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Cooking Through the Counties: Brown Sugar Pecan Pie from Rutherford County
When I examined the cookbook, The Whole Town’s Cooking, compiled by the Rutherfordton Woman’s Club, I was intrigued to find a full page of recipes for pecan pie. I’ll be the first to tell you that pecan pie isn’t one of my favorites. I often find it too sweet – it makes my teeth sing […]
NEW ACQUISITIONS – WINTER 2026
Manuscripts The Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections & University Archives is proud to announce that it will be the repository for the archive of the Eastern Music Festival (EMF). EMF, established in 1962 in Greensboro, North Carolina, is nationally acclaimed not only as a celebration of classical music, but also for its music education camp. The festival attracted world-class artists, many of whom […]
The Restoration of Letters from New York
by Audrey Sage The Special Collections contains a copy of Letters from New York by L. Maria Child, which was published in 1845 by C. S. Frances & Co. in New York. Other works by L. Maria Child include Philothea: A Grecian Romance, History of Women, The Mother’s Book, and Flowers for Children. Prominent author […]