Books published by publisher Chapel Hill Press, Inc

Keep Singing is the inspiring story of Eloise Vaughn and Patsy Clarke, two women who became the unlikeliest of activists and gave a new face to the fight against bigotry and hatred. In 1995, after having each lost a son to AIDS and after failing to persuade the notoriously homophobic senator Jesse Helms to soften his antigay stance, the two women formed Mothers Against Jesse in Congress to drive him from office. Their journey would carry them from their quiet North Carolina homes to the stage of the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Their battle would put their names and faces in the pages of People magazine and The New York Times. And their lives would be changed forever, driven now by the desire that even in death their children would be given the simple human respect that is due everyone.

Wat, A Son of the Civil War is a coming-of-age story about a real, curious, and wise-beyond-his-years boy in a North Carolina rail¬road village during the Civil War. Known as Page’s Station at the time, that railroad crossing 150 years later is known as Cary, North Carolina, a sprawling, bustling hub of 21st-century technology. Allison Francis Page, for whom the junction was called, was its founder and also the father of Wat, the family nickname for his son, Walter Hines Page (WHP). The story of Cary’s founding and early growth and the story of young WHP’s boyhood are filled with pathos and Tom Sawyer–like anecdotes. A historical novella is for history lovers of all ages, especially Civil War aficionados. This book relates the events in Wat’s small village during the Civil War, and how his experiences became the bed¬rock of his adult careers and the good works that flowed from them for North Carolina, the South, and the United States—establishing Walter Hines Page as a man worthy of a presence in our contemporary conscious¬ness, especially residents of the Old North State.

Hops is a happy toad who lives under the porch of Slim Pete. They form a friendship when Pete discovers Hops eating all the flies who come to visit the front porch at night. Together they dream up of a place where the water runs clean, the oceans are safe for our fishes and everyone recycles and grows their own food. This book has been produced on recycled paper with soy inks.