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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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