Voices of America: The Crystal Coast
Arcadia Publishing – Charleston
ISBN – 0-7385-0656-7
Willie Parker Peace History Book Award
Nominated for Mayflower Award
This volume features oral histories of North Carolina coastal citizens who claim their heritage from the early families of the Outer Banks and towns on the sounds. The stories are interwoven into an interesting texture of voices. Chapters include stories about Nannie Virginia Branch Haley, Alex Haley’s widow, Nettie Willis Murrill, an icon of Morehead City, and Mary Snead Dixon, the school teacher who arrived on Portsmouth Island in 1916. Archival and family photos are featured along with excellent black and white photographs by Frances Eubanks.