The last days of the Big Grassy Fork /

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. Inte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: James, Hunter
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2002.
Temas:
Hunter, James.
Hunter family.
Hunter family
Farms > Conservation and restoration > North Carolina > Winston-Salem Region.
Landscape protection > North Carolina > Winston-Salem Region.
Agriculture and state > North Carolina > Winston-Salem Region.
Urbanization > North Carolina > Winston-Salem Region.
Journalists > North Carolina > Winston-Salem Region > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Agriculture and state
Economic history
Journalists
Landscape protection
Rural conditions
Urbanization
Winston-Salem Region (N.C.) > Biography.
Winston-Salem Region (N.C.) > Rural conditions.
Winston-Salem Region (N.C.) > Economic conditions.
North Carolina > Winston-Salem Region
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1. Coffin Nails, Lynch Mobs, and the Rebirth of a City; 2. House of Passage; 3. A Glass of the Finest; 4. Mister Will's Revenge; 5. Mama's Little Boy Lost; 6. My Debut as a Wine Snob; 7. Lord of the Manor; 8. My Introduction to the Sport of Kings; 9. The Old Ways Are Allus the Best
  • 10. Little People with Fur Coats; 11. The New Patriarchs; 12. Different in All Things from All People
  • 13. Birds of Omen, Birds of Prey; 14. The Last Agrarian; 15. The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork.

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