The American "who went up a hill and called it a mountain."
Cardigan Bay, Wales, February, 2001
W. Frank Ainsley
Professor of Geography, UNCW,
(since1973)
A.B. in Biblical Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1966
Master of Divinity, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1969
M.A. in Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972
Ph.D. in Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977
Telephone 910-962-3493
E-mail: ainsleyf@uncwil.edu
Dr. Ainsley is a cultural-historical geographer whose interests include rural settlement landscapes; ethnic landscapes; religious landscapes; historic preservation; and vernacular architecture. Regional interests are Southeastern United States, Colorado Plateau, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the Caribbean Islands (Barbados). Research projects include chattel houses and settlements in Barbados; tourism images and perceptions of Barbados; rural settlement patterns in Norway and Wales; and immigrant farm colonies in southeastern North Carolina. He is also the secretary-treasurer of the Pioneer America Society, an organization of geographers, historians, and folklife specialists who study material culture and vernacular landscapes.
Ainsley, W. Frank, The Historic Architecture of Warsaw, North Carolina. (Warsaw, N.C.: The Warsaw Garden Club, 1983). 71 pages
Ainsley, W. Frank, "Own a Home in North Carolina: Image and Reality in Ethnic European Farm Colonies," Journal of Cultural
Geography, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1985, pp. 61-69.
Ainsley, W. Frank. "Pulsating Patterns of Land Occupancy in the Rural South: The Impact of Farm Colony Development,
P.A.S.T. -- Pioneer America Society Transactions, Vol. X, 1987, pp. 43-53.
Ainsley, W. Frank, and Florin, J. W. North Carolina: The Land and Its People, Silver Burdett & Ginn Company, Morristown, New Jersey,
1988, 392 pp.
Ainsley, W. Frank. Front Porches: Front Parlors: The Historic Architecture of Faison, North Carolina. (Faison, N.C.: Faison Museum
Committee and the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1994), 102 pp.
Ainsley, W. Frank, Elbow, G., and Greenow, L. World Geography, Silver Burdett & Ginn Company, Morristown, New Jersey, 1995, 754
pp.
Ainsley, W. F., Elbow, G., and Ludwig, G. Comparing Regions, Silver Burdett
Ginn, Parsippany, New Jersey , 1996, 424 pp.
Ainsley, W. F., "From Europe to North Carolina: Ethnic Farm Settlements in the Carolinas," Snapshots of the Carolinas, special publication of the
1996 AAG Annual Meeting in Charlotte, N.C.
Ainsley, W. F., "Evolution of the Chattel House: Folk Housing of Barbados,"
P.A.S.T.--Pioneer America Society Transactions, 1996, Vol. XIX, 35-44.
Ainsley, W. F. and Rouse, P. Virginia USA, Silver Burdett Ginn, Parsippany, New Jersey, 1997, 394 pp.
Ainsley, W. F., Jones,B., and Link, W. North Carolina USA, Silver Burdett
Ginn, Parsippany, New Jersey, 1998, 424 pp.
Ainsley, W. F., Elbow, G., and Greenow, L. World Geography, Silver Burdett
Ginn, Parsippany, New Jersey, 1998, 754 pp.
Ainsley, W. Frank, "North Carolina," Microsoft Encarta 2000 Encyclopedia, Deluxe Edition, (CD-Rom) Microsoft Corp., 2000, 54 pp.
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