January 2023 Archives

Jan 30, 2023
  • Patrick Cash

Schlobin Selections #1: A House-Boat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades by John Kendrick Bangs

Over the next several weeks, we will be highlighting a select number of titles and authors from the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Established in...

Jan 14, 2023
  • Fred Harrison

First Brick School for African Americans in North Carolina

Originally referred to as the “ Red Schoolhouse”, New Bern’s first public school for African Americans was established in the early 1870s.  When fire destroyed the initial wood-framed building in...