2023 NCSH Award Recipients

BOOKS

Alleghany Writers’ Critique Group: Kay Bodeen, Pratt Davis, Eldon Joines, Elaine Moretz, and Joanie Walker, and Suzanne Irwin: Earthquake on the Parkway

 

Patricia Cooper Baker: The Heart of Blackbeard

 

Jay Barnes: Fifteen Hurricanes that Changed the Carolinas: Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next

 

Lane Harrison Dyer: Reflections from Wilkes County, Volume 1

 

Lane Harrison Dyer: The Notorious Outlaw Lige Church

 

Richard Eller: Well-Crafted: The History of the Western North Carolina Furniture Industry

 

Marcie Cohen Ferris, editor: Edible North Carolina: A Journey across a State of Flavor

 

Foothill Writers: Thomas Blanton, Stephen Downing, Michael Fitzgerald, Gretchen Griffith, Stefanie Hutcheson, Linda LaRose, Kathy Lyday, Carol Starr, Lucy Wilkes: Our Foothills III, Another Anthology

 

Gretchen Griffith: The Physician and the Forester, Marjorie and Bill Strawn: A Story of Devotion, Service, and Faith

 

Brenda Kay Ledford: Leatherwood Falls: Blue Ridge Mountain Poems

 

Ricky Moore with KC Hysmi: Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook

 

Marcia D. Phillips: Historic Shallow Ford in Yadkin Valley: Crossroads between East and West

 

Christopher Hunt Robertson: Carolinian Robertsons: The Family of Adjutant General T. R. Robertson

 

Christy A.  Smith: Lost Cove, North Carolina: Portrait of a Vanished Appalachian Community, 1864-1957

 

Wongalee Thomas with Gretchen Griffith: Separated by Oceans but Connected by Love: The Search for my Father, Humphrey Tja-A-Lien

 

Jimmy Tomlin: Instant Replay: 365 Days of North Carolina Sports Trivia

 

Judith Turner-Yamamoto: Loving the Dead and Gone

 

Willis P. Whichard: A Consequential Life: David Lowry Swain

 

Neal Brian Westveer: Track’n

 

Wilkes County Public Library, Suzanne Moore, Mara Lynn Tugman et al: Veteran’s History Project

 

Lindsay McAllister Zarse: The Gold Hole Quest 

MUSEUM

The History Museum of Burke County, Inc. Morganton, North Carolina

 

MULTIMEDIA

Linda Richards Crowder: The History of Granite Falls Middle School

Sue Curtis: 24th Annual Salisbury Confederate Symposium, April 21-23, 2023

Richard Hurley: Cataloochee

 

JOURNALISM

Anna Black: Kreg Anderson, Sarah Wiseman Cartner, and Bessie Cartner’s Trip to North Carolina: 1910-1911

Anna Black: Yadkin County Obituaries

John E. Ross: In Search of Gold – Following Hernando De Soto’s Historic and Devastating Legacy through the South

Dr. James Mullis: The Horned Shoes and the Hundred Year Curse

History Museum of Burke County: Museum Musings

 

Linda Willard: Georgia Ann “Tiny” Thompson Broadwick: First Woman to Jump From an Airplane and John “Jack” Roland Armstrong: July 12, 1871

 

 

PUBLISHER

Ed Curtis: The Prison Exchange

 

Barbara Norman: Yadkin Valley Magazine

Allen VanNoppen and Bill Poteat: The Paper



2023 SPECIAL AWARDS

STUDENT HISTORIANS: Project – Shadows of a Time Gone By 

Audrey Hill

Scout Green

Aiden Turner 

Stevie Watson

Jae Hollingsworth 

Celia Merrifield

EXCELLENCE IN HISTORY EDUCATION

Leslie McKesson

LIGHTHOUSE AWARD

Richard Eller

Gretchen Griffith

Jimmy Warlick

Willis P. Whichard

PRESIDENT’S AWARD

Leslie McKesson: Young Historians project – Antebellum Slavery in Appalachia

HISTORIAN OF THE YEAR

Claude Sitton