Monday, May 21, 2012
Our State Magazine
I have always enjoyed it, but finally gave up. When the 150th WBTS celebration started, they had a professor from UNC by the name of Philip Gerard writing monthly articles which were clearly biased against the South. I became weary of his castigating pieces and cancelled the subscription with explanation. I have also filed the magazines into an appropriate receptacle.
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The author you mention is a novelist from the creative writing department -- and very familiar with creating revisionist history. He is also the author of a revisionist history of the 1898 Wilmington conflict, and not a trustworthy source See a better rendition of the 1898 event at www.1898wilmington.com.
ReplyDeletewww.1898wilmington.com.
ReplyDeleteBingo! Shortly after I posted this, I sent the link to Bernhard Thuersam.:)
Thanks Brock, I feel your pain. Havent bought a Our State copy in years since they took a hard left turn, and my family boycotts its advertisers and let them know about it.
ReplyDeleteI checked that 1898 site--wordy but what Reconstruction information! Didnt know about the union league at all.
Tommy in Rocky Mount
Good job! Here are a couple of my links from NamSouth on the Union League and I have more. They are actually what caused the old KKK to form.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=203&highlight=union+league
(In two months of the same year in Edgecombe County, two churches, several cotton gins, a cotton factory, and many barns and homes were burned. [My county. BT])
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=533&highlight=union+league
"......Negroes who voted with the mass of the southern whites were persecuted, beaten, or even, in a few cases, killed."
Good information and I followed the links--why didnt I know about this "Union League" before and why isnt it in our North Carolina history books? As for the author, leave it to a novelist to fixate on the doctor in his "stories" (cant tell what to believe or not believe) and ignore the impact of war in North Carolina. Not being a historian, he may not be able to write about anyhting else.
ReplyDeleteTHe 1898 wilmington site is good!
why isn't it in our North Carolina history books?
ReplyDeleteThe lunatics are in charge of the asylum.:)
leave it to a novelist to fixate on the doctor in his "stories" (cant tell what to believe or not believe) and ignore the impact of war in North Carolina.
Purposely, of course.
Brock---I don's subscribe to the magazine but have read a couple of Philip Gerard's articles about Dr. Thomas Wood. But anyone could have learned about Dr. Wood by buying the well-written book "Doctor to the Front" written by Donald Koonce, and which Gerard seems to be quoting from verbatim. Whatever Our State is paying him is a waste of money.
ReplyDeleteThat Koonce book is excellent, I have it. It is a great description of the war's beginning and Dr. Fanning's experiences at the front lines. Once I saw the Our State articles about Wood, I went back and reread the Koonce book.
ReplyDeleteRJS
Very interesting and I should check this out, B. My birth name was William Brock Koonce, Jr. v. Donald Brock Koonce, Jr.
ReplyDeleteI went back and reread the Koonce book.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to get it then. Thanks and check out my new post.
http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2012/05/william-brock-koonce-jr-v-donald-brock.html
Posted incognito.:)
ReplyDeleteI understand that Gerard is head of the Creative Writing Department at UNC Wilmington, and he wrote the book “Cape Fear Rising,” a novel about the conflict. He created much furor from local families named in the novel and like one of your comments state, one doesn't know in historical fiction where the facts end and the fiction starts – and what is purely made-up.
Whilst on the BLANK, I found the book on the shelves of the BLANK amid factual books and documents and immediately had it taken off the shelf.
I feel the same way. When I first read that Our State was going to begin running a series of articles/stories on the War for Southern Independence I was excited. When the first one came in and I began reading it I ceased to be a fan of Our State. Freed up money better spent on hunting and shooting magazines.
ReplyDeleteFreed up money better spent on hunting and shooting magazines.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.:) The editor evidently has "cut off your nose to spite your face" down pat.:) By the way, Virginia Living is more than fair.