The Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library is pleased to announce that the digitization of the Chowan Herald from 1934 to 2019 is now complete!
Thanks to a generous grant from the Edenton Woman’s Club, you can now find past articles in the Chowan Herald online for free from the comfort of your home.
Thanks to the efforts of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill’s North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, these historic newspapers are available through DigitalNC.org and are fully text-searchable. Following copyright rules from the publisher, another year of the Chowan Herald will be added in January 2025.
This development is a game-changer for local historians, researchers and genealogists, as Edenton and Chowan County’s newspaper history is now freely accessible and searchable with only the click of a mouse! Since our local history is now available to researchers all over the world, this also creates an opportunity for people around the globe to connect with their ancestors.
Again, we extend special thanks to the Edenton Woman’s Club for providing multiple grants over the past decade to bring this important resource to the public. We would also would like to thank Apex Clean Energy and their Timbermill Wind grant for helping make this possible. We would also like to thank the Chowan Herald, its parent company, Adams Publishing Group, and Editor Julian Eure for working with us on this digitization project.
Finally, I would like to thank East Carolina State University, UNC Chapel Hill’s North Carolina Digital Heritage Center, and Lisa Gregory for digitally preserving and sharing Edenton and Chowan County’s history.
Stay tuned, as this is only the start of our digitization efforts! In the meantime, check out some of our latest releases listed below. Have a great week, and we hope to see you at the library!
Adult Fiction:
“The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr” by Susan Holloway Scott
“Nocturne” by Alyssa Wees
“Sword Catcher” by Cassandra Clare
“The Last Woman in the Forest” by Diane Les Becquets
“Between the Tides” by Angel Khoury
“Dream Girl” by Laura Lippman
“The Great Fire” by Shirley Hazzard
Non-fiction:
“The Yackety Yack 1930” by UNC Chapel Hill
“The Agromeck 1952” by N.C. State
“1962 The Buccaneer of East Carolina College”
“The 1959 Chanticleer” by Duke University
“1961 The Buccaneer of East Carolina College”
“1960 The Buccaneer of East Carolina College”
“The Yackety Yack 1942” by UNC Chapel Hill
“The Yackety Yack 1941” by UNC Chapel Hill
“The Agromeck 1943” by N.C. State
“The Yackety Yack 1931” by UNC Chapel Hill
“The Agromeck 1949” by N.C. State
Young Adult fiction/non-fiction:
“The Ballad of Never After” by Stephanie Garber
“Long Live the Pumpkin Queen” by Shea Ernshaw
Juvenile fiction:
“The illustrated Robin hood” by Rob Jones
“The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahme
Juvenile easy fiction:
“Bunny with a big heart” by Sadler
“You’re the Hugs to my Kisses” by Barbara Herndon
“I am Not the Easter Bunny” by T.L. McBeth
“Bear Hugs!” by Eric Carle
Easy board books:
“Pixar Buddy Block” by Partington
“Batman Block” by Batman
“Good Night Farm” by Hegarty
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