According to Hoyle

]> pc_hoyle_bernadette Finding Aid for the Bernadette Hoyle Papers, 1945 - 1950, 1952 - 1983 Processed by: George Stevenson; machine-readable finding aid created by: Fran Tracy-Walls &hdrNcDncsa; Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: July, 2002 Description is in English August, 2004 Converted from Version 1.0 to Version 2002, and re-encoded by Ashley Yandle. Finding Aid for the Bernadette Hoyle Papers, 1945 - 1950, 1952 - 1983 North Carolina State Archives &tpNcDncsa; Descriptive Summary North Carolina State Archives. Hoyle, Bernadette Woodlief. Bernadette Hoyle Papers, 1945 - 1950, 1952 - 1983 PC.1773 Material in English 2.5 8 Letters and press cuttings, including ten scrapbooks mounted with newspaper feature articles written by Mrs. Hoyle between 1945 and 1950 and three mounted with clipped copies of her newspaper column entitled According to Hoyle, published during the years 1946-1950. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives. Bernadette Woodlief Hoyle (1912-1989) was a central figure in the literary life of North Carolina during her career as a journalist and professional photographer. This collection of her papers constitutes only a portion of Mrs. Hoyle's writings and correspondence, and date for the most part from the first five years of her career. They include Mrs. Hoyle's writings (1945-1950), correspondence and research files for her book published in 1956, Tar Heel Writers I Know, and a series of file's relating to the North Carolina Writers' Conference (1952-1983). Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], PC.1773, Bernadette Hoyle Papers, 1945-1950, 1952-1983, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Acquisitions Information

Bequeathed to the North Carolina State Archives by Mrs. Hoyle in her will dated June 6, 1988 (proved August 15, 1989).

Processing Information

Processed by George Stevenson, November 30, 1989

Encoded by Fran Tracy-Walls, July 19, 2002

Biographical Note

Bernadette Woodlief Hoyle (1912-1989), journalist and professional photographer, was a central figure in the literary life of North Carolina during most of her career. Though these papers do not reflect it, Mrs. Hoyle was, on more than one occasion, winner of the literary award given by the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, founder and director of the Tar Heel Writers' Roundtable (1965-1984), historian of Campbell University and biographer of James Archibald Campbell, author of several small publications in addition to her chef oeuvre, Tar Heel-Writers I Know, director of publicity for first the State Board of Public Welfare then the North Carolina Council on Mental Retardation, and served as writer to the North Carolina Democratic Party Executive Committee.

Collection Overview

This present collection of her papers constitutes only a portion of Mrs. Hoyle's writings and correspondence, and date for the most part from the first five years of her career. They fall into three categories: (1) Mrs. Hoyle's writings, 1945-1950 (approximately half the collection); (2) correspondence and research files for her book published in 1956, Tar Heel Writers I Know (approximately 3/8 of the collection) ; and (3) a series of file's relating to the North Carolina Writers' Conference, 1952-1983 (approximately 1/8 of the collection). Apart from the Writer's I Conference, the collection includes nothing from the last thirty years of Mrs. Hoyle's professional life and shed no light on her role in creative writing in North Carolina.

Collection Arrangement

The materials in the eight boxes of Mrs. Hoyle's papers are arranged as follows:

Personal Papers Carolinas Press Photographers' Association, 1950-1954 North Carolina Writers' Conference, 1950-1983 According to Hoyle, 1946-1950 Tar Heel Writers I Know Newspaper Feature Articles, 1945-1950 Miscellaneous

The following issues of the Henderson Daily Dispatch containing articles on the last days and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti have been transferred to the Newspaper Collection (NP.42): 1927 Aug 23 (2 copies), 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30.

Online Catalog Headings

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Subject Terms Actors. Aerialists. Astrologers. Authors. Carolinas Press Photographers' Association. Churches. Clergy. Green, Paul, 1894-1981. North Carolina Writers Conference. Straus, Gertrude, 1895-1977. Mangold, Anne Gilbert. Evarts, John, 1908- Related Material

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) at http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us

Container List Personal Papers PC.1773.1 Biographical data Correspondence re. Feature Articles 1946-1948 1954 Carolinas Press Photographers Association, 1950 - 1954

Includes a copy of the Association' s constitution and several issues of its newsletter.

North Carolina Writers' Conference, 1950 - 1983

Includes retrospective list of the meeting places and organizers of the annual conferences from 1950 through 1967. The folder for each meeting may contain programs, form letters, press cuttings, and brochures. The folder for the 1957 conference includes planning correspondence from, among others, Mebane H. Burgwyn, Ina Forbus, Lodwick Hartley, Richard Walser, Manly Wade Wellman, and Tom Wicker. Files of material are lacking for the conferences held in 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1961, and 1967

Tar Heel Writers I Know

These three boxes contain correspondence and press cuttings used in, or relating to, preparation of the manuscript for the book. With the exceptions of Legette Blythe, Inglis Fletcher, and Kermit Hunter, there are files for the thirty-five North Carolina authors represented in Tar Heel Writers I Know: Zoe Kincaid Brockman; Marion Brown; Mebane Holoman Burgwyn; Sam Byrd; Ruth and Latrobe Carroll; Jonathan Daniels; Burke Davis; Lambert Davis; Wilma Dykeman; Charlotte Hilton Green; Paul Green; Frank Borden Hanes; John Harden; Bernice Kelly Harris; Lodwick Hartley; Noel Houston; Hugh T. Lefler; Dave Morrah; Frances Gray Patton; James Larkin Pearson; Ovid Williams Pierce; William T. Polk; Fred Ross; Phillips Russell; Dr. Frank G. Slaughter; Walter Spearman; Thad Stem, Jr.; David Stick; James Street; Richard Walser; Manly Wade Wellman; and Tom Wicker.

Most of the folders include an autobiographical sketch prepared by each writer, some of them commenting on their individual techniques or philosophy. The autobiographical sketch of Bernice Kelly Harris includes remarks on her writing practices and development of characters in her novels. The material on Richard Walser includes his Sept. 24, 1960, stinging rebuttal, Un-Incidentally, of Nell Battle Lewis' ill-natured attacks on the Literary Map of North Carolina prepared by Primrose (Mrs. Joel Francis Paschal) and published under the auspices of the North Carolina English Teachers' Association. Although a special scrapbook relating to James Street kept by Mrs. Hoyle is not with the papers, a folder of duplicates of at least some of that material is in a folder in Box 8.

PC.1773.2Brockman - Dykeman PC.1773.3Green - Polk PC.1773.4Ross - Wicker According to Hoyle PC.1773.5 1946-1950 Newspaper Feature Articles

Ten scrapbooks filled with articles written by Mrs. Hoyle for the Smithfield Herald and mounted in rough chronological order. If the same article was published in other newspapers (usually the Raleigh Times and Greensboro Daily News) the later printings are filed with the original publication. A number of Smithfield and Johnston County natives and topics of purely local interest, such as the 4-H club, the public library and the volunteer firefighters, are represented- in the articles, but the majority of the topics, while local, have a greater than local interest. Examples are: the Nov. 25, 1945, and April 9, 1946, articles on moonshining; and the Oct. 20, 1946, article on World Federalists of North Carolina. Some topics recur year by year: school transportation (Sept. 26, 1946; Aug. 13, 1949); Farmers' Day (Aug. 15, 1946; Sept. 1947; Aug. 12-27, 1949); Ava Gardner's visits to her family at Smithfield (June 3-6, 1947; Jan. 9-14, 1949; and a premiere showing of one of her movies, Aug. 1, 1949); tobacco cultivation (Feb. 20, 1948; Aug. 1948; Jan. 14, 1949; May 10, 1949; May 14, 1949); tobacco marketing at Smithfield (Aug. 26, 1947; Aug. 19, 1949; April 7, 1950); cotton cultivation (Aug. 1945; Aug.-Sept. 1947; Oct. 1, 1948); taxidermy (Feb. 13, 1949; July 1950).

In addition to the articles on Ava Gardner several articles were devoted to outstanding persons and their work: Paul Byrd, the country and western singer (Aug. 1945) ; Dot and Ernie Lind, "The Shooting Linds" ((April 11, 1947) ; Edith Warren Huggins (March 14, 1946); Dr. W. G. Wilson, Jr. (Oct. 21, 1947) ; the astrologer Mohammed Ibrahim (Jan. 2, 1949) Lunette Barber (Nov. 18, 1947; Aug. 13, 1949) ; The Rev. Hiram K. King (Dec. 21, 1947) ; Hunter Johnson (Mar. 19, 1948; Sept. 8, 1949) ; Don Wharton (May 21, 1948); Dr. Levin Eli Kirkman (July 2, 1948); Lodwick Hartley (Aug. 1, 1948); James Street (Nov. 14, 1948; June 26, 1949); the Loughlin family of Henderson, N.C. (the Flying Costellos) (Oct. 3, 1948) ; Mrs. Kerr Scott (Apr. 9, 1949; Judge Susie Sharp (June 26, 1949; July 10, 1949; July 22, 1950); Barbara Bernard McGee (Aug. 7, 1949); and Nan Ogburn (June 10, 1950). Although her article on the World Federalists of North Carolina (Oct. 20, 1946) was not biographical in nature, Mrs. Hoyle included in it much information on R. Mayne Albright and Robert Lee Humber.

Mrs. Hoyle's interest in local institutions and their history is reflected in her Sept. 9-14, 1947, articles on the Pythian Home for Children at Clayton, N.C., and the Confederate monument at Smithfield (May 15, 1948) and especially her articles on Johnston County churches: Oakland Presbyterian Church (June 4, 1948); Vance Baptist Church (Sept. 25, 1948); Progressive Presbyterian Church at Princeton (Nov. 5, 1948); Mill Creek Christian Church (Feb. 18 and July 17, 1949); Elizabeth Methodist Church (Apr. 14, 1949); Liberty Christian Church (Apr. 24, 1949); and Forestville Baptist Church, Wake County (July 31, 1949).

Articles on the town of Four Oaks (Sept. 7 and 23, 1948) , the water mill owned by the Barber f amily (May 25, 1948), fish ponds in the county (Aug. 28, 1948), the Johnston County hospital (Aug. 27-Sept. 17, 1948); Blacksmiths (Nov. 25, 1947), German war brides (Dec. 14, 1947), mules (Aug. 17, 1948; May 23, 1949), the North Carolina State Forest Nursery (Sept. 13, 1948), the cultivation of cabbage plants for sale to farmers (Jan. 31, 1950); home nursing courses taught by the Red Cross (Feb. 21, 1950), candy making (Feb 15, 1949), centenarians (Oct. 8, 1947), circuses (Sept. 30, 1947), rural mail carriers (Dec. 13, 1947), school for tobacco calculators (Apr. 7, 1950), the breeding and sale of Shetland ponies (Aug. 12, 1949), and dog breeding (May 9, 1950) all reflect the scope of her articles and the reading interests of Mrs. Hoyle's audience. The murder trial of the locally prominent James Rufus Creech gave Mrs. Hoyle the opportunity to demonstrate her ability as a crime reporter and electrified her readers; this series of articles, written during July and August 1948, are in a special file in Box 8.

Articles of statewide interest published by Mrs. Hoyle include articles on the deleterious effect of comic books on children (July 23, 1948), the presidential visit to North Carolina of Harry S. Truman (Oct. 19-22, 1948), N.C. Federation of Womens' Clubs (Apr. 24, 1949); White Lake-, Bladen County (May 29, 1949); tornado at Newton Grove (May 27, 1949), the Little Symphony of the North Carolina Symphony (Feb. 17, 1950), and the revived performance of the outdoor drama, The Lost Colony (July 1-30, 1950).

PC.1773.61945-1948 PC.1773.71949-1950 Miscellaneous PC.1773.8 NC Board of Public Welfare

Articles and photographs by Mrs. Hoyle as public information officer for the department. Includes her annual report for the fiscal year 1964/5, a biographical sketch of Dr. Ellen Winston, a copy of the Congressional Record of Feb. 28, 1963 publishing, among other matter, Mrs. Hoyle's article on Dr. Winston upon her appointment as U.S. Commissioner of Welfare, and a tribute to Lucille B. (Mrs. W. B.) Aycock who retired from the N.C. Board of Public Welfare in April 1964.

Book Reviews Published, 1956-1957 Magazine Photographs Published, 1949-1969 James Rufus Creech Murder Trial, Johnston Co., 1948 Magazine Feature Articles Published, 1946-1970

Includes one published in Field and Stream under the name of her husband, Macy Hoyle.

Magazine Stories by James Street