Memoirs by local authors are good reading
By Scott Bigelow Two memoirs by Lumbee authors were on my reading list recently: Moon Dash Warrior (1998) by Delano Cummings and Hotdogs...
Newspapers are a ‘rough draft of history’
By Scott Bigelow According to a report in a 1906 edition of The Robesonian, the Daughters of the Confederacy raised $1,300 toward the...
Bill Norment: A legacy in black and white
By Scott Bigelow ‘This isn’t routine newspaper work, it’s art.’ William Douglas Norment was one of North Carolina’s great photographers,...
A Treasury of Local Authors
By Scott Bigelow Among the selections in the growing library of the Robeson County History Museum is a signed copy of “Death Sentence,”...
The Painting Mystery
By Scott Bigelow The recent donation of an historic piece of art to the Robeson County History Museum presented a puzzle and a...
Lumberton's first bank: 1897-1970
By Scott Bigelow When banks were collapsing across the nation during the Great Depression, the story of the National Bank of Lumberton’s...