Publishing

R.A Fountain has published six books and a CD. Two new titles, both e.books, are forthcoming in 2025: a photo book documenting dancers from the Silas Green from New Orleans vaudeville show, 1927-1945, and another photo book, Ghost Signs of East Carolina.

RAF also publishes two blogs: Donna Davis on regional music and musicians, and Jake Grant’s Letter from Snow Hill.

RAF’s latest book, 61 Citizens Terrorized by Kuklux in & near Alamance County, was published in July 2022, and is available at Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, at Fountain General Store in Fountain, and by mail order for $16.19 + $3 postage.

Request a review copy: alex@rafountain.com

R.A. Fountain is also distributor of more than 20 titles originally published by North Carolina Wesleyan College Press and individuals associated with that press.

Founded in 2010 by Alex Albright in the eastern North Carolina town of Fountain, RAF is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association.

RAF’s other titles

Emily Herring Wilson’s “When I Go Back to My Home Country”: A Remembrance of Archie Ammons (2019) and The Mule Poems of A.R. Ammons (2009) were publishing projects that evolved from The North Carolina Poems by A.R. Ammons, which Albright edited for NC Wesleyan College Press and, after it sold out and NC Wesleyan Press folded, for Broadstone Books. Both editions were designed by Jonathan Greene. Albright’s The Forgotten First: B-1 and the Integration of the Modern Navy (2013) was a finalist for the 2014 Montaigne Medal and received a Silver Medal for “Best Interior Design” from the Independent Book Publishers Association, and a Peace History Book Award from the NC Society of Historians. A companion CD includes the soundtrack to the 1947 Black cast musical comedy “Pitch a Boogie Woogie,” which was produced in Greenville, NC with a soundtrack performed by members of B-1 and other Black Navy band veterans, and a radio transcription from a Hawai’i radio station performance by one of B-1’s dance bands, the Moonglowers.

Two RAF-published titles are out of print: Ernest Guy Walden’s City Boys & Mountain Horses and Stephen A. Hill’s Behind the Names: Pitt County Schools.

Titles published & distributed by RAF are available at our brick & mortar store, R.A. Fountain, General Store, at 6754 E. Wilson St. in downtown Fountain, or from RAF’s secure store.