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Professional: I teach English at Pender High School, near Burgaw, North Carolina. I am a lateral entry teacher with a MA in English from the University of Maine, and a BA from Hampden-Sydney College a long time ago. I have taught High School for 11 years, before that I was a consultant, University Instructor, and Shift worker.

Personal: I am married to Judith Ann, a nurse and we have three children. My twin sons Reiland and Luke graduated from ECU in construction Management and work in the field, my daughter Sophie graduated from Davidson in English and is a Marine Officer currently at Camp Lejune.

Peculiar: I am tournament director for one of the biggest rugby tournaments in the country. My grandfather was superintendent of schools in New Hanover County. After college, I lived in New Zealand for a while.

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Professional: I am the Digital Access Manager at the State Archives of North Carolina. The State Archives has two main roles: to provide guidance concerning the preservation and management of government records to state, county, city, and state university officials; and to collect, preserve, and provide public access to historically significant archival materials relating to North Carolina. The unit I supervise, the Digital Access Branch, is similar to Michelle Underhill’s group at the State Library of NC in that we digitize materials from the State Archives’ collections and provide access to those resources online through the NC Digital Collections. We also partner with the State Library on other projects, including the preservation of state agency websites and social media.  In addition, we are responsible for maintaining the websites, social media, and online catalog of the State Archives.

Personal:  My mother is a retired junior high media specialist and as a child I spent most of my summers and teacher work days helping out in her library, including many hours typing catalog cards and working with an early version of a library computer catalog. Those experiences are part of the reason why I eventually went to library school. I thought I decided to become an archivist in graduate school, until I recently rediscovered a paper I wrote in high school. In the assignment we were asked to guess what we would be doing in 10 years – I said that I would either be a writer or an archivist. I have absolutely no recollection of even being aware of what an archivist was while I was in high school, but there you are.

Peculiar: I’m a science fiction movie and TV show fan, which isn’t all that peculiar although people are occasionally surprised by it. Doctor Who, Red Dwarf, Marvel Comics anything, Star Wars, Firefly, Blade Runner – if it’s popular science fiction media then I’ve probably either seen it or want to see it.

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Professional: I am the Instructional Technology Facilitator at Davidson Early College High School. I taught in elementary school for 8 years before making the transition to high school, and while it's VERY different, I love it!

Personal: My husband, Joe, and I grew up near Asheville, NC (we are high school sweethearts), but now we live in Lexington (near Winston-Salem). We moved here because of jobs; it's very difficult to get a teaching job in the mountains. We both went to Appalachian State and are die-hard Mountaineer fans! We have been married for almost 9 years. We have a Miniature Schnauzer named Yosef (named after the AppState mascot), and he is our world!

Peculiar: This is probably minuscule compared to others, but it's the only thing that comes to mind right now. I can't stand for my food to touch! If I order a meal at a restaurant, I sometimes tell them to bring things on separate plates. At home (and at my parents and in-laws houses as well), I have a divided plate that I use on a regular basis. If juices from 2 different foods end up running together, I create a sort of barrier and won't eat the places they touched.

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Professional: I am a Media Specialist at South Central High School in Pitt County. this is my second year in a high school; I was a Media Specialist in a middle school for many years. I have always lived in Greenville; except when I went to UNC-Chapel Hill many years ago.

Personal: My children are in their 30's and I now have two beautiful granddaughters that also live here in Pitt County. I enjoy spending time with my family at Atlantic Beach where I have spend many vacations. I am so looking foward spending time at Ocracoke; when I am near the water I seem to relax and come alive!

Peculiar: I am a history buff and have spent years doing geneology work here in Pitt County. George Washington rode by my ancestors house and watered his horses when he was on his Southern Tour in 1791. Most of the geneology work I did was before the internet and I had to spend hours in Court Houses and looking through microfilms at the ECU library. It is amazing that now everything is now digitized! I have an identical twin sister who also loves history and we find that we purchase the same books without knowing the other did it the same week!

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Professional: I teach eleventh grade English at Apex High School, where I help students grapple with the paradoxes present in American Literature. Five years ago, I did my student teaching at Apex HS. Before returning this year, I was teaching ninth grade English in Durham at Hillside High School.

Personal: I’m originally from Greenville, NC and then moved to the Triangle when I went to NC State for undergrad and my master’s. When applying to undergrad as a senior in high school, I wanted to teach History more than anything; however, I could not find the History Education option on the drop down menu to select a major. My mom even lent me her eyes and she, too, could not find the History option. So, I selected the English Education major as a placeholder, fully intending to switch to History once I arrived at State. I never changed my major to History, as I fell in love with Literature and Language. Fortuitous or Fate?

Peculiar: I like hiking and walking long distances. So a year ago, I walked from my home in Raleigh to the school where I taught in Durham. It was about 25 miles and took about ten hours. I plan to walk from my current home in Durham to Apex HS (roughly 20 miles) one day this spring.

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Professional: I am the Director of the Digital Information Management Program at the State Library of North Carolina's Government & Heritage Library (GHL). The GHL is the permanent repository for NC state government publications. My team is responsible for digitizing historical publications (primarily state government publications, but other published materials as well) to make them available electronically through the NC Digital Collections, a joint project with the State Archives of NC. We preserve born-digital state government publications, and, in conjunction with the State Archives, harvest state agency websites and social media. We also manage NCpedia.org, a free, online resource about NC that includes UNC Press's Encyclopedia of NC, Dictionary of NC Biography, and NC Gazetteer, select articles from the Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine, essays from the Research Branch of the State Archives, and more.

Personal: I live in Raleigh, NC with my husband, four parrots, and one rabbit. My husband is also a North Carolina history enthusiast. We visited the Outer Banks for a week in May two years ago and only spent two hours sitting on the beach. We mainly visited lighthouses and other historic sites.

Peculiar: I volunteer with bird and rabbit rehoming groups. I fostered a rabbit in January who was only supposed to be at my house for five days, as she was scheduled to be spayed and was then going to move to the local SPCA. On day three at my house, she had a litter of five kits in my kitchen. So, instead of fostering one rabbit for five days, I am now fostering six (mom and the five babies) for eight weeks, until they are weaned.

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Professional: I am a high school English teacher at Pender High School in Burgaw. I primarily teach English II and III, and I had the opportunity to teach mythology for the first time in the fall.

Personal: I am from New York, born and raised and educated. I moved to Wilmington to be closer to my brother and my nephew Ian who was born a little more than a year ago. I live with my boyfriend Jon and my two dogs, Petri, a Boston Terrier and Alfie, a rescue Pit Lab mix. We love Wilmington which leads me to my peculiar item...

Peculiar: I lived in Wilmington over 10 years ago after my high school graduation in 2004 and attended Cape Fear Community College where I played volleyball and helped my team to gain at a spot at the NJCAA national championship tournament in Missouri. None of this was planned and I moved on a whim. I despised Wilmington at that time so I quickly moved back to NY until the summer of 2011 when I returned to NC and now I absolutely love it. Timing is everything.

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Professional: I am an instructional leader and teacher for the North Carolina Virtual Public School. I also work part time at UNC Wilmington teaching a few education courses and supervising teacher interns.

Personal: My husband and I live in his hometown of Wilmington with our two girls, Mary Hampton (5) and Taylor (3). We also have two 9 year old rescue dogs - a lab mix and a hound mix. I love to run and play tennis.

Peculiar: My husband and I were both history majors at UNC-Chapel Hill during the same years, graduated at the same time, and even had classes together, but we never met until we both moved to Raleigh after graduation. Also, I love pimento cheese on cinnamon raisin bread - weird, but delicious!

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Professional: I am a center fellow at the North Carolina Center for
the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT), where I design and conduct seminars
and other programs for public school teachers.

Personal: When I was a student at UNC Chapel Hill I loved to spend time in the main library's NC Collection doing research about a book I was writing. It was here I realized the important of primary sources. It was here I realized how much we learn about the present from studying the past. My book Ocracokers was eventually published and I donated all the proceeds to Ocracoke School to purchase elementary literature books.

Peculiar: I still live in the same house where I grew up and where my mother was born and raised. While renovating the bathroom in the mid-1990s, I discovered a scrap of newspaper in the wall from the same year my mother was born: 1918.