Carole Boston Weatherford
North Carolina Bookwatch

Princeville: 500 Year Flood
(Coastal Carolina Press; 2001)
Everyone knows that hurricanes bring devastating winds and rain, but what happens when the rain doesn't stop falling? As the author of more than a dozen books, Carole Boston Weatherford mines the past for family stories, fading traditions and forgotten struggles to answer this question and others in her newest book, Princeville: 500 Year Flood. Through the eyes of one Princeville family, the award-winning children's book writer shares the story of the eastern North Carolina floods that followed Hurricane Floyd's landfall in 1999 and the tough choice that followed of whether to stay and save their community or move to higher ground.

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