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