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Redford's off-duty hours and vacations turned into a blur of musty documents and marathon interviews of old people with tattered memories. The riddle of her origins, she discovered, lay in the North Carolina coastal plain around Edenton, Creswell and Columbia. Her research filled file drawers, boxes and shelves all over her house, and has finally been collected into a 350-page manuscript. What started as a digest of her own genealogy ended up being nothing less than a family tree of all the descendants of the slaves -- bearing 21 different surnames -- who once worked on one of North...
...idea that the family line led to the plantation. She was able to make the connection when she discovered a bill of sale in the Chowan County courthouse showing that her earliest known antecedent, Elsy Littlejohn, born in 1796, and eight children were sold by the Littlejohn plantation in Edenton to Josiah Collins, owner of Somerset. In the North Carolina state archives, she found a private collection of some 2,000 pages of letters, slave inventories, bills and memorandums from the Somerset plantation. How did the breakthroughs feel? Says Redford: "With the past opening up, you feel more complete...
...dramatic finale an identical GCA landing of a Marine night fighter in Korea. This was not a coincidence, for the play had been written by Captain Hill, who was an actor (Walk East on Beacon) in civilian life. Hill also got leave from his Marine base at Edenton. N.C., to play the part of a newspaper correspondent (the only non-Marine role in the 20-man cast) in his own real-life drama, which happened last fall...
...eight months, 15 Corcoran staff members had scoured the U.S., made expeditions to Canada, Mexico and Europe to round up paintings, prints and Americana. In Paris they uncovered a 1775 mezzotint of A Society of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton, N.C. emptying their tea caddies in protest against George III's unwelcome taxes. From Canada's National Gallery came Benjamin West's enormous, detailed...
...Logical Mind. In Edenton, N.C., town officials found sidewalks overcrowded with ex-autoists. To cope with the new confusion they divided the walks into lanes: one for shoppers, one for stationary loungers...