Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…for providing photograph of her. SOURCES: 1. Obituary: Pharr, Ruby Deaton Harbison. News Herald, Morganton, North Carolina. 9 March 2015. https://www.morganton.com/obituaries/pharr-ruby-deaton-harbison/article_4673f789-2a54-52c7-bd8c-b28605eaac85.html accessed on 2 June 2020. 2. Winters, Kelly. 1988….

Further Afield: Skunk Alert at Lake Townsend

…Anne Melyn. 2011. Down Along the Haw: The History of a North Carolina River. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc. “Lake Townsend” City of Greensboro. https://www.greensboro-nc.gov/departments/parks-recreation/the-lakes/lake-townsend accessed 27 February 2022….

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…al. 1976. Agricultural and forest primary productivity in North Carolina, 1972-1973. Raleigh: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. SOURCES: Obituary. Douglas Dwight Sharp. Dignity Memorial. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/east-lansing-mi/douglas-sharp-7389073 accessed on 26 July 2022….

Land Acknowledgement

…Historical Museum, Temporary Exhibit – Yésah: Journeys of the Occaneechi, https://www.orangehistorync.org/temporary-exhibit “Yésah is a Tutelo-Saponi word which means “the people.” The Yésah formed numerous bands, yet they were one people,…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…Katharine S. 1996. Wicker, Rassie Everton. Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. Copyright ©1979-1996 by the University of North Carolina Press. https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/wicker-rassie-everton accessed on…

Orchids: Masters of Deception

…F. Whigham, and John P. O’Neill. 2012. Limitations on orchid recruitment: not a simple picture. Molecular Ecology 21: 1511-1523. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05468.x https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_mccormick001.pdf Top photo: Aplectrum hyemale by Alan M. Cressler…