The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork

By Hunter James

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122155
• ISBN13: 9780813122151
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher