Explore North Carolina People, Places at Free Seminar

5/25/2005

Explore unique North Carolina places and see history come alive as North Regional Library hosts a program featuring historian and writer David Cecelski. The seminar, titled, "The Real Story of North Carolina is not just the history, it's the people," will be held Tuesday, June 7, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

David Cecelski, Ph.D., a historian, writer and native of Craven County, will discuss all the unique places and people he has met while interviewing North Carolinians from all walks of life. As part of the Southern Oral History Project, Cecelski produces the monthly interview series "Listening to History: A North Carolina Mosaic" for the Raleigh News & Observer. He is the author of Along Freedom Road: Hyde County and the Fate of Black Schools in the South, A Historians Coast: Adventures Into the Tidewater Past and Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in the Maritime South.

The seminar is free, but preregistration is required. Contact Adult Services at North Regional Library at 870-4000.

The seminar will start a three-part travel series for North Regional Library. The other two segments, with dates to be announced, will be a photography and a scrapbooking workshop.

North Regional Library is located at 200 Horizon Drive, off Six Forks and Sawmill roads, near the Celebration at Six Forks shopping center in North Raleigh.

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