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WILMINGTON – In Beverly Tetterton’s early days at the helm of the library’s Local History Room, she got a piece of memorable advice from a stalwart in the field – Leora Hiatt Billie McEachern.
“She came down to the library one day and told me that if I was going to be the local history librarian, I needed to know some local history,” Tetterton said.
Dry as it might sound, this was an invitation to the young librarian to learn from and alongside of McEachern’s hard-fought years of research and work that produced massively influential works but not always the same amount of respect.
WILMINGTON – Thumb through any local historian’s personal library and you’re likely to find a dog-eared, well-worn copy of Beverly Tetterton’s book, “Wilmington: Lost but Not Forgotten.”
A guide to the built history that defined Wilmington but fell victim to its progress and time, the book is an essential text on this region from its most essential historical voice of the last quarter century.
As the former special collections librarian and chief of the New Hanover County Library’s North Carolina Room, Tetterton has brought history to the masses in a way her predecessors didn’t. The likes of celebrated historians James Sprunt and Louis T. Moore preserved the Cape Fear’s stories in written accounts that have served as the backbone of local research for 100 years.