
Naomi "e;Omie"e; Wise
Naomi "Omie" Wise was drowned by her lover in the waters of North Carolina''s Deep River in 1807, and her murder has been remembered in ballad and story for well over two centuries. Mistakes, romanticization and misremembering have been injected into Naomi''s biography over time, blurring the line between reality and fiction. The authors of this book, whose family has lived in the Deep River ar...
Naomi "Omie" Wise was drowned by her lover in the waters of North Carolina''s Deep River in 1807, and her murder has been remembered in ballad and story for well over two centuries. Mistakes, romanticization and misremembering have been injected into Naomi''s biography over time, blurring the line between reality and fiction. The authors of this book, whose family has lived in the Deep River ar...