2024 NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF HISTORIANS AWARD WINNERS
Historian of the Year
Steve Quillin
President of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
President’s Award
The Depot Museum
Hudson, North Carolina
History Teacher of the Year
Theresa Pierce
Author and Dramatist
Lighthouse Award
Waldensian Heritage Museum
Town of Valdese
Philip Gerard
Inspiring Writer and Musician
Hart Square Village
Dr. Bob Hart and the Hart Family
Vale, North Carolina
Lane Harrison Dyer
Author and Journalist
Historical Sketches of Wilkes County and other works
Granite Falls Middle School
The Wall Tells All
Children’s Historic Fiction
Suzanne Mellow Irwin
The Tale of Bella
Children’s History Book
Brenda Kay Ledford
Christmas in Matheson Cove
Family History
Fred E. Epeley
Ottie’s People
Granite Falls Middle School
“The Wall Tells All”
The School’s History on Permanent Display
Historical Fiction
Joy Callaway
What the Mountains Remember
Lane Harrison Dyer
The Tory Oak: Colonel Benjamin Cleveland
and the American Revolution
Lane Harrison Dyer
The Fort Hamby Gang:
North Carolina’s Most Infamous Outlaw Band
Donna Everhart
Two Novels:
The Saints of Swallow Hill
When the Jessamine Grows
David Wright Falade
Black Cloud Rising
Sarah Thomas
These Tangled Threads: A Novel of Biltmore
Multimedia
Sheila Kay Adams
CD: Legacy Volume III
Douglas Chambers
Riverside Baptist Church: A Century
of Faithfulness
Sue Curtis
25th Annual Salisbury Confederate Prison Symposium
Theresa Pierce
Katherine Wright:
Sister to the Wright Brothers
(YouTube Video)
Linda Willard
Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley;
Who Killed Martha Pinnix? ; Fires!;
Jeremiah Hubbard; Three Wise Men;
Julia Ida Ragsdale Hill
Steve Quillin and Robert Moore
Program Book for the
Grandfather Mountain Highland Games and
Gathering of Clans (68th Anniversary Edition)
Museum
Denton Farm Park
AKA Radio Museum
The Depot Museum
in Hudson, North Carolina
The Gamewell Museum
Historic Gold Hill
Horne Creek Living Historical Site
in Pinnacle, North Carolina
The Rowan County Museum, Including The China Grove Roller Mill Museum
Evin Burleson, Executive Director
Waldensian Heritage Museum
Gretchen Costner, Executive Director
Organization
Historic Gold Hill and Mines Foundation
History Book
Dr. William C Allsbrook, Jr.
Making Music: The Banjo
In a Southern Appalachian Country
Alen Baker & Gretchen Griffith
Fly Fishers of the Caldwell County Area
Richard Eller and Claudia Ward
Tell Us, Marcellus . . .
The Thonrtons of Harper House
David Fleming
Who’s Your Founding Father? :
One Man’s Epic Quest to Find the One,
True Declaration of Independence
Philip Gerard
Words and Music: An Album of a Life in Story and Song
Vivian Hopkins
Real Life Tragedy Becomes
Legend and Ghost Story
The Haunting of Morgan Manor
and Other Gold Hill Ghost Stories
The Gold Hill Ghost and Other Legends
The Pictorial History of Gold Hill, NC,
and the Gold Hill Mining District
Michael Hardy
Hidden History of the Toe River Valley
Eileen Heyes
Dare Coulter (Illustrator)
Bountiful Red Acres:
Two Families, Two Farms, and a Year on the Land
Lawrence Koster
The Railroads of Moore County
Margaret M. Langley
The Haunted Broughton Series:
- Tales from the Graveyard Shift
- More Tales from the Graveyard Shift
- Haunted Broughton: History and Horror
Leila McMichael
Haunted Historic Happy Valley
Janet Morrison
Harrisburg, Did you Know?
Cabarrus History, Books 1 & 2
Ashley Oliphant & Beth Yarborough
Jean Laffite Revealed: Unraveling One of
America’s Longest-Running Mysteries
Bob Plott and Jacob Morgan Plott
Smoky Mountain Railways
Sonya Y. Ramsey
Bertha Maxwell-Roddey:
A Modern-Day Race Woman
And the Power of Black Leadership
John E. Ross
Through the Mountains:
The French Broad River and Time
Joseph Scotchie
The Asheville Connection:
The Making of a Conservative
Sherrie Hartsoe Sigmon
Weaving the Heart Threads of a Mill Village:
Rhodhiss, North Carolina
Neal Brian Westveer
The Mount Mitchel Railroad
The Old Fort Grade
- L. Willis
Hillbilly Odyssey: Resilience in a
Small Mountain Mill Town
Phoebe Zerwick
Beyond Innocence:
The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
Journalism
Bill Ballew
Batter Up! McCormick Field
Celebrates Its 100th Anniversary
Edison Curtis
The Prison Exchange, Vol. No.
Lane Harrison Dyer (Editor)
Historical Sketches of Wilkes County
by John Crouch
Unabridged Revised Edition
Lane Harrison Dyer
Reflections from Wilkes County, Volume 2:
Weekly Columns from The Wilkes Record
Edenton Historical Commission
Friends Newsletter
John Elliston
“Happy Campers”
Feature Article in WNC Magazine
Vivian Hopkins (Editor)
Gold Hill Miner Newsletter
Paula T. Levi
“Who Is That Lady?”
Article in the Journal of the Burke County
Genealogical Society Journal
Theresa Pierce
“If Walls Could Talk”
Article in Rowan Senior Savvy about
The China Grove Roller Mill Museum
Carol Timblin
Articles published in Carolina Mountain Life:
“William VonCannon’s Home Stood
Below the Hanging Rock” & “The Historic James Wilborn Whitehead Home”