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Spooky North Carolina : tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and other local lore / by Schlosser, S. E.,author.(CARDINAL)357202; Hoffman, Paul G.,illustrator.(CARDINAL)556026;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252)."Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-five creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in North Carolina. The spirit of a railroad flagman shines his lantern along the tracks near Maco, where he lost his head in a train accident. The ghost of a girl haunts the grave robbers who stole her corpse to use in a college medical department. And in a swamp outside Smithfield, a grisly mass hanging is re-created on dark nights. All this and much more!" --

Subjects: Haunted places; Ghosts; Folklore;

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Gilded Age cocktails : history, lore, and recipes from America's golden age / by Tichi, Cecelia,1942-author.(CARDINAL)719089;

"The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention-the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane-and none more welcome than the new and novel beverage heralded as the cocktail. Known as the Gilded Age, these years became the Golden Age of Cocktails, including the classic Manhattan and Martini that persist to this day. Scores of whiskey drinks, cooled with ice chips or cubes that chimed against the glass, proved doubly pleasing when mixed, shaken, or stirred with special flavorings, juices, and fruits. The dazzling new drinks flourished coast to coast at sporting events, luncheons and balls, on ocean liners and yachts, in barrooms, summer resorts, hotels, railroad train club cars, and private homes. Celebrity bartenders rose to fame in New Orleans, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Virginia City, Nevada, among other locales. These Olympians of the bar invented drinks for "Ivy" colleges and concocted beverages for exotic locales, from Hawaii to the frozen northland of the Klondike, site of the Gold Rush of 1898. Fame and infamy alike qualified an "honoree" for a Gilded Age cocktail. Bartenders poured their liquid secrets for dance hall girls and industrial potentates, including William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper mogul, and "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad king. The designated "cocktail hour" of the Gilded Age might begin early in the day, when under the influence of the "hangover" one needed the "hair of the dog that bit." It might continue unabated until, at last, the bottles were corked and set aside-ready for the following day. The Gilded Age cocktail went "underground" during Prohibition, but launched the first of many generations whose palettes thrilled to a panoply of "artistically mixed drinks.""--Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Cocktails;

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Super 8 [videorecording] / by Abrams, J. J.(Jeffrey Jacob),1966-screenwriter,film producer,film director.(CARDINAL)535321; Burk, Bryan,1968-film producer.(CARDINAL)813960; Chandler, Kyle,actor.(CARDINAL)787080; Courtney, Joel,1996-actor.; Fanning, Elle,1998-actor.(CARDINAL)346590; Fong, Larry,cinematographer.(CARDINAL)848876; Lee, Ryan,1996-actor.; Michalka, A. J.(Amanda Joy),1991-actor.(CARDINAL)550649; Riedel, Guy,film producer.; Spielberg, Steven,1946-film producer.(CARDINAL)148835; Amblin Entertainment (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)355000; Bad Robot (Firm),production company.(CARDINAL)815184; Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)287167; Paramount Pictures Corporation,presenter.(CARDINAL)141482;

Visual effects & animation by Industrial Light & Magic ; visual effects producer, Chantal Feghali ; music by Michael Giacchino ; costume designer, Ha Nguyen ; edited by Mary Jo Markey, Maryann Brandon ; production designer, Martin Whist ; director of photography, Larry Fong.Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Ryan Lee.In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witnesses a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon they suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local deputy tries to uncover the truth, something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.MPAA rating: PG-13; for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, language and some drug use.DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.

Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Science fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Coming of age; Extraterrestrial beings; Friendship; Human-alien encounters; Railroad accidents; Super-8 motion pictures;

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How to get away with Myrtle / by Bunce, Elizabeth C.,author.(CARDINAL)486706;

Myrtle Hardcastle has no desire to go on a relaxing travel excursion with her aunt Helena when there are More Important things to be done at home, like keeping close tabs on criminals and murder trials. Unfortunately, she has no say in the matter. So off Myrtle goes--with her governess, Miss Judson, and cat, Peony, in tow--on a fabulous private railway coach headed for the English seaside. Myrtle is thrilled to make the acquaintance of Mrs. Bloom, a professional insurance investigator aboard to protect the priceless Northern Lights tiara. But before the train reaches its destination, both the tiara and Mrs. Bloom vanish. When Myrtle arrives, she and Peony discover a dead body in the baggage car. Someone has been murdered--with Aunt Helena's sewing shears. The trip is derailed, the local police are inept, and Scotland Yard is in no rush to arrive. What's a smart, bored Young Lady of Quality stranded in a washed-up carnival town to do but follow the evidence to find out which of her fellow travelers is a thief and a murderer?Ages 9-12.Grades 4-6.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Railroad travel; Murder; Theft;

Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 23

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We carry their bones : The search for justice at the Dozier School for Boys / by Kimmerle, Erin H.,author.;

Author's note -- Chapter 1: Opening the Earth -- Chapter 2: New light -- Chapter 3: Graveyard -- Chapter 4: The Battle of Boot Hill -- Chatper 5: "Satan has his seat" -- Chapter 6: A meeting with the Chief -- Chapter 7:"Hell on Earth" -- Chapter 8: "We can't forget what happened in Jackson County" -- Chapter 9: "Oftentimes, history doesn't include the good parts" -- Chapter 10: "Thank you all for your good work" -- Chapter 11: Reconstruction -- Chapter 12: Identification -- Chapter 13: "It's not even past" -- Chapter 14: "Where is he?" -- Chapter 15: "The unimaginable happened at Dozier" -- Chapter 16: "You have the truth on your side" -- Chapter 17: What remains -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index"With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad. Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School—the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Nickel Boys—and the contentious process to exhume the graves of the boys buried there in order to reunite them with their families. The Arthur G. Dozier Boys School was a well-guarded secret in Florida for over a century, until reports of cruelty, abuse, and "mysterious" deaths shut the institution down in 2011. Established in 1900, the juvenile reform school accepted children as young as six years of age for crimes as harmless as truancy or trespassing. The boys sent there, many of whom were Black, were subject to brutal abuse, routinely hired out to local farmers by the school’s management as indentured labor, and died either at the school or attempting to escape its brutal conditions. In the wake of the school’s shutdown, Erin Kimmerle, a leading forensic anthropologist, stepped in to locate the school’s graveyard to determine the number of graves and who was buried there, thus beginning the process of reuniting the boys with their families through forensic and DNA testing. The school’s poorly kept accounting suggested some thirty-one boys were buried in unmarked graves in a remote field on the school’s property. The real number was at least twice that. Kimmerle’s work did not go unnoticed; residents and local law enforcement threatened and harassed her team in their eagerness to control the truth she was uncovering—one she continues to investigate to this day. We Carry Their Bones is a detailed account of Jim Crow America and an indictment of the reform school system as we know it. It’s also a fascinating dive into the science of forensic anthropology and an important retelling of the extraordinary efforts taken to bring these lost children home to their families—an endeavor that created a political firestorm and a dramatic reckoning with racism and shame in the legacy of America.

Subjects: Secrecy.; Investigations.; Children and death.; Twentieth century.; Racism.; Race discrimination.; Prejudices.; Discrimination in education.; Slavery.; DNA; School buildings; School children.; School buildings.; History.; Abused children.; Cruelty.; Anthropology.; African American interest.; African Americans.; African American children.; Indentured servants.; Secrecy.; Racism.;

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Legends and lore of South Carolina / by Carmichael, Sherman.(CARDINAL)353396;

South Carolina Facts -- THE UPSTATE: Campbell Covered Bridge, Gowensville -- Union's Crybaby Bridge -- Greer's Haunted Bridge -- Spartanburg: Enoree River Railroad Trestle -- Oakwood Cemetery, aka Hell's Gate -- The Jesus Monument -- The Devil's Bridge -- Hangman's Tresle -- Hagood Gristmill, Pickens -- Anderson County Crybaby Bridge, Anderson -- The Hound of Goshen, Union County -- Lonely Bridge, Westminster -- Blacksburg: Rock House Road -- White Wolf Hollow and Road -- Cherokee Falls Bridge -- "The Supermoon" -- THE MIDLANDS: Newberry: The Bride of West End -- Old Whitmire Highway -- Madeline -- Columbia: The Third Eye Man -- Colonel Isaac Hayne -- Agnes of Glasgow, Camden -- Badwell Cemetery, McCormick -- Forty-acre Rock, Lancaster -- "The Jack-O'-Lantern Ghost" -- THE PEE DEE: Georgetown: The Lighthouse -- Annie of the Lighthouse -- The Disappearance of Theodosia -- Wedgefield Plantation -- The Daisy Bank Ghosts -- Little River Bigfoot, Little River -- Sampit Bigfoot, Sampit -- Hemingway -- The Humpback Man, Pleasant Hill -- Brown's Ferry Midget Man -- Brown's Ferry Boat -- Mayesville: Salem Black River Church -- The Southern Belle Ghost -- Colonel Kolb's Tomb, Society Hill -- The Church of the Holy Cross, Statesburg -- "Freeda A. Wyley" -- Manchester, Sumter County/Clarendon County --Pawleys Island: The Ghost of Alice -- The Gray man -- The Gray Man of 1822 -- Carolina Country Store, North Santee -- "Halloween" -- THE LOWCOUNTRY: Charleston: House No. 90 -- Haints, hags, and plat eyes -- The Ghost Car -- Simmons Alley -- The Malcolm -- The Headless Horseman of Fenwick Hall -- Strawberry Ferry Landing and Shipwreck -- The Mepkin Abby Shipwreck -- Blackbeard's Ghost -- Old City Jail -- The Ghost of Sue Howard Hardy -- Sonic Boom over the Lowcountry (Charleston, James Island, Daniel Island, Wadmalaw, West Ashley) -- Cape Romain Lighthouses, McClellansville -- Beaufort: The Ghost of Gauche -- The Strange Tale of Dr. Buzzard's Coffin -- Ridgeville Bigfoot -- Jacksonboro: Pon Pon Chapel of Ease -- The Jacksonboro Light -- Biggin Hill Church, Berkeley County -- Edisto island: The Ghost of Edingsville Beach -- Edisto Island Presbyterian Church -- Hilton Head Range Light -- Haig Point Range Light, Daufuskie Island -- Childsbury, Summerville -- Hagood's Mill Cemetery, Barnwell -- Medway Plantation, Goose Creek -- Purrysburg -- "Bottle Trees".This collection of eighty strange and unusual South Carolina legends is rooted in the state's deep history. Some originated centuries ago, such as the Agnes of Glasgow story in Camden and that of the ghostly dwarf jester Gauche, said to haunt a Beaufort mansion. Certain places hold secrets from different eras, including White Wolf Road in Blacksburg and the state's numerous historic cemeteries like the one at Salem Black River Church in Mayesville. These pages also contain simple explanations for local lore, like the Gullah tradition behind blue bottle trees that still decorate Carolina gardens today. These and many more crowd-pleasing yarns can be found in this volume from the desk of master storyteller, author and researcher Sherman Carmichael. --From publisher description.

Subjects: Anecdotes.; Biographies.; Folklore; Legends;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Coats History

"The Story of Coats" no date, no source, includes events through 1962; "Facts About Coats, North Carolina," same text as "Story of Coats" by includes events through 1984, no source; map of Coats, courtesy of Coats Motor Co., undated; "Railroad & Depot," apparently published in the Daily Record, Nov. 16, 1988, by M.O. Phillips, 2 p.; copy of "Railroad & Depot" which states it was compiled by Elaine Keene for Coats Extension Homemakers Club to explain the quilt square in 1989 Harnett Co. historical quilt; copy of newspaper article "Coats Hotel: A Mirror of the Past," by Charles Malone, prob. from Harnett County News, undated by after 1970; "Historical Sketch of Coats," by Mrs. Charles Turlington, undated, no source; newspaper article, "Speakers Praise Dorman At Dedication Ceremony," by Lois Weaver, Dunn Dispatch, May 2, 1977, about the dedication of the new Coats City Hall; newspaper page "Coats Farmers Day is a Lot of Fun for Young and Old," Dunn Dispatch, Oct. 11, 1977, primarily photos by Tom Weaver; newspaper photo of Coats annual Farmers' Day, Dunn Dispatch, Oct. 11, 1977; copy of the original plan of the town of Coats as it appears in Deed Book 169, p. 584, Aug. 21, 1946; programs for the dedication and open house of the Town of Coats Municipal Building, May 1, 1977; program for the dedication of the historical marker honoring Alton Stewart, aviation pioneer, Nov. 5, 2005; "Word pictures of early town of Coats" by Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Grimes, 1 p. typed, undated; newspaper article, "Coats Carries On Tradition," Daily Record, Oct. 5, 1994 about Farmers' Day; brief biographies and color portraits of the Founding Fathers from a 1989 Bicentennial calendar; map of Coats, undated but prob. early 1960s; typed article about Town of Coats Charter, undated, no source; newspaper article, "Old Station Continues to Serve Coats," by M.O. Phillips, Dunn Daily Record, Nov. 16, 1988 about old Durham & Southern Railroad Station in Coats, includes photos; newspaper page "Scenes from Farmer's Day," Daily Record, April 22, 1991, photos by Karen Stanley; newspaper article "Twin Sons of Coats Family Left Mark on Local History," by C. Stanton Coats, Benson Review, Dec. 2, 1976, about William Benjamin and James Thomas Coats. Folder 2: copy of newspaper article, "Sale of Coats Firm Big Success Story," Daily Record, about the sale of Applied Computer Technologies to Carolina Power and Light, undated but prob. 1990s; newspaper photo "Funderburk Donates Flag to Coats," Daily Record, Oct. 24, 1995, about flag donation to Coats Museum; newspaper article "Coats Man Finds Shoe Pegs Dated at 150 Years Old," Daily Record, July 25, 1995 about Hugh Williams; newspaper article, "ACT Buying Boyt Building for Expansion," Daily Record, Oct. 21, 1997 about Applied Computer Technologies; newspaper article, "Coats Voters Approve Bond for First Recreational Park," Raleigh News & Observer, Oct. 5, 1977; newspaper article, "Coats Voters Back Park Bonds 276-29," Dunn Dispatch, Oct. 5, 1977; newspaper article, "Action on Coats' Sewage Plant Awaits Studies," Raleigh News & Observer, Oct. 21, 1977; newspaper article, "$284,026 Federal Grant is Approved for Coats," Daily Record, Aug. 19, 1987; newspaper article, "They've Done It - Coats Annexes Proposed Areas," Daily Record, May 14, 1993; brochure "Historic Architecture of Harnett County" about a presentation on Sept. 26, 2004 by the NC Preservation Office about the architectural survey of historic Harnett County properties; signatures of visitors to the History of Coats display, undated, 5 p.; newspaper article, "Coats Extends Patriotic Welcome" about the efforts of Johnnie V. Williams to erect a flag in the town of Coats, undated, no source; newspaper photo and caption "Hedgepeth Gets Cost Share Check" Daily Record, Jan. 31, 1990 picturing Jeff Turlington and Ellen Hedgepeth; newspaper article "Coats-Grove Fire and Rescue to Become One Service Group," by Lisa Farmer, Daily Record, undated but prob. 1990. Folder 3: Newspaper articles: "Coats News: New Books Arrive at Coats Library," Harnett County News, Jan. 30, 1975; "Coats Brothers Had Impact On Story of Two Counties," Dunn Dispatch, Dec. 3, 1976; "Engineers Discuss Plan for Recreation Complex," Dunn Dispatch, July 15, 1977; "Coats Employees Sweat in New Town Hall," Raleigh News & Observer, July 15, 1977; Coats Voters OK Park Bond Issue, Harnett County News, Oct. 13, 1977; "Survey Results," Harnett County News, Jan. 26, 1978; "Pub. School Funds Totaled $8 Million," Harnett County News, Jan. 26, 1978; "Water user Agreements Sought for Metro Dist.," Harnett County News, Feb. 16, 1978; "Water System Vote OK'd" no source, undated; "Army Puts Coats Year Ahead on Park," Dunn Reporter, April 27, 1979; "Coats Mayor Facing Insurance Charges," Dunn Daily Record, July 12, 1980; "New Harnett County Airport Heralded by Officials," HCN, Nov. 25, 1981; "Justice Department rules against county-splitting ban in redistricting," Raleigh News & Observer, Dec. 2, 1981; "Coats Adopts New Budget As Citizens Pack Hearing," Dunn Daily Record, June 24, 1983; "Coats Purchases Two New Vehicles," Dunn Daily Record, June 5, 1985; "Coats Citizens Look Ahead," Dunn Daily Record, April 21, 1987; "Coats Garment Workers Return to Their Jobs: THM Manufacturing, Union Reach Agreement," Dunn Daily Record, May 31, 1989; "N.C. 27 Change Set Monday," Dunn Daily Record, July 14, 1989; "Coats Council Votes Against Rest Home for Hunter's Run," Dunn Daily Record, May 18, 1989; "Coats Boards Split Votes on Rest Home," Dunn Daily Record, May 12, 1989; entire page with photos of "Scenes from Coats' Farmers' Day Parade," Daily Record, Oct. 10, 1989; "Coats Gives Honors at Athletic Banquet," Daily Record, May 22, 1980; photo and caption, "Coats 50th Reunion," about reunion of 1940 Coats High School graduating class, Daily Record, Aug. 2, 1990; photo with caption, "Presents Check" with Christine Parrish and James Grimes presenting check for Coats Museum construction, Daily Record, April 11, 1991; photo and caption "Gov. Martin Honors Top Harnett Volunteers," Daily Record, Sep. 8, 1992; "Cabin fever strikes Coats married couple," HCN, May 26, 1993 about Hilda and Gail Pope restoring the Jesse Wiggins cabin; "Rural Coats Upholstery Business Adds Class to 'Executive Home' " Daily Record, Jan. 12, 1994 about Stacy Williams Upholstery; "Coats Museum Opens," Erwin Times, Oct. 18, 1995; "Coats Board Bids Farewell to Smith," Daily Record, 1997; "Coats Company That Began in Bedroom Sold for $23 Million," Daily Record, undated but after 2001; "Coats Annexes 100 Acres for Development," Daily Record, undated; "Final Contracts Are Signed: Buies Creek-Coats Project is Underway," Daily Record, undated; "Coats People Thanked for Community Center," no source, undated. Reprint of article from the Harnett County Historical Quilt, "The Ole Stewart's Corn Mill," 1989; letter to Coats Water customers, Dec. 12, 1974 and attached explanations about water bond; retyped copy of an article from a Dunn newspaper, 1913, "Coats as Seen in the Industrial Report of the Local Newspaper from Dunn;" 6 pages of drawings and plans for a proposed public library for the town of Coats.

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