Jackson Coker is 14 years old and has been going to a summer camp at the historic 1897 Poe House museum in Fayetteville since he was about half that age, he believes.
The old house has made an impression on the young man. He has published “Jackson’s Time Tangled Adventure,” a children’s book set in the house about a teen who puts a coin in a toy bank that magically transports him back to the 1890s. The book is available at City Center Gallery & Books on Hay Street downtown, as well as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
The idea for the story grew out of a N.C. history assignment in eighth grade, says Jackson, who is presently a freshman at Cumberland International Early College High School at Fayetteville State University. While the “Jackson” in the book is initially bored during his trip to the Poe House, not so for the real-life Jackson. He enjoys the camps he has attended at Poe, a 5,500-square-foot home that is part of the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex and located on Bradford Avenue…