Henrietta “Henny” Laing Chambers

…moved to Corvallis. Needless to say, a cross- country automobile trip with an infant and pulling a U-Haul trailer had both good and bad moments. The next-to-last day of the…

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…

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,…

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….

Further Afield: Strolling Around Purgatory

…SOURCES: 1. Roznick, Betsy. 2021. Spend some time in Purgatory: Exploring the Zoo’s Purgatory Mountain. https://www.nczoo.org/blog/spend-some-time-purgatory-exploring-zoos-purgatory-mountain accessed on 19 Nov 2023. 2. Weakley, A.S., and Southeastern Flora Team. 2024. Flora…

Ken E. Rogers

…Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 95(5): 423-424. Rogers, Ken E. and J.K. Underwood (1968) Some noteworthy Tennessee plants. Castanea 33(3): 260-261. SOURCES: 1. http://www.usm.edu/herbarium/about_us.htm accessed on 19 May 2021. 2. Rogers,…

Helen Shedd Sherwin

…and Leafspot on Soybeans in Maryland. Phytopathology 42(6): 342. SOURCES: 1. “Helen S. Yu, Garden Club President” Obituary, The Washington Post, 24 November 1990. Accessed on 23 June 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1990/11/24/author-roald-dahl-dies/0a2b6f8b-c4f0-4b42-8fd1-8493bcbd94f1/…

Mary Gwendolyn Burton Caldwell

…University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 4. The Alumni Review, February 1947. 35(5): 180. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 5. Find A Grave Memorial #27667741. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=27667741 Information…

Wendell P. Smith

…Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Marriage Index, 1901-1955 and 1966-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Department…