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African American Heritage & Culture Center
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
AAHC Art Installation
Edna Stewart's "Chesapeake Bay Shad Fishers & Catch" Installed at Godwin Library/Craven Community College The African American Heritage & Culture (AAHC) Center, Craven Arts Council & Gallery (CACG) and Craven Community College collaborated to display a unique piece of artwork. The painting, "Chesapeake Bay Shad Fishers and Catch" by artist Edna Stewart was installed in the college's Godwin Memorial Library on April 7. Artist Edna Stewart crafted the painting in 2020. The hist
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Charlie Hall, Journalist, NBSJ
- Apr 1, 2021
- 4 min
Lee Hood's Mural is an Historical Look at Five Points in New Bern
The following article was written by reporter Charlie Hall and published March 30, 2021 in the New Bern Sun Journal with images by Norman J. McCullough. There’s new outdoor art near downtown New Bern, at the intersection of Queen and Pollock streets – a five-way intersection, a block from the more well-known Five Points on Broad Street. The historic depiction didn’t some suddenly. It’s actually a five-year work of popular local artist Lee Hood. He is known by many over the ye
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Claudia Houston
- Apr 1, 2021
- 3 min
Mrs. Ernestine Simmons Pritchett New Bern's FIRST Woman Postal Worker
Learn more about the First Women Postal Worker in New Bern in this story by Claudia Houston, Historian for the New Bern Historical Society published during March, 2021, Women's History Month. It is Women’s History month and we have a delightful story to tell that also involves a “New Bern First”. Ms. Linda Jones and Ms. Barbara Saunders contacted me to tell me the story of their sister, Ernestine Simmons Pritchett, who made history here in New Bern. Here is her story: On July
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