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What happened to her? If you raise this question in Manteo on Roanoke Island at the edge of the Outer Banks, people will think you are asking about Virginia Dare. In 1587, she was the first English child born in North America. But John Railey’s new book, “The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland,” asks that same question about Holland. She was a 19-year-old mountain girl from Canton, a student at Campbell College, and a make-up artist working in the summer production of Paul Green’s outdoor drama, “The Lost Colony.” An e...

In 2002, Kevin Begos, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Washington correspondent, sent an email to Johanna Schoen, an academic researcher and an assistant women’s history professor at the University of Iowa about records she had pertaining to North Carolina’s eugenics program. In the email, Begos asked Schoen to give him access to those records, Schoen said. Schoen believes that Begos learned about the eugenics after she asked another North Carolina newspaper to do a story about the program. That paper refused, she said. “I was willing to give (Begos) access to anything he wante...

In 2002, Kevin Begos, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Washington correspondent, sent an email to Johanna Schoen, an academic researcher and an assistant women’s history professor at the University of Iowa about

Add another chapter to the epic Duke-Loyola postseason series.  With the game tied 9-9 and about :60 remaining in the first overtime period, Duke attackman Joe Robertson gathered the ball for his team’s second OT possession. He squared up Kyle LeBlanc, a Loyola defender who’d been injured since the Hounds’ game vs. Army on April 10, turned down a screen from Michael Sowers, got topside and sold out. Falling down, he put a sidearm shot into the ground. It bounced over Loyola goalie Sam Shafer’s left shoulder as his stick head dug into the ground. “I think when the game’s on the li...

High Point author John Railey has written a new book. The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks:  Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland tells the story of the 1967 death of Brenda Holland. She had gone to the coast to work on the long-running Lost Colony play when she went missing. Her body was found five days later. The case has never been solved. But through interviews and a trove of unearthed State Bureau of Investigation files, Railey thinks he knows who did it. He spoke with WFDD’s Paul Garber about the book. Railey begins with a description of the crime: