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Close to Home: North Carolina Winter 2024
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The North Carolina Collection of the Forsyth County Public Library houses a broad range of non-circulating resources to suit your research needs. The room contains a wealth of local, state and federal information as well as archived issues of newspapers and magazines. Our knowledgeable staff will be happy to assist you with your project, whether you are an experienced researcher or just getting started. For help with questions about North Carolina, local history, or genealogy, please come visit us on the second floor of the Central Library in Winston-Salem, NC or call 336-703-3070 during regular business hours.
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Fifteen Hurricanes that Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We do Next by Jay BarnesThis informative and engaging book tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the present day. Hurricane historian Jay Barnes offers an illuminating and compelling account of the Carolinas' most recent storm disasters, Matthew and Florence, as well as thirteen other memorable hurricanes in the Tar Heel and Palmetto States, including Hazel, Hugo, Fran, and Floyd.
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Great Houses and Their Stories: Winston-Salem's Era of Success, 1912–1940
by Margaret Supplee Smith
In the early twentieth century, Winston-Salem was hailed as the "town of a hundred millionaires." Booming tobacco and textile manufacturing industries converged to make Winston-Salem the largest and richest city in all of North Carolina, and major architects flocked to the area to design for its newly wealthy clientele. Ambitious commercial buildings and gracious suburban estates abounded, hosting generations of families that shaped the economic future of the country. Author Margaret Supplee Smith, Ph.D., and photographer Jackson Smith tell the rich histories of more than 75 great houses through beautiful new photography, historic photographs, personal narratives, and oral histories. Through diligent research of historical records and interviews with residents and local historians, they've uncovered fascinating stories about the families whose fortunes shaped neighborhoods like Buena Vista, West Highlands, and Reynolda Park.
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George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina by Brent MartinSelf-taught photographer George Masa (born Masahara Iizuka in Osaka, Japan), arrived in Asheville, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century amid a period of great transition in the southern Appalachians. Masa's photographs from the 1920s and early 1930s are stunning windows into an era where railroads hauled out the remaining old-growth timber with impunity, new roads were blasted into hillsides, and an activist community emerged to fight for a new national park. Masa began photographing the nearby mountains and helping to map the Appalachian Trail, capturing this transition like no other photographer of his time. His images, along with his knowledge of the landscape, became a critical piece of the argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, compelling John D. Rockefeller to donate $5 million for initial land purchases. Despite being hailed as the “Ansel Adams of the Smokies,” Masa died, destitute and unknown, in 1933. In George Masa’s Wild Vision poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa’s photographs, accompanied by Martin’s reflections on Masa’s life and work.
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Remarkable Women of the Outer Banks by Hannah Bunn WestThe Outer Banks of North Carolina attract those with a conviction to dream and do. Explorers, pirates, lifesavers and the world's first pilots decorate the halls of local history. Some of the Outer Banks' greatest accomplishments are due to daring women who pushed the odds. Eleanor Dare created a new life amidst a doomed colonial expedition, Chrissy Bowser found her freedom as the Civil War rocked Roanoke Island, and Irene Tate watched the Wright brothers assemble their glider in her front yard then went on to become a record-setting pilot herself. The women in this book fought for their homes. They stepped outside the traditional roles of their day and age, seeking to preserve its history and heritage. They saved sand dunes and moved lighthouses. Local author Hannah West tells the stories of these remarkable women.
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Virtual Genealogy Help Tuesday - Thursday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Virtual Program with ZoomChasing after family secrets? Let us help you catch them. Schedule a virtual appointment with a librarian to help you do your genealogy. Go to Forsyth Computer Training Bridge to schedule a virtual genealogy help session using Zoom. We recommend that you download Zoom before the appointment. Appointments will last for approximately 30 minutes. If you have any problems scheduling, please call us at 336-703-3070. If you need help using a genealogical database and do not have a library card, you'll need to get a library card. Visit our website for more information about registering for an FCPL card.
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One-On-One Genealogy Help Drop-In Hours Tuesdays from 10-12:30 and 2-3:30 Thursdays from 10-11:30 and 1-3:30 Call 336-703-3070 to make an appointment. North Carolina Room at the Central Library Visit us for assistance with your genealogy research. Sessions are for 30 minutes a day. Bring your questions!
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