Writer of Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry and Master Photographer
By Michael K. Brantley There are many various stories about an Indian trading path that ran through the heart of Eastern North Carolina in the early 1700s. It is sometimes referred to as the Green Path or Green’s Path. Historians not only seem unable to agree on its exact location, but even disagree on the…
I’m pretty excited to have my first poems published. I had a group accepted for publication at a journal several years ago (Circa), but the journal ceased operations before they made onto the web and in print. You can view my poems here.
By Michael K. Brantley I couldn’t get everything about eastern North Carolina into the story that makes up my forthcoming book about the Civil War in the area (Spring 2020). The research trail could have gone on for another decade and been incomplete. One thing I’ve run across is information about the Confederate hospital in…
By Michael K. Brantley You may have heard an old folk or bluegrass song about “Poor Naomi Wise,” or it may have sounded like ‘Omi Wise or ‘Nomi Wise, but however it was put out, it was about the same lady — Naomi Wise, who was murdered in 1808 in Randolph County, North Carolina. Wise,…