2018-2019

James Issac Metts

Historic Preservationist, Retired Insurance Executive

Hampstead, North Carolina

Chair

Dr. John Humphries

Retired Professor of the Humanities

Wilmington, North Carolina

Vice Chair

Dr. Kearney Smith

Writer, Poet, Distinguished Professor of English.

Burnsville, North Carolina

Secretary-Treasurer

Alexander McAllister Cheek

Historian of Southern Culture and Heritage.

Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Distinguished Author and Professor of History,

University of South Carolina; Editor, John C. Calhoun Papers

Columbia, South Carolina

Dr. Timothy R. Wyatt

Historian, Geotechnical Engineer, Environmental Law.

Stoneville, North Carolina

Howard Talley, III

Comptroller and Historian

Wilmington, North Carolina

Hank Estep

Civic Leader and Cultural Activist

Wilmington, North Carolina

Leonard M. Smith, Jr.

Philanthropist, Adventurist, Bon Vivant

Wilmington, North Carolina

I n s t i t u t e A d m i n i s t r a t i o n:

Bernhard Thuersam

Wilmington, North Carolina
Executive Director and Editor

Tamara Lee Richards

Research/Transcription