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Cooking Through the Counties : Honey Wheat Bread from Dare County, NC
Rare Book Curator, Carolyn Shankle, is cooking her way through SCUA’s vast North Carolina Cookbook Collection! She will have a new recipe each quarterly newsletter. For this installment of Cooking Through the Counties, we’re passing through Dare County, North Carolina, to make Shirley B.’s recipe, Honey-Wheat Bread. This recipe comes to us from the God Willing […]
Preserving the Tuttle Collection
-Audrey Sage Lelia Judson Tuttle was born in 1878 in Caldwell County, North Carolina, where she grew up on the family farm. She graduated from the State Normal and Industrial College (now UNCG) in 1900, and did postgraduate work in English at the State Normal before receiving her Master of Arts degree in English from […]
Cooking Through The Counties : Making Speedy Poppy Seed Bread
Welcome to Cooking Through the Counties, where we feature a recipe selected from one cookbook from a specific county in North Carolina. The cookbook featured here can be found in the North Carolina Cookbook Collection, part of Rare Books. This column highlights Beaufort County, and specifically a cookbook created by the Terra Ceia School in […]
Pauline G. Palmer Scrapbook
by Beth Ann Koelsch Scrapbooks can often be very fragile, especially if the pages themselves are brittle. Many scrapbooks are filled with uncaptioned photographs and other materials such as programs, postcards, clippings, greeting cards, and ticket stubs. The lack of contextual information makes it challenging to understand the “story” of the creator, especially if we […]
Fall 2023 SCUA Acquisitions
Manuscripts World War II Era Homefront Propaganda Poster Created and first distributed in 1943, this poster conveyed the attitude of winning the war effort through cooperation and collaboration. Rare Books The Novel That Created the Genre: The Castle of Otranto, A Gothic Story Generally considered to be the first gothic novel at its initial publication […]
SCUA News: Summer 2023
Preservation Specialist Audrey Sage Honored by the Staff Senate Preservation Specialist Audrey Sage was honored by the Staff Senate for her many contributions to Service Committee, including her work with the Angel tree, the UNCG garden plot, the Spartan Open Pantry food drive, the Teacher Supply Warehouse drive, the Veterans Day card signing event, and […]
Mountain Cooking by John Parris
by Audrey Sage John Parris was born in Sylva, North Carolina and began writing for the local weekly paper, The Jackson County Journal, at the age of thirteen. He later went on to write as a feature writer in New York, then later in London during World War II for the United Press. He continued […]
The White Maiden Male by Jeffrey Morin
by Audrey Sage sailorBOYpress, 2012, Copy 6 from an edition of 50. 11 x 9″; 28 pages. Letterpress printed with Plantin type. Printed on Barcham Green and other handmade papers. Sewn binding with matching paper covers. In 11.75 x 9″ lidded aluminum box with embossed titles. Signed and dated by artist. Jeff Morin, Colophon: “The White […]
Silver Pitchers by Louisa May Alcott
by Audrey Sage Special Collections and University Archives received a wonderful gift from Judith Fetterley, a first edition copy of Silver Pitchers: and Independence, a Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott published by Roberts Brothers in Boston, 1876. Conservator Audrey Sage was able to put a plan into action to provide some repair and restoration […]
New Acquisitions – Winter 2023
Rare Books Invisible Man / Ralph Ellison Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison’s first novel, is one of the post-Harlem Renaissance African-American novels that have entered “the Western Canon” as acknowledged classics. Special Collections’ copy is the first edition, complete with dustjacket. A Date with a Dish / Freda DeKnight Written by Freda DeKnight, Ebony‘s food editor, […]
