NEWS

Announcing CD Re-issues!

We are happy to announce the re-release of The Queen Family: Backporch Music and An Unclouded Day, two of our most popular CD releases, with new bonus material! The Queen Family: Backporch Music is a collection of traditional folk music performed - quite literally on their back porch - by members of the Queen family (featured in our documentary film The Queen Family), and now includes 6 new bonus tracks. An Unclouded Day is a collection of stories, conversations and local music by Appalachian mountain residents featured in our film Mountain Talk, and now includes 6 new bonus tracks.

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This Side of the River upcoming events

Several exciting opportunities to view This Side of the River are coming up! See below and also the film's website for information.

TV Airing
The film will air on SC ETV, South Carolina's PBS affiliate, on Thursday, February 7 at 10 PM as a part of the Southern Lens series! We are excited for South Carolina viewers to tune in.

Local Screening
The film will be screened at the North Carolina Museum of History on Saturday, February 9 at 10 AM in conjunction with the State Capitol’s new exhibit, With All Our Rights: North Carolina’s First African American Legislators. A panel discussion will follow the film, featuring the filmmakers, historian Earl Ijames, and a representative from the town of Princeville.

For more information about the February 9 event, see:
   • Press release from the North Carolina Museum of History [ Download PDF ]
   • Flyer from the State Capitol [ Download Word doc ]

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Remembering Roy Parsons 1921-2007 • Link to an online obituary from the Island Free Press • Download a photo of Roy

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The NCLLP & the NC State Linguistics Program have a new website! Click a link below to visit: [ NCLLP | NC State Linguistics ]

Talking NC email list Sign up to receive email updates from Talking NC here.

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NEWS ARCHIVE

Freedom's Voice

The Freedom's Voice exhibit closed on February 28. Thank you to all who supported it during its run at the Outer Banks History Center.

FREEDOM'S VOICE: Celebrating the Black Experience on the Outer Banks An interactive exhibit at the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo, NC June 1, 2006 - February 28, 2007 View photos of the exhibit's opening reception held on June 1 [PDFs]

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The Queen Family • The Queen Family aired nationwide on PBS in October. See www.queenfamilymovie.com for more information, and to look up your local station's broadcast time. • The Queen Family film was featured on WUNC's The State of Things on Monday, January 23. Listen to an archived edition of the hour-long broadcast, featuring Walt Wolfram, Neal Hutcheson, and Mary Jane Queen, in conversation with host Frank Stasio.

• See photos from the February 19, 2006 screening of The Queen Family at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts in Black Mountain, NC.

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This Side of the River

• This Side of the River was featured as part of Tarboro-Edgcombe county's History Days on Friday, September 29 at 8 pm at Edgecombe Community College's Tarboro campus. See the article here. • This Side of the River now available on DVD! Click here to order.