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Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson. Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards. Her selection of archival illustrations ranges from the informative to the humorous, from a turpentine scraper at work in the 1850s to a pair of little girls playing with a horseshoe crab on a Beaufort porch at the turn of the century. A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas. |This is the story of the farmworkers--Italian immigrants, African American laborers, and imported workers from the Caribbean--who came to work in the fields of New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida in the decades after 1870. In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Coast shows how growers enlisted the aid of the state in an unprecedented effort to keep their fields well stocked with labor.

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[Observations and anecdotes] form an amiable pastiche with Simpson 's own family history and that of eastern North Carolina. Preservation Magazine [A] memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying. Our State YObservations and anecdotes form an amiable pastiche with Simpsons own family history and that of eastern North Carolina. Preservation Magazine YA memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying. Our State Simpson brings the natural world so close that the reader can almost smell the rivers. Virginia Explorer Simpson will introduce you to a North Carolina you've never experienced. Coastwatch [A] memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying. Our State An insightful and rich glance at an under-appreciated and under-explored region. Coaster

[Observations and anecdotes] form an amiable pastiche with Simpson 's own family history and that of eastern North Carolina.<p> Preservation Magazine

[Observations and anecdotes] form an amiable pastiche with Simpson 's own family history and that of eastern North Carolina. Preservation Magazine [A] memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying. Our State Observations and anecdotes form an amiable pastiche with Simpsons own family history and that of eastern North Carolina. Preservation Magazine A memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying. Our State [A] memorable journey into Eastern North Carolina's varied natural world, a reading of this volume should prove gratifying. Our State Simpson brings the natural world so close that the reader can almost smell the rivers. Virginia Explorer An insightful and rich glance at an under-appreciated and under-explored region. Coaster Simpson will introduce you to a North Carolina you've never experienced. Coastwatch

[Observations and anecdotes] form an amiable pastiche with Simpsona[s own family history and that of eastern North Carolina.<p> Preservation Magazine

[Observations and anecdotes] form an amiable pastiche with Simpson 's own family history and that of eastern North Carolina. Preservation Magazine

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Bland Simpson is author of Into the Sound Country, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey, The Great Dismal, and Heart of the Country. A member of the Tony Award-winning Red Clay Ramblers, Simpson has collaborated on such musicals as King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running, Kudzu, and Broadway and international hit Fool Moon. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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