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978-0-89587-070-4
0-89587-070-3
$13.95 hardcover
175 pages
5 1/2" x 7 1/2"
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One August night, two young
law students knocked three times on the huge door to Blackbeard's
castle, spoke the secret password, and gained admission to a ceremony
steeped in local legend. Judge Charles Harry Whedbee was one of those
students, and he waited for over fifty years to tell the story of the
night he drank from Blackbeard's cup--the legendary silver-plated skull
of Blackbeard the Pirate.
For centuries, the people of
eastern North Carolina have spun tales to explain local phenomena and
bizarre happenings. For decades, Judge Whedbee collected and preserved
that lore. In Blackbeard's Cup and Stories of the Outer Banks, he
once again went to the source and returned with sixteen tales that
attest to the rich oral tradition of the coastal area.
Why does the stone arch over
the entrance to Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern drip blood on passing
mourners? Who carved the name CORA in the gigantic live oak tree on
Hatteras Island? What causes the sound of cannons firing off the coast
of Vandemere in the summer? How did the rare creature known as the sea
angel come to be? Why did an Edenton doctor spend a fortune searching
for buried treasure? These are only a few of the mysteries contained in
this fifth collection from North Carolina's beloved raconteur.
about the author
Charles Harry Whedbee was born in Greenville, North Carolina, where
he resided until his death in 1990. Educated at the University of North
Carolina, he took his law degree from that school in 1932. He served for
years as Chief District Court Judge of the Third Judicial District. When
Judge Whedbee published Legends
of the Outer Banks in 1966, it proved so popular that it went
through three printings in its first year. With the publication of The
Flaming Ship of Ocracoke in 1971, Outer
Banks Mysteries in 1978, Outer
Banks Tales to Remember in 1985, and Blackbeard's Cup in
1989, Judge Whedbee established himself as the foremost authority on
North Carolina's coastal folklore.
Other books by Judge Whedbee:
Legends of the
Outer Banks
The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke
Outer Banks Mysteries
Outer Banks Tales to Remember
Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore |
