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0 <br /> O <br /> I � <br /> too—to the researchers, and even produced deeds and other records to substantiate dating <br /> and agency. This outpouring of goodwill was galvanizing and inspiring to the committee, o <br /> effectively turning the project into a joint venture,a palpable form of active engagement with m <br /> 0 <br /> the community. <br /> Other felicitous forms of collaboration developed among the twelve Hidden Hills- m <br /> borough Committee members themselves, who naturally came from diverse backgrounds M <br /> and training. The immense talents of two in particular must be mentioned here.Elizabeth D <br /> Matheson, a widely published and admired photographer, volunteered on the first day to T <br /> do the photography for the project. Just like that! Soon after, Stewart Dunaway, who had D <br /> recently completed the first of his books, Hillsborough, NC History of the Town Lots, came on <br /> Ln <br /> board as our historian-mapmaker.Working as a team,committee members thus correlated w <br /> rn <br /> their individual essay subjects with the needed documentation in the form of maps and o <br /> photographs of the town. <br /> The committee met monthly around the conference table in the Cooke-Lawrence Room o <br /> at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, a peaceful and serious setting, with afternoon light <br /> streaming across the table through the ancient trees in the adjoining cemetery. The meet- <br /> ings generated their own energy as the volunteers brainstormed and problem-solved while <br /> individually pursuing their own chosen essay topics. Categories were shuffled and redefined <br /> as the project clarified in its scope, structure, and purpose, and gradually took shape as a <br /> publication that might serve the community in a number of ways. The distinct voices and <br /> interests of individual authors are evident within the collaborative process. <br /> i <br /> SEVERAL OTHER BOOKS with similar goals served as models along the way:John Allen's <br /> I <br /> Uncommon Vernacular: The Early Houses of Jfferson County, West Virginia was a lofty example of <br /> expert photo-documentation of an historic landscape.John Michael Vlach's Back of the Big <br /> House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery was of particular value for its treatment of dependen- <br /> cies as separate categories of buildings worthy of interpretation. <br /> Eno Publishers' 27 Views of Hillsborough, with its forays into the exceptional literary <br /> resources of the town,offers a complimentary perspective to this book in its evocative stories <br /> and fascinating rambles penned by local authors.Hidden Hillsborough,however,offers glimpses <br /> and insights into the quirky physical makeup of the town with its disproportionately large <br /> number of secondary buildings, seemingly untouched by time, views captured in literary <br /> I <br /> PREFACE XXV <br /> i <br /> I <br />