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Re-issue of Landmark 1943 book to debut at Nanticoke Pow Wow

 

Weslager

 

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ellen Trachtenberg
Office: 215-898-1674
Fax: 215-898-0404
ellenpt@pobox.upenn.edu


PHILADELPHIA, August 28, 2006 - One of Delaware's most sought after books, "Delaware's Forgotten Folk: The Story of The Moors & Nanticokes" by C. A. Weslager, is being reissued by the University of Pennsylvania Press. The paperback edition will premier at the 29th Annual Nanticoke Pow Wow on September 9 - 10. The Pow Wow will be held about eight miles east of Millsboro, Delaware (on Route 24).

Delaware's Forgotten Folk was originally published in 1943, and was the first book penned by one of Delaware's most popular and collectible authors the late C. A. Weslager. Between 1943 and 1989 Weslager wrote over 15 books on the State, including several about the Native American and tri-racial populations. Weslager passed away in August 1994.

Delaware's Forgotten Folk was considered ground breaking because it was one of the first books to document the lives of these unique groups. Because there has only been one previous limited reissue (in 1972), few copies of this book are currently available to the public. On-line collectible prices for either edition of the book range up to several hundred dollars

In late June the Nanticoke Indian Association contacted the University of Pennsylvania Press to request that they reissue the book to make it available for their annual Pow Wow, as well as the Nanticoke Indian Museum Gift Shop (Millsboro). The Association was motivated by a continuing effort to enhance the historical knowledge of new generations of Nanticokes, Moors, & Lenapes (a related tribe), as well as the general population. The limited availability of the previous editions was seen as a barrier to that effort.

Nanticoke Chief James "Tee" Norwood indicated that "there is a great deal of interest in this book among the tribe members. We wanted it reissued to make the information more accessible." William H. Daisey, a Nanticoke Tribal Council member stated "preserving and sharing Nanticoke history is an important part of our mission. Helping to make this book available facilitates that objective." The Nanticoke Indian Association even provided the cover photography (Dionne Williford & Linden Harmon, Photographers).

This landmark publication is being reissued (as a "limited" release) for the first time in 34 years due to the collaboration of the Nanticoke Indian Association, and the University of Pennsylvania Press. The paperback edition will retail for about $20.00, and is expected to be distributed to other fine bookstores in the region later in the year. For further information contact: Ellen Trachtenberg ellenpt@pobox.upenn.edu.


For more additional information:

Nanticoke Indian Association www.nanticokeindians.org
Nanticoke - Lenape Association (Southern NJ) www.nanticoke-lenape.org

 


 

Notes From Interviews 

With Residents of Cheswold in the early 1940's 

Surnames Mentioned:
Carney  Carter Clark Coker Counsellor Davis
Dean  Durham Hansley Hansor Hanzer Harmon
Hughes Jackson Johnson Kimmey Moore Morgan
Morris Mosley Munce Muncey Norwood Ridgeway
Sammons Seeney Songo 


OBITUARY 

Contains a list of Weslager's historical works

 

 


REFERENCE WORKS OF INTEREST






The Gouldtown (Cumberland County, New Jersey) book
can be purchased at the Fairfield Township Board of Education:

Att: Carol Gould
Fairfield Primary School
Bd. of Education
13 Ramah Rd.
Fairton, N.J. 08302
856-451-4990

Price: $15.50 and shipping charge is an additional $3.00.


OR

READ IT HERE:

Gouldtown: A Very Remarkable Settlement





Stone inscriptions in Kent County cemeteries:

SOULS IN HEAVEN, NAMES IN STONE. KENT COUNTY, DELAWARE CEMETERY RECORDS
Raymond W Dill, W. Martin Dill and Elizabeth Ann Bostick Dill
2 Volumes. 1989. Cloth. 1418 pp. Index.

OUT OF PRINT





Tombstones of Sussex County, Delaware, Vols 1 & 2
by Downstate Genealogical Society
Lists stone inscriptions in Sussex County cemeteries

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State of Delaware References -- Heritage Books




 

GENERAL COMMUNITY REFERENCES


(not limited to "mixed-blood" persons)

 

Some Records of Sussex County Delaware
Compiled by C. H. B. Turner

Lewes, Delaware Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott 1909 


Scanned by Barbara Johnson, who says: 

"I have a number of marriages, banns, births deaths in a book --

COMPLETE Index for the book
Some Records of Sussex County Delaware
Compiled by C. H. B. Turner, Lewes, Delaware

It is indexed for names. The book is a history of Sussex Co from 
1600-to a few records early 1800. Take a look and let me know 

if you need something checked out. I have typed out marriages 

from the book and just need to get those on the genweb site.

 

 

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