Starting today, the North Carolina Museum of History is hosting a two-day symposium celebrating the 300th anniversary of the publication of John Lawson's A New Voyage to Carolina. They are unveiling an exhibit as well, in case you can't make the talks today or tomorrow. It will run through February. They also have a podcast on Lawson and his book by Jeanne Marie Warzeski, the curator of colonial and antebellum history. Lawson was a English naturalist and his book offers one of the best early descriptions of North Carolina's native peoples and landscape. Pretty cool. You can check out the narrative at the "Documenting the American South" site, hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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