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
Summary
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' ide
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