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Also by Miller Pope

Miller Pope's Book of Pirates

Delve into the treasure of Brunswick's past

Tales of the Silver Coast
A Secret History of North Carolina's Brunswick County

Miller Pope
with Jacqueline DeGroot
8 x 10, 144 pages, illustrated, with index
ISBN 978-0-9755910-8-6, hardcover $24.95 USD

From the earliest days of European exploration—and
before—to the golf courses and beach resorts in this fascinating
and fast-growing region, Brunswick County has
attracted settlers and visitors of all descriptions.

Read about
>> Stede Bonnet, the “Gentleman Pirate,” who
hid his ships in Brunswick’s moss-draped creeks but unfortunately
underestimated the ebbing tide.

>>“Mrs. Calabash,” who’s said to have lent her name to the
famous sign-off for Jimmy Durante’s classic radio shows.

>>Topsy the Elephant, who swam for the Brunswick riverbank
after breaking loose from circus handlers in the 1920s.

>>The P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft that crashed on the
beach during a World War II training mission, only to resurface
after a hurricane in the 1990s.

In Tales of the Silver Coast, Miller Pope recounts the
tales of privateers and plantation owners, politicians and
Prohibition rum-runners, the many colorful people and
diverse places of southeastern North Carolina in this engaging
collection of stories illustrated in his distinctive style.