Commemorating 1898, and the search for descendants

Cape Fear Unearthed Podcast by Adam Fish

Oct 28, 202131:41Government & Organizations

This week, we talk to Jim Downey and Tim Pinnick of the New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project, who are involved with some of the efforts to commemorate the events of 1898, in part by finding the descendants of...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Cape Fear Unearthed Podcast.

Christmas shopping in the downtown Wilmington of yesteryear

Dec 19, 2022 - 21:12

We talk with longtime Wilmington resident Elaine Henson about what shopping downtown in the 1950s and '60...

Film documentary 'McKinley's Guns' digs into 1898 coup

Oct 20, 2022 - 25:26

Wilmington filmmaker Kent Chatfield played a starring role in "Wilmington on Fire," Christopher Everett's...

'Race, Place and Memory': Wilmington's troubled racial history

Oct 6, 2022 - 37:22

For this week's episode, we talk with Margaret M. Mulrooney, author of the book "Race, Place and Memory:...

When Shell Island was an island, and a Black beach resort

Aug 11, 2022 - 19:53

The tourists who stay there might not know, but the Holiday Inn at Wrightsville Beach, recently rebranded...

Revisiting The Barn: a legendary Wilmington jazz club and dance hall

Jun 24, 2022 - 22:13

We talk to Wilmington native and North Carolina jazz historian Larry Reni Thomas about The Barn, a club t...

A brief history of Eagles Island and Wilmington's 'west bank'

May 12, 2022 - 37:18

From the early days of rice plantations to its time as an industrial zone for Wilmington's naval stores i...

Wilmington corner stores, gone but not forgotten

May 6, 2022 - 16:27

Before the rise of chain grocery and convenience stores, dozens of mom-and-pop stores run by independent...

Roots of the GOAT: Michael Jordan's history in Wilmington

Apr 14, 2022 - 32:31

We talk with retired StarNews sports reporter Chuck Carree about Jordan's days in the '70s and '80s playi...