Bøker av Joe Sledge

In 1930, Stanley Green left the confines of North Carolina's Piedmont with its tree covered rolling hills to head to an unknown land. Avon, on the rugged Cape Hatteras coast, had sent for him to be the principal and high school teacher to their teen age students. With no idea what to expect, he set out to find Avon, but instead he discovered Kinnakeet, the original name for the village, where the girls were indescribably beautiful and the boys were strong willed and aggressive. Instead of becoming the challenging taskmaster who would fight the students of Kinnakeet, he joined with them, to educate the youth of the coast.For twelve years Stanley would teach Kinnakeet's teens. He fought for them, instead of against them, earning a sense of trust and respect among the Kinnakeeters, young and old. He would face the struggles and obstacles that only people on the coast could know, from hurricanes and nor'easters, to seeing his school destroyed, only to be built anew.Stanley would bond with the locals as he listened to their stories, documenting their lives with respect for the hardships they all faced. He captures the history of Kinnakeet and the coast of the Outer Banks by writing down and retelling the oral histories told to him while he was there. Ultimately, Stanley Green would become an important figure to the village, and earn the title of Kinnakeeter for himself.Kinnakeet Adventure tells Stanley's story of the twelve years he served as a teacher and principal, from the first moments of him leaving college at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, through all the battles he had to educate the students of Kinnakeet. Stanley would learn to face the sometimes difficult and rugged lifestyle of a Kinnakeeter while he taught. He would build an educational system he and the rest of Avon could be proud of. Stanley would teach into the beginnings of World War II on the coast of North Carolina, when he finally left his career to become a Coast Guardsman, only to end up protecting the same village he loved. This book was originally written by Stanley Green in 1971, with the current print published by a distant descendant of his. This version includes several appendixes by Joe Sledge, who is a vague great-great-nephew of Stanley's, as well as an author of several North Carolina books.

Hidden beneath the sandy beaches and deep within the twisted coastal forests of the Outer Banks are the old ghost tales that permeate the Outer Banks coast of North Carolina. These stories can go back decades or centuries. Far from the usual legends that are often told and retold, this collection of thirteen tales of harrowing haunts delivers traditional folk tales and mysterious events including some that have rarely, if ever, been written in print before.You won't find the usual stories in here, no pirates on the wind, but there are still plenty of ghosts to go around. Spectral figures are seen on the ocean waves, or wandering late at night in a house on Roanoke Island. Strange lights appeared on long lost sand dunes and old, creepy beach houses. Ghostly figures still walk the land around Hatteras, including a musical spirit from beyond the grave. Witches, too, make their appearance, casting spells for good or ill on the land and its inhabitants. There is even a spectral hand that appeared from a solid wall of an Outer Banks landmark and a tragic shipwreck that appears only to the unlucky few who hear the sounds just offshore, late at night.Go check your front door to be sure it is locked. Will that keep the ghosts out as you read? Turn on the porch light, maybe that will help. Or perhaps the glow of a campfire will keep the spirits at bay, just outside in the darkness, as you enjoy Haunting The Carolina Coast. These thirteen stories will be sure to entertain you. But don't be surprised if you open the book and it gives you a little shiver, too. Prepare to be scared.