About Me — Claudia Stack

In December, 2021 the Southern Pines Land and Housing Trust won a two year battle to buy back the historic West Southern Pines school property. The property was originally the site of a Rosenwald school constructed on four acres donated by the African American community. The campus was later expanded…

Maggie closed the door of her room gratefully at the end of that long day on which Mr. Brown had returned home. She collapsed on her pallet without bothering to remove her black dress and starched white apron. I’ll hang them up in a moment, she thought. She closed her…

He was from a small town, or he was from a city. They had met only a few months before, or they had been married for years. There were children, or there were no children. They were together constantly, or he had just returned from deployment. He was successful, or…

Dr. Johnny Batts, Jr. is a retired physicist who was born in 1942 in Pender County’s historic Edgecomb community (click here for more information about Edgecomb from the Pender County African American Heritage Trail). Dr. Batts attended first through sixth grade at the Sloop Point Rosenwald School. He doesn’t know…

“Maggie, come upstairs! I need you to put the ribbons in my hair!” Sarah was in a state, with her father returning after two months in Europe. Mr. Brown’s ship had docked downtown, and Mack had been dispatched to fetch him in the yellow Pierce-Arrow town car. That morning, Maggie…

My family has traveled many times to western North Carolina, and we usually stay in Blowing Rock near Boone, NC. We wanted to do something a little different, however, for my husband’s birthday weekend. …

Author Edward Harold Mott (1845–1920) was born in Pennsylvania. In 1878, he became a newspaper correspondant for several NY newspapers. As his career unfolded he also wrote books on PA history, as well as biographies and short stores. Although he lived for much of his adult life in Goshen, NY…

My friend Linda, who is an excellent horse trainer, told me not to do it. My husband threatened to install parental controls on my phone. My son Jack, who helps take care of our animals, shook his head. Why had I pressed the “Buy Now” button on a painfully thin…