Newest edition of Life on the Pamlico is now online

The 2011 edition of Life on the Pamlico, has been published on the Beaufort County Community College website.

Life on the Pamlico is a journal of oral histories from residents of coastal North Carolina. These volumes are a continuation of a tradition at Beaufort County Community College that dates back to 1981.

Spearheading the effort were BCCC English instructor Bryan Oesterreich and BCCC’s Academic Support Center Coordinator James Casey. Oesterreich was the editor and Casey designed the layout for Life on the Pamlico.“The format has changed from a question and answer style to biographical narratives,” Oesterreich said. “Students in my Cultural Studies college transfer class spent this fall semester interviewing residents of our area (most of whom are relatives) and wrote their stories to preserve the richness that was their way of life – for generations to come. Find a comfortable chair, pour a glass of sweet tea, and learn about how life used to be – Downeast Style.”
Said Casey, “When we first discussed a redesign of the LOTP publication, we had only begun to realize the possibilities that a purely digital format would afford. It is a paradox of sorts, in that technologies so thoroughly alien to many of the subjects in this publication, have become such an asset in preserving these glimpses of their past.”
The stories featured in the 2011 edition include; Shirley Jean Roberson – What’s Mine is Yours by Charlotte Simpson, Jessie Moore – I have enjoyed My Life by Amber Stephenson, Betty Buck Harrison – The Loving Mrs. Betty by Lashawnda Howard, Henrietta “Mudduck” Gorham – Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair by Kenneth Worsley, Linda McGhee Woolard – Anything But an Ordinary Life by Karen Harris, Mary Jane Oden – I Had Some Bumps But I Had Some Good Times Too by Sarah Luberisse, Donald Spencer – A Man Full of Wisdom, Mary Ann Johnson – Dear Mama by SheQuonia Stanley, and Linda Leigh Williams Woolard – Rooted in Family by Kimberly Woolard.

The 2011 edition of Life on the Pamlico is available at www.beaufortccc.edu/lotp.