NC Transportation Museum's Old Albemarle River Boat Tour Recommended Reading List

If we get any of this reading done, it will be after this trip if we don't learn enough on the trip. I am posting the list here in case anyone else is interested in learning more about the Northeast coastal area of North Carolina.

Recommended Readings from Bland Simpson

Written by Bland:

• The Great Dismal:  A Carolinian's Swamp Memoir     
• Into the Sound Country:  A Carolinian's Coastal Plain  (with photography by Ann Cary Simpson)
• The Inner Islands:  A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicles  (with photography by Ann Cary Simpson)
• The Coasts of Carolina (with photography by Scott Taylor)
• Little Rivers & Waterway Tales (with photography by Ann Cary Simpson)

Online sources recommended by Bland:

• "A Feast of Brick"

City Portrait:  Elizabeth City

https://www.ourstate.com/city-portrait-elizabeth-city/

• "A Sound Country Serenade"

https://www.ourstate.com/sound-country-serenade/

• "James Adams Floating Theatre Provided a Big Show on the Sounds"

https://www.ourstate.com/show-boat/

• "Fresh Catch"

Honoring the Waters that Provide Our Bounty

https://www.ourstate.com/honoring-the-waters-that-provide-our-bounty/

• "The History of the Scuppernong"

In Columbia, the river that gave its name to our grape is a lifeline

https://www.ourstate.com/scuppernong-nc/

Recommended Readings from David Cecelski

Written by David:

• A Historian’s Coast: Adventures into the Tidewater Past
• The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina
• The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves’ Civil War

Online sources recommended by David:

• On the history of the great Albemarle shad and herring fisheries—this entry is the introduction to a 10-part series on them that I am putting up this week, one day at a time.

https://davidcecelski.com/2018/03/25/welcome-to-herring-week/

• "The Constant, Haunting Music of the Geese." This entry is about Lake Mattamuskeet and Rachel Carson. It's not exactly Albemarle-y, but I think it's close enough. It was originally published in the N.C. Lit. Rv. 

https://davidcecelski.com/2017/08/30/the-constant-haunting-music-of-the-geese/

• On Edna Ferber, the James Adams Floating Theatre & Native Americans around the Albemarle--

https://davidcecelski.com/2018/03/10/finding-edna-ferbers-showboat/

Information from Tom Earnhardt

As an additional note guest speaker Tom Earnhardt will be filming our trip to feature our experiences in an upcoming episode of his original TV series “Exploring North Carolina” on UNC-TV!  If you are unfamiliar with his show, you may want to review past episodes here: https://www.unctv.org/watch/unctv-originals/exploring-nc/