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Author: David A. Stallman
Publisher: David Stallman
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0970823924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKECHOES of Topsail is a history of Topsail Island, NC from its formation to the year 2004. Extensively researched, the facts, folklore and experiences of its people tell the island's story and bring the island's heartbeat to the reader.
Author: David Stallman
Publisher: Netsource Dist Services
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781887750332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis account of stories and personal experiences should delight the reader with a picture of Topsail Island's origins, disasters, and developments that tested many souls and gave many of us personal joy.
Author: David A. Stallman
Publisher: David Stallman
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0970823924
DOWNLOAD EBOOKECHOES of Topsail is a history of Topsail Island, NC from its formation to the year 2004. Extensively researched, the facts, folklore and experiences of its people tell the island's story and bring the island's heartbeat to the reader.
Author: BJ. Cothran
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780738566016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime often stands still along the picturesque shores that dot one of North Carolina's favorite barrier islands. Islanders have always loved Topsail's quiet, small-town charm and seclusion.
Author: BJ. Cothran
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780738566016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime often stands still along the picturesque shores that dot one of North Carolina's favorite barrier islands. Islanders have always loved Topsail's quiet, small-town charm and seclusion.
Author: David A. Stallman
Publisher: David Stallman
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0970823916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph T. Kelley
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0813724600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Sea level is rising, and yet Americans continue to develop beaches with little regard. In this volume, a group of coastal geologists discusses the startling saga of ten U.S. East and Gulf Coast shoreline communities (plus Puerto Rico and some western Europe strands) and the problems created by their inevitable interaction with natural processes in this highly dynamic geologic environment. The authors discuss the geologic context of the hazards of each site as the history of societal responses and their environmental impacts. Response to the natural coastal processes that threaten lives and buildings is carried out in a context of local, state and national politics with fixed short-term engineering solutions (beach replenishment, seawalls) generally favored over longer-term approaches (moving back, prohibition of seawalls). This essential GSA Special Paper foreshadows the impending rise of sea level and the myriad of shoreline responses and political controversies it will provoke."--Publisher's description.
Author: Charles Seabrook
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2013-05-01
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0820345334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast--its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the historic and ongoing threats to its ecological survival. Focusing on areas from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Canaveral, Florida, Charles Seabrook examines the ecological importance of the salt marsh, calling it "a biological factory without equal." Twice-daily tides carry in a supply of nutrients that nourish vast meadows of spartina ( Spartina alterniflora )--a crucial habitat for creatures ranging from tiny marine invertebrates to wading birds. The meadows provide vital nurseries for 80 percent of the seafood species, including oysters, crabs, shrimp, and a variety of finfish, and they are invaluable for storm protection, erosion prevention, and pollution filtration. Seabrook is also concerned with the plight of the people who make their living from the coast's bounty and who carry on its unique culture. Among them are Charlie Phillips, a fishmonger whose livelihood is threatened by development in McIntosh County, Georgia, and Vera Manigault of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, a basket maker of Gullah-Geechee descent, who says that the sweetgrass needed to make her culturally significant wares is becoming scarcer. For all of the biodiversity and cultural history of the salt marshes, many still view them as vast wastelands to be drained, diked, or "improved" for development into highways and subdivisions. If people can better understand and appreciate these ecosystems, Seabrook contends, they are more likely to join the growing chorus of scientists, conservationists, fishermen, and coastal visitors and residents calling for protection of these truly amazing places.
Author: Julian M. Pleasants
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2018-10-03
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0813063841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the outset of World War II, North Carolina was one of the poorest states in the Union. More than half of the land was rural. Over one-third of the farms had no electricity; only one in eight had a telephone. Illiteracy and a lack of education resulted in the highest rate of draft rejections of any state. The citizens desperately wanted higher living standards, and the war would soon awaken the Rip Van Winkle state to its fullest potential. Home Front traces the evolution of the people, customs, traditions, and attitudes, arguing that World War II was the most significant event in the history of modern North Carolina. Using oral history interviews, newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, historian Julian Pleasants explores the triumphs, hardships, and emotions of North Carolinians during this critical period. The Training and Selective Service Act of 1940 created over fifty new military bases in the state to train two million troops. Citizens witnessed German submarines sinking merchant vessels off the coast, struggled to understand and cope with rationing regulations, and used 10,000 German POWs as farm and factory laborers. The massive influx of newcomers reinvigorated markets--the timber, mineral, textile, tobacco, and shipbuilding industries boomed, and farmers and other manufacturing firms achieved economic success. Although racial and gender discrimination remained, World War II provided social and economic opportunities for black North Carolinians and for women to fill jobs once limited to men, helping to pave the way for the civil and women's rights movements that followed. The conclusion of World War II found North Carolina drastically different. Families had lost sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters. Despite all the sacrifices and dislocations, the once provincial state looked forward to a modern, diversified, and highly industrialized future.
Author: Zach Hanner
Publisher: By the Sea Publications
Published: 2007-06
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780762744411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide offers tourists and newcomers rich culture, incredible golf, history, magnificent natural beauty, and unspoiled beaches. Explore Wilmington, Wrightsville Beach, Carolina and Kure Beaches, the South Brunswick islands, Topsail Island, and more. This book is this fast-growing area’s only comprehensive travel and newcomer guidebook.
