If you think you know Delaware, think again. Pirates? Quakers fighting with Pennsylvania? Towns so ugly no one would settle there? With stunning pictures and straightforward storytelling, Dave Tabler opens hidden passages and describes defining momen
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Blake Tyner comes by his love of history naturally. A descendant of some of the earliest colonial settlers of North Carolina, he grew up with a love of history that has propelled him to delve into the records and archives of North Carolina from an early age.
He holds a Masters of Library Science with a specialization in archives. He is a graduate of UNCP with a history degree, while a student there his undergraduate historical research has led to the publication of Images of America: Robeson County and Robeson County in Vintage Postcards (both have won the North Carolina Society of Historians Willie Parker Peace Historical Book awards). His first book Goin' for a Soldier won the North Carolina Society of Historians Willie Parker Peace Historical Book award in 2000.
He pursues his avocation as the Curator of the Robeson County History Museum. He has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and is former President of the Society of North Carolina Archivists. Blake is married to the former Bess Hubbard and they have a son.
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