PROLOGUE STARTS AT 5pm
Monday, October 14th
The MC Erny Gallery
On Monday, October 14th, at 5pm in the MC Erny Gallery, host Ben Steelman of The Star News will sit down with author Jack E. Fryar to discuss his latest book, "Charles Town on the Cape Fear."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jack E. Fryar, Jr. is a life-long resident of southeastern North Carolina, born and raised in Wilmington. He has been a professional writer and publisher since 1994. In 2000, Jack founded Dram Tree Books, a small publishing house whose titles tell the story of North Carolina and the Carolina coast. He has authored or edited twenty-two volumes of North Carolina and Cape Fear history, and is a frequent lecturer for historic groups in the region. Jack serves on the board of the Friends of Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site, and is a member of several other history related friends groups. He is also the editor and publisher of a new digital magazine, Carolina Chronicles, covering the history of North and South Carolina. The free magazine debuts in September 2015, and you can access it by “liking” the Carolina Chronicles page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/CarolinaChronicles). His historical specialty is colonial North Carolina, particularly during the seventeenth century. Jack has served as a United States Marine, worked as a broadcaster, freelance magazine writer, sports announcer, and book designer. He holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where his thesis was "Charles Towne on the Cape Fear: The Rise and Fall of Carolina's First West Indian Colony." Jack is currently working toward a second Masters, this one in Teaching with an emphasis on Secondary Education, and has four more books ready to go to press.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
While South Carolina may have the famous Charles Town, the first settlement to bear that name in Carolina was on the Cape Fear River between 1664-1667. Now, for the first time, author and historian Jack E. Fryar, Jr. has written the first book that tells the story of those settlers. Despite their best efforts, world events and a competing colony to the south would doom the John Vassall settlement at Cape Fear, "reduced more by faction than necessity."
