Thanks to our partners at Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library in Southport, North Carolina, more issues of the State Port Pilot are now on DigitalNC. These eighteen issues stretch from 1992 to New Years Eve of 1999. They will join an existing collection of over twenty-five hundred issues already findable online at DigitalNC, stretching from 1935 to 1999.

The State Port Pilot was a weekly publication based out of Southport, North Carolina, that served Brunswick County with local news and events around coastal North Carolina. The issues included in this batch are beautiful encapsulations of small-town life in North Carolina, with each issue having sections titled “Not Exactly News,” ideas for cartoons without artists to draw them, and strongly opinionated letters to the editor. The standout issue of this new batch has to be the issue published on December 29, 1999, which reflects the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the looming millennium. Featured articles in this issue include reports on Y2K electronics monitoring, retrospectives on the past century of history, and a series titled “Focus

Interested in learning more about Southport History? You can find our partners at the Margaret and James Harper, Jr. Library in Southport online at DigitalNC here, or on their website here. Thanks again to our spectacular partners at the Harper Library for making this collection available!