Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; The Setting: Nags Head Woods; The Erb and Maggie Tillett Homestead; Kith and Kin; Hog Killing; Jimmy and the Bull; Working in the Woods; Branding the Cattle; The Twilight Haul; Counting the Waves; Peddling Crabs; Getting There; To Grandmother's House; The Airplane and the Preacher; In Sickness and In Health; Home Remedies; Having Fun; The Snipe Hunt; The Coast Guard Swing; Leaving the Woods; Appendix; Afterword; Back Cover |
Summary |
In the 1980s, The Nature Conservancy began work on the fast-growing Outer Banks by protecting Nags Head Woods. One of the last intact maritime forests on the East Coast, the Woods was in danger of becoming a housing development. In the late nineteenth century Nags Head Woods was home to about forty families and to this day remnants of their time there can be seen during a walk in the preserve. Based on oral histories, "Everyone Helped His Neighbor" documents the social and cultural history of a community that worked the land and waters of this unique place. Originally published in 1987, this reissue edition contains a foreword by David S. Cecelski and an afterword by the authors |
Notes |
"Reissue edition with a new foreword and afterword published in 2018." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2018) |
Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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SUBJECT |
Nags Head (N.C.) -- History
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Nags Head Woods (N.C.) -- History
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Outer Banks (N.C.) -- History
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Subject |
North Carolina -- Nags Head
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North Carolina -- Nags Head Woods
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North Carolina -- Outer Banks
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Glass, Amy, author
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ISBN |
9781469650029 |
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1469650029 |
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