Serving Boone, Blowing Rock, Banner Elk, and other towns of the North Carolina High Country
Founded 05-05-05
March 22, 2007 issue
The North Carolina Society of Historians is now accepting entries for its 2007 awards program from state, regional and local historians, church historians, family historians, genealogists, publishers, museums and all those whose goal is to collect and preserve Tar Heel history, whether through the written word, film, video or tape.
If you are the composer of a song, producer of a drama, creator of a website, author of a book, sponsor of a museum or producer of any publication or enterprise that sheds new light on any aspect of the history of the Old North State, you are eligible to enter the competition.
Entrants pay no fees and do not have to be members of the North Carolina Society of Historians. However, a completed entry form must accompany each entry.
Award categories include history book, newspaper or magazine article, publisher, museum, family history, church history, historical fiction, journal, newsletter and multimedia. The society also presents the N.C. Historian of the Year award. Except for the Historian of the Year award, entrants need not be residents of North Carolina.
Obtain an entry form from the society’s website at www.ncsocietyofhistorians.org by clicking the Awards link. Alternatively, email a request to ncsh@earthlink.net or write Elizabeth Sherrill, NCSH president, at P.O. Box 93, Sherrills Ford, NC 28673-0093.
The deadline for submission is June 30. Recipients of awards will be notified in late summer. The annual awards program will be held in Sanford on Saturday, October 13. Presentation of a historical play by Lynn Veach Sadler is scheduled on Friday evening, October 12, also in Sanford.