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"Susan Block might just possibly be the best cutline
writer in the American South." - Ben Steelman, Star
News book critic, on "Let's Read," UNC-W TV.
"Susan Taylor Block has a gift for grafting personality
and place into a unique, revealing history." - Walter
E. Campbell, PhD, award-winning filmmaker, author, historian.
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Sit Right Here Beside Me
"Susan Taylor Block has turned her pen to poetry. The slender
volume, entitled Sit Right Here Beside Me, is serendipitous
- as in an attitude for making fortunate discoveries. Like a
light shining over dark water picks up the iridescence from
waves, Susan’s verse sparkles with revelation of the diminutiveness
that shows how significant details really are.She writes about
every day situations experienced by many of us. Yet Susan expresses
these mundane things in a slightly different way." —
Blonnie Bunn Wyche, Encore Magazine |
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Cape Fear Beaches
"A sweeping tale of Carolina Beach and Wrightsville Beach,
as well as neighboring African American communities. Cape
Fear Beaches is enriched with century-old photographs, oral
histories of trolley car days, and the memories of people like
George Evans, son of famed artist Minnie Evans." —
Elaine Henson, Carolina Beach historian. |
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Cape Fear Lost
"While Susan Taylor Block’s book Cape Fear Lost
is aptly titled, she has done a superb job of at least pictorially
salvaging much of the architectural heritage that has vanished
from Wilmington and its environs. She skillfully has selected
and annotated about 180 photographs and drawings depicting structures
that are physically removed from the landscape but are visually
preserved in this volume." — The North Carolina
Historical Review |
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Van Eeden
"I would like to thank you for sharing that piece of history
I never knew." — Elie Wiesel, Boston University
(August 9, 1996) |
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"In this wonderfully researched,
beautifully illustrated, and surprisingly entertaining volume,
author Susan Taylor Block tells of the many leading lights of
political, religious, and artistic life whose stories are intertwined
with that of St. James Church." — Matthew Brown,
N. C. Historical Review |
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Tales of a Shirtmaker
The hard-working Block family of Wilmington built a legacy
with their manufacturing company, Block Shirts. Fred Block,
grandson of the firm's founder, describes growing up in his
close-knit, middle-class Jewish family, his years of military
service, and going to work for Block Industries, where he
eventually became chief executive officer. — Catherine
Harden, Our State Magazine
Following the injunction to “record and remember,”
Frederick L. and Susan Taylor Block have produced a moving
narrative of a Jewish boy growing up in Wilmington, North
Carolina, and assuming the reins of his family’s textile
business. In Tales of a Shirtmaker the ordinary rings
true and eloquent. Fred Block’s engaging, humorous, and
candid account, conscientiously edited by his wife Susan Block
and richly illustrated with historic photographs, is oral
history at its evocative best. — Dale Rosengarten,
curator, Jewish Heritage Collection, College of Charleston
Tales of a Shirtmaker is a fascinating history of
one of North Carolina's most prominent Jewish families and
their business. The story is told by Fred Block, the hard-working
visionary, who was the last family member to head Block Industries,
an equal opportunity employer of thousands, and a producer
of untold millions of shirts. — Herbert Zimmer, Wilmington
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