Public Announcement
♦ SCV Camp 405 will present a program by award-winning author and historian Michael C. Hardy on the “War in Western North Carolina”. The presentation will take place in the Stanback Room at the Rowan Public Library this Wednesday evening August the 13th at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Hardy authored numerous books about the War Between the States including “North Carolina Remembers Gettysburg,” “Civil War Charlotte,” “North Carolina in the Civil War” and “Remembering North Carolina’s Confederates.”
Mr. Hardy was honored as the 2010 North Carolina Historian of the Year and is an eight-time winner of the Willie Parker Peace History Book Award from the North Carolina Society of Historians. In 2012 he was honored with the Alice Parker Award for Outstanding Work in Literature and Arts from the University of Alabama. Through his very popular North Carolina and the Civil War blog, Hardy shares his research and insights and invites conversation from readers.
Hardy regularly volunteers with a number of local historical societies and associations. He is a member of numerous national organizations, like the Civil War Trust, The Society of Civil War Historians, and the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He lives with his wife Elizabeth, an English professor at Mayland Community College and literary scholar, their son Nathaniel, and their daughter Isabella.
The even is free and open to the public.
