Photographs can bring history to life and help us to make connections
between the past and our daily
lives. With Johnston County, authors Todd Johnson and Durwood Barbour
have created a work that truly
teaches us and guides us from the past of this area into the new
millennium. In this exciting new work, every one of the county's
seventeen townships has been covered, with rare images dating primarily
from the turn of the century to 1945. Mostly candid shots of people who
have influenced Johnston's social, cultural, and economic development,
these images bring us to a time when the pace of life was slower. Other,
more well-known citizens we meet include film star Ava Gardner and
Lunsford Richardson, inventor of Vick's VapoRub. Also featured in this
book are images of important events, like the highly publicized,
catastrophic munitions truck explosion near Selma in 1942.