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Last Days Of The Big Grassy Fork
Hunter James
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Description for Last Days Of The Big Grassy Fork
Hardback. Interweaving current affairs and family history, the author details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a centre of Moravian piety and as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing centre, while trying to save his family farm. The book ends with a plea for true agrarianism in the modern South. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; BGA; TV; WQY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center.
This personal history shows he is not the only James to have had a difficult time fitting in with the neighbors' idea of progress; his family's trouble in the ... Read more
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center.
This personal history shows he is not the only James to have had a difficult time fitting in with the neighbors' idea of progress; his family's trouble in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813122151
SKU
V9780813122151
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-37
About Hunter James
Hunter James has spent more than thirty-five years as an editorialist and correspondent for such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and the Baltimore Sun. He is the author of several books, including Smile Pretty and Say Jesus: The Last Great Days of PTL. He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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