2011 Meeting Programs

January 6th Program Details
Featured Speaker: The Reverend E. T. Malone, Jr.
Program Title: "The Episcopal Church in the Confederacy"

The Granville County Genealogical Society starts off  the new year on January 6, 2011 at its monthly meeting with Rev. E. T. Malone as the featured speaker.

The Rev. Canon E. T. Malone, Jr., M. A., a resident of Warrenton, North Carolina, was Historiographer of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina from 1996-2006, Secretary of the Diocese, 1991-2001, an editor with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, and instructor in English at North Carolina Central University in Durham. He was editor of the diocesan newspaper, the Communicant. He is currently chairman of the diocesan Historic Properties Commission, chairman of the Warren County Memorial Library Board of Trustees, trustee of the Cherry Hill Historical Foundation, and Carolina Charter Corporation member.

He was editor of the Harnett County News, editor of the Dunn Dispatch, copy editor and feature writer with the Raleigh Times, and assistant city editor and assistant news editor with the Durham Sun. He holds degrees in English from Campbell University, where he won the Journalism Award and edited the student newspaper, and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his concentration was in Southern literature.

He is the author or co-author of four books, including Literary North Carolina and a volume of poetry titled The View from Wrightsville Beach. His articles, stories, and illustrations have been published in magazines and journals as varied as Our State, St. Andrew’s Review, North Carolina Historical Review, North Carolina Folklore Journal, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. His book reviews and articles on North Carolina literature have appeared in the Durham Morning Herald and the Raleigh News and Observer, and for four years he wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column reviewing Southern books.

A past president of the North Carolina Folklore Society, Canon Malone is priest-in-charge of St. James’ Episcopal Church, Kittrell, and rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Scotland Neck. He is a native of Wilson, North Carolina.

Among his earliest relatives to settle in North Carolina was a John Malone who received a land grant from Lord Granville on Mountain Creek in Granville County about 1752. He is also a descendant of Edward Jones and Abigail Shugan who settled in Warren County in 1737, and he is a direct descendant of Revolutionary officer Col. Nicholas Long of Halifax, N. C.

Visitors are cordially invited to join with members of the society for this special meeting to be held in the County Commissioner’s Meeting Room (across the street from Sunshine Biscuits) on Williamsboro Street in Oxford on January 6, 2011 at 6:30 PM.

All GCGS meetings are open to the public and guests are cordially invited to attend.

 

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