With the help of our partners at Harnett County Public Library we are excited to announce that 7 yearbooks and over 75 years of records from the Tea and Topics Book Club are now available on DigitalNC. 3 new years of Footprints, Lillington High School’s annual yearbook, are included in this latest batch. Furthermore, with the addition of 4 years of the Sand Spur, Benhaven High School is now represented in DigitalNC’s vast yearbook collection. The Lillington Tea and Topics Book Club was founded by a group of twelve women in December of 1932, and has become a longstanding organization in the community since. Apart from organizing monthly meetings to discuss books, genres, and literary themes, the Tea and Topics Book Club has also played an important role in supporting local public libraries through regular book donations and fundraising efforts. Across five scrapbooks, the history of the Tea and Topics Book Club unfolds through handmade annual yearbooks, correspondence, photographs, bylaws, and newspaper clippings.
The scrapbooks from the Tea and Topics Book Club now available on DigitalNC are:
- The Tea and Topics Book Club [1937-1969]
- The Tea and Topics Book Club [1951-2001]
- The Tea and Topics Book Club [1970-1989]
- The Tea and Topics Book Club [1990-2004]
- The Tea and Topics Book Club [2005-2014]
More information about our partner, Harnett County Public Library, can be found on their website here.
Materials from the Harnett County Public Library are featured in the Talbott McNeill Stewart Photograph Collection exhibit, which can be found here.
More materials, including yearbooks, newspapers, scrapbooks, and photographs can be found on Harnett County Public Library’s contributor page, which is linked here.
