For generations, shove poles have helped boaters navigate the shallow waters of Currituck, Albemarle, and Pamlico sounds.
Hidden History: Student Bus Drivers
In this episode of Hidden History, Brad Campbell explores a storied workforce from North Carolina’s past: the high schoolers who helmed the local school buses.
The High Schoolers Steering Big Wheels
For more than half a century, student bus drivers helped North Carolina achieve one of the most efficient pupil transportation systems in the nation.
Rolling Refreshment
During the first half of the 20th century, workers in North Carolina’s textile mills found respite in dope wagons — mobile carts stocked with relief.
Hidden History: Camp Catawba
Writer Brad Campbell heads to western North Carolina where he visits the site that once was Camp Catawba, a summer playscape for boys to grow in an idyllic world of nature, music, art, theater, and literature.
Camp Dreamland
In 1944, a Jewish refugee from Berlin started a summer camp near Blowing Rock, nurturing a generation of boys in an idyllic world of nature, music, art, theater, and literature.
North Carolina’s Bottle Hunter
In this episode of Hidden History, Brad Campbell takes us to Selma, where we meet Scott Given, a dedicated collector of antique glass bottles and steward of the histories they symbolize.
