THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL THE COLLECTION OF NORTH CAROLINIANA PRESENTED BY North Caroliniana Society C906 N87s no. 26 FOR USE ONLY IN THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION Form No. A-368, Rev. 8/95 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://archive.org/details/sixtyyearswithca26mort Sixty Years with a Camera by Hugh M. Morton Together with Tributes to Hugh Morton by Edward L. Rankin, Jr., William C. Friday, and Charles Kuralt on the Occasion ofHis Acceptance ofthe North Caroliniana Society Awardfor 1996 >> NORTH CAROLINIANA SOCIETY IMPRINTS H. G. Jones, General Editor No. 1. An nticello: An Essay in / 1978) by EdwinM. Gill No. 2. ThePaul Green IKnow (1978) by Elizabeth Lay Green No. 3. TheAlbert CoatesIKnow'(1979) by Gladys Hall Coates No. 4. The Sam Ervin IKnow (1980) byJean Conyers Ervin No. 5. Sam Ragan (1981) by Neil Morgan No. 6. Thomas Wolfe ofNorth Carolina (1982) edited by H. G. 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Friday, and Charles Kuralt on the Occasion ofHis Acceptance ofthe North Caroliniana Society Awardfor 1996 ^£D Chapel Hill 27514-8890 North Caroliniana Society, Inc. and North Carolina Collection 1996 NORTH CAROLINIANA SOCIETYIMPRINTS NUMBER 26 This edition is limited to five hundred signed copies ofwhich this is number A1 Copyright 1996 by North Caroliniana Society, Inc. UNC Campus Box 3930 ChapelHill, North Carolina 27514-8890 All rights reserved Manufactured in the UnitedStates ofAmerica Contents PARTI Sixty Years with a Camera, by Hugh M. Morton 1 PART II Opening Remarks and Introductions, by H. G. Jones 27 A Tribute to Hugh Morton, by Edward L. Rankin, Jr 31 A Tribute to Hugh Morton, by William C. Friday 33 A Tribute to Hugh Morton, by Charles Kuralt 35 Presentation ofthe Award, by Willis P. Whichard 42 Acceptance ofthe Award, by Hugh MacRae Morton 43 Photographs ofthe Occasion, by Jerry W. Cotten and Keith Longiotti 45 . Preface At a reception and banquet in the Carolina Inn on 7 June 1996, Hugh MacRae Morton acceptedthe 1996 North CarolinianaSociety Award for contributions to and preservation ofNorth Carolina's history, culture, and resources. Nearly three hundred friends and admirers joined the Morton family to congratulate him and to express their gratitude for his lifetime of service to North Carolina. Again demonstrating his generosity in sharing his fascination with his nativestate, its history, culture, and resources, Morton visually surveyed his more than sixty years in photography at a public slide presentation in the afternoon in Carroll Hall. From his tens of thousands of images recorded since he snapped his first picture at age 13, he selected just 80 (75 of which are published in the following pages). The Society is acutely aware that Hugh Morton's marvelous photographs will not be done justice when they are reduced to black-and- white postage-stamp sizes required in this publication. However, to the extent possible the photographer's original cropping has been preserved (thus accounting forthe varying sizes and shapes ofthe reproductions), for the artistry of a photograph often is determined by what it shows (and from what angle) as much as in its technical quality. Much greater justice is done to 400 of Hugh Morton's pictures in his and Edward L. Rankin, Jr.'s mammoth volume, Making a Difference in North Carolina (Raleigh: Lightworks, 1988). The real justice, however, can be seen only in his mammoth photographic archives—a genuine image treasury of North Carolina people, places, and events for the past six — decades which he plans to have preserved by the North Carolina Collection. Eventually, that is, because Hugh Morton at 75 is not thinking of retiring. As Charles Kuralt says in his tribute on page 41, ". . . if there are any signs that Hugh Morton is slowing down, his friends have not noticed ... he just goes on and on. There are ideas that he hasn't thought of yet. But he will think of them. We will all know when he does. He will send us photographs." The North Caroliniana Society is pleased that Hugh Morton shared some of his visual memory with its members and guests, and the Society is happy to issue this little publication so that others may be reminded of a career dedicated to the promotion of interest in and the preservation of twentieth-century North Carolina.