Wayne County Agriculture: Harvesting Our History

10/09/2019

EVERY NORTH CAROLINIAN has an OPINION on BBQ
In North Carolina, we love our tasty, regional, home-grown barbecue. From the earliest history of cooking meats over flames and coals to modern methods, North Carolina has a proud barbecue tradition, featured at family and community gatherings across the state.

The Story of BBQ in North Carolina explores the emergence of hog cultivation and food made from them as a centerpiece of many gatherings. The exhibit also fuels the East vs West debate about sauces and condiments, even as it seeks to explain that the eastern vinegar base and the western tomato ketchup enhanced versions really aren’t that different.

Traveling exhibit at the WAYNE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY provided by the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources with support by the NC Pork Council.

08/02/2019

Home movie footage courtesy of Wayne Aycock, digitized by the Wayne County Public Library.

Home movie footage filmed by George Aycock at a Wayne County livestock show during the late 1950s-60s. The Wayne County Public Library and the Wayne County C...

12/11/2018

Shared by Debbie Debra Bartlett​ circa 1920.

Wayne County Public Library

07/22/2018

Moore and Robinson’s Coffins and Robes, Circa 1912
South John Street.

Photo is James J. Robinson (1847-1919) who worked as the funeral director. The original 1870s photograph came from the Odd Fellows Neuse Lodge 6 (IOOF), which was subsequently gifted to the Wayne County Public Library, Local History Collection. Special thanks to Bob Fuller.

07/22/2018

05/02/2018

ODD FARM STORY
Goldsboro News-Argus
August 9, 1934

Wayne County Public Library
Local History Collection