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Remembering North Carolina Tobacco - Billy Yeargin

Remembering North Carolina Tobacco - Billy Yeargin

North Carolina s tobacco history comes alive in this selection of remembrances from Billy Yeargin and others born and bred in the American tobacco culture. When early settlers struggled to grow anything at all in North Carolina s sandy soil, tobacco was a boon. The lives of many North Carolinians continue to revolve around the growth cycle of the tobacco plant, from laying-by to cropping and curing. In this collection of nostalgic memories, Yeargin and others reminisce about the frustrations of slugs..

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Confederate Generals of North Carolina: Tar Heels in Command - Joe A. Mobley

Confederate Generals of North Carolina: Tar Heels in Command - Joe A. Mobley

Confederate Generals of North Carolina provides a brief but compelling biography of each of the forty-eight Confederate Generals who served from North Carolina during the Civil War. Each biography includes in addition to the war service a summary of a general's prewar and postwar careers. Author Joe Mobley (editor of the North Carolina Historical Review) also discusses the generals collectively: how many were killed or wounded, who attended West Point before the war, who achieved the highest levels..

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Carolina Crimes: Case Files of a Forensic Photographer - Rita Y. Shuler

Carolina Crimes: Case Files of a Forensic Photographer - Rita Y. Shuler

In this intense insider's study of murder in South Carolina, Lt. Rita Y. Shuler leads us through the dark twists and turns of twelve homicide cases that gripped the state during her career as a forensic photographer with South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). Shuler's fascination with the criminal mind began with her exposure as a young girl to a 1953 double-homicide that shocked South Carolina. When she came face to face with the original case records twenty-four years later on her first..

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Forgotten Tales of North Carolina - Tom Painter

Forgotten Tales of North Carolina - Tom Painter

What comes to mind when you think of North Carolina history? Is it Sir Walter Raleigh, Guilford Courthouse and the Wright Brothers? Or do you think of sea monsters, drunken geese, hitchhiking alligators and a boy with \America\ spelled out in his eyes? Throughout its 350-year past, North Carolina has been the site of a vast number of famous historical events. But the history of the Tar Heel State doesn't stop there. Just beyond what's well-known, written about and taught lies a second history,..

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Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry - Talmadge Johnson

Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry - Talmadge Johnson

With a history that stretches back to the earliest years of America, it comes as little surprise that the Upstate region of South Carolina is home to many ghosts and to hundreds of intriguing legends. In Ghosts of the South Carolina Upcountry, librarian and folklorist Tally Johnson introduces us to some of the area's most colorful specters, from Major Ferguson, a British officer in the Revolutionary War who still haunts the grounds of his last battle at Kings Mountain, to the Hound of Goshen, a demon..

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North Carolina Triad Beer - A History - Richard Cox

North Carolina Triad Beer - A History - Richard Cox

Now centered on Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, the Triad was home to one of North Carolina''s earliest brewery operations in the Moravian community of Bethabara. Easy access by rail and then highways attracted national breweries, and starting in the 1960s, the region began producing beer for companies like Miller and Schlitz. The passage of the Pop the Cap legislation led to an explosion of craft beer and brewpubs, and in 2019, three of the top five producing craft breweries in North Carolina..

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1895 Segregation Fight in South Carolina - Damon L. Fordham

1895 Segregation Fight in South Carolina - Damon L. Fordham

Six Against the StateIn 1895, Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina attempted to solidify his political power. He proposed to rewrite the South Carolina Constitution to deny African Americans their constitutional rights and make racial segregation the law of the state. Six Black leaders--Robert Anderson, Isaiah Reed, Robert Smalls, William J. Whipper, James Wigg and Thomas E. Miller--went to the state capitol in the face of insult and ridicule to make an eloquent stand against these developments...

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Wilkes County, North Carolina: A Brief History - Jennifer L. Peña

Wilkes County, North Carolina: A Brief History - Jennifer L. Peña

What do NASCAR, Tom Dula and Lowe s Home Improvement have in common? They all came from Wilkes County, North Carolina. The foothills of Wilkes County are a region of unsurpassed beauty and captivating history. Cradled by the Blue Ridge and watered by the Yadkin River, the county has faced the Revolution and Civil War, cheered on moonshiner and revenuer alike and struggled mightily to become the North Carolina jewel it is today. Join local historians Jennifer Pena andLaurie Hayes as they tell the..

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North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry: The Flying Cashier - Jennifer Bean Bower

North Carolina Aviatrix Viola Gentry: The Flying Cashier - Jennifer Bean Bower

Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924 and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's solo endurance flight record. She became the first federally licensed female pilot from North Carolina that same year. She was a national celebrity, and her job in a New York restaurant secured her the..

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A Popular History of Western North Carolina: Mountains, Heroes & Hootnoggers - Rob Neufeld

A Popular History of Western North Carolina: Mountains, Heroes & Hootnoggers - Rob Neufeld

For those who visit and those who make the region their home, there is something captivating about the mountains of Western North Carolina. These ancient hills have cradled a culture that encompasses Cherokee heritage, pioneer legacies and urban visions. With a warm, accessible style, longtime Asheville Citizen-Times writer Rob Neufeld offers an exploration of Western North Carolina s history through the stories of its people. We meet Lillian Exum Clement, the first female legislator in the South;..

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North Carolina Tobacco - Billy Yeargin

North Carolina Tobacco - Billy Yeargin

The days when rural life revolved around tobacco planting and harvest are gone, but many fondly remember when North Carolina was the state of farming, planting and picking tobacco. In this book, historian Billy Yeargin takes readers back to the days when communities were founded and built upon tobacco culture, and when traditions developed as industries were born. Yeargin recounts the deeply intriguing influence of tobacco on the history and culture of the state.

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North Carolina String Music Masters: Old-Time and Bluegrass Legends - Elizabeth A. Carlson

North Carolina String Music Masters: Old-Time and Bluegrass Legends - Elizabeth A. Carlson

The roots of American music are deeply grounded in North Carolina s music history. North Carolina musicians pioneered and mastered the genres of old-time and bluegrass music. Doc Watson played mountain fiddle tunes on guitar. He emerged as the father of flatpicking and forever changed the role of the guitar in American music. Charlie Poole created techniques that eventually defined bluegrass, and folks around the state heard his banjo on some of the most important old-time recordings. Rising star..

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