly Family, subjects of A Game Called Salisbury by Susan Barringer Wells have not been answered. This is an attempt to get answers from the author. Below are the posted responses by Lyerly family descendants:
Sheena Lyerly
December 28, 2007
Issac Lyerly was my Great-great
Grandfather, and you wrote in your
book that Joseph [...]
If you want to know about the real people of North Carolina, the old times, of struggles to stay alive, and of the oral traditions of story telling, passed down and transported from the British Isles, study the life of Ray and Rosa Hicks. Ray passed away a few years ago. I had an opportunity [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ok, I know, this blog is all about North Carolina. However, we are still in Everett Washington and I am going to post one more article about this area. We just got back from Whidby Coffee Shop, which overlooks the Puget Sound across from the ferry landing. This is one of my favorite coffee shops [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )News and information about North Carolina visit: NCrealestateforum.com
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