The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813122151)

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 histor

Author: Hunter James
ISBN-10: 0813122155
ISBN-13: 9780813122151
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2002
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.38w x 0.78d