Into the Sound Country : A Carolinian's Coastal Plain

by Simpson, Bland; Simpson, Ann Cary; Simpson, Ann Cary

• ISBN13: 9780807823811
• ISBN10: 0807823813
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery - of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state's eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson. Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth City, explores scuppernong vineyards from Hertford to Southport, tramps through Pasquotank swamps and Croatan pine savannas, and visits Roanoke River oyster bars and Core Banks fishing shanties. Ann Simpson's original photographs capture both the broad vistas of the sounds and rivers and the quieter corners of mossy creeks and country churchyards. A memorable journey into eastern Carolina's richly varied natural world, Into the Sound Country is for anyone who would spend a while in one of America's most intriguing and underexplored areas.

Table of Contents

The Sound Country	1	(3)
Betsy: The Northeast	4	(28)
Scuppernong: Around the Albemarle	32	(16)
Hulls	48	(20)
Sunny Side: The Roanoke Valley	68	(26)
Ghost Pocosins: Between Albemarle and Pamlico	94	(14)
Croatan: Valley of the Neuse	108	(17)
Tar	125	(17)
The Big Empty: Lower Carolina	142	(19)
Maco: Southeasternmost	161	(28)
Rough Side	189	(18)
Coratank: Northeasternmost	207	(16)
Haystacks: Heart of the Coast	223	(26)
Selected Sound Country Sources	249	(8)
Acknowledgments	257	(2)
Illustration Credits	259	(2)
Maps	261	(2)
Index	263