Today I received an unexpected parcel from Peggy Ward Rawheiser, a well-known figure in heritage Universalist circles: her new revision of the classic A History of Universalism in North Carolina. I’m quite pleased to receive it. (Thank you.)
At first I thought I would review it in full, but since it functions more like a sourcebook — and a big one; image a Unitarian Universalist Association directory — than a conventional secondary history, I’ll have to come up with a different mode of analysis.
Some will want a copy whatever I have to say, so I figure the least I can do now is leave behind ordering informtion:
A History of Universalism in North Carolina
c/o Guild Masters
P O Box 31184
Raleigh NC 27622-1184
The price is 24.95 plus 5.00 shipping and handling. Make checks payable to the Universalist Convention of North Carolina.
I read about it in the UU History list. I have some sentimental attachment to North Carolina because I travelled to the Triangle area several times between 1996 and 2001 due to Day Job reasons. I used to stay at the local Studio Plus apartments and I drove around often. At that time I also visited a few UU congregations in the area, particularly Eno River in Durham, at the time when A. Straube was the senior minister. Those were some good times for me in NC…