Archive for 'Hurricanes'
David Stick 1919-2009
UNC Press author Bland Simpson has made his name on a myriad of talents, one of which is his superb ability to write about North Carolina’s coastline. Since 1993, UNC Press has published five of Simpson’s books about the area, with the most recent work–The Inner Islands–scheduled for paperback publication in the spring of 2010.
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Posted: July 17th, 2009 under Environmental Studies, Fiction, History, Hurricanes, Literature, Nature, North Carolina, Public Policy, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
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Gustav Update from New Orleans
The following is an email sent on 4 Sep 2008 by UNC Press author Lance Hill to his mailing list of friends. Lance, as some of you may remember from my entry on the anniversary of Katrina, is not only an acclaimed author, but also a professor at Tulane University and a long-time New [...]
Posted: September 8th, 2008 under American History, Guest Bloggers, Hurricanes, Public Policy.
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Hurricane Season Comes to the Carolinas
Less than a week after Hurricane Gustav kept many of us watching The Weather Channel, hoping New Orleans would be spared a repeat of the flooding damage brought by Hurricane Katrina, those of us in North Carolina are now watching as Tropical Storm Hanna is taking aim at the Carolina coastline.
Many of us here [...]
Posted: September 5th, 2008 under Hurricanes, Nature, North Carolina, UNC Press News, Weather.
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