Chris Barber

Chris (Christine) Barber, is a North Carolina author who writes about local history. Her newest book, "When Ghosts Made Moonshine: Prohibition in the Albemarle," provides insight into the complications of enforcing Prohibition in a rural and remote area where much liquor was transported by both boat and automobile, some of it along the Atlantic seaboard to Norfolk, Virginia and beyond.

Her previous book, "The Tie That Binds: Rehoboth Methodist Church and 300 Years of Worship Along the South Shore of the Albemarle Sound" profiles the evolution of faith in the first century and a half of the "Carolana" colony. It also documents the preservation and support of the church since it ceased to have an active congregation in 1970.