Wednesday, July 22, 2009

News and notes...

Time for our look around the old North State.

There is an article on the passing of CSS Neuse II’s founder Ted Sampley on encToday. Check it out here.

Also in encToday is an article about work on the museum to house the original CSS Neuse. Read about it here.

Several newspapers have reported on the work of three North Carolina Central Students and their work with the papers of Jefferson Davis at the Museum of the Confederacy. Check out one of those articles here.

There is a small piece on New Bern and “What-if” which you can find here.

In the Stokes News you can find an article about the restoration of their courthouse and the planned addition of the North Carolina Civil War Trails marker. You can read about it here.

A very interesting article on the preservation of Fort Fisher through the past 100 years: read about it here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Michael,
Thanks for posting the many articles; of particular interest were the "what ifs regarding New Bern," and of course the "Jefferson Davis Project."
M. Parker