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North Carolina State Fair History
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Author :Melton Alonza McLaurin Publisher :North Carolina Division of Archives & History ISBN 13 :9780865263079 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (63 download)
Book Synopsis The North Carolina State Fair by : Melton Alonza McLaurin
Download or read book The North Carolina State Fair written by Melton Alonza McLaurin and published by North Carolina Division of Archives & History. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an annual attendance of 800,000, the North Carolina State Fair is the state's largest event and is the largest ten-day agricultural fair in the United States. Published jointly with the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, this volume is the most comprehensive account of the people, politics, and events that have shaped the annual autumn event. Over three hundred photographs, many in full color, vividly portray the fair's history.
Book Synopsis From Congregation Town to Industrial City by : Michael Shirley
Download or read book From Congregation Town to Industrial City written by Michael Shirley and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fine addition to the study of urbanization. . . . (Michael) Shirley's book will appeal not only to a regional audience in the South but also to all students of the diverse American experience".--AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW. "Compelling. . . . (an) important contribution to our understanding of the modernizing of America".--JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY. 17 illustrations.
Book Synopsis Meet Me at the Rocket by : Rodger E. Stroup
Download or read book Meet Me at the Rocket written by Rodger E. Stroup and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who doesn't love the bustle and jangle, the smells, the sounds, the energy, and the tastes of a lively state fair? In this fast-changing world, keeping any endeavor alive and thriving for 150 years is an accomplishment, but the South Carolina State Fair has met any challenges with doggedness, determination, and flair. In the early 1700s South Carolinians were gathering to exchange information about crops and livestock, and small rural fairs were held, enhanced by horse racing, raffles, and other diversions to draw in the populace. The State Agricultural Society of South Carolina was founded in 1839 and held its first annual fair and stock show in November of the following year. In 1869 the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina was founded to revive the fair and has presented a fair in every year except 1918. The South Carolina State Fair has a long and storied history from those early days to its current "meet me at the rocket" days. Those initial fair goers would have been astonished to see the rocket, a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile, greeting them as they arrived on the grounds. The long story of the fair is inextricably bound to the history of South Carolina, of course, and indeed the history of the United States. Stroup ably weaves many strands together through archival records, newspaper reports, anecdotes (have you heard about the "Schara-mouche-Dance by a person from London?") and vintage artifacts, illustrations, paintings, and photographs from the fair's inception to the present. The fair has been an admixture of serious agricultural and animal husbandry and pure entertainment—the scandalous as well as the wholesome, and Stroup investigates them all, from the "Colored State Fair" to the infamous "girlie shows" to the prizes won for livestock—and touches on characters as diverse as Preston Brooks and Seabiscuit. As lively and entertaining as a state fair itself, Meet Me at the Rocket is as thorough a history of an important state institution as can be found. Buy a cotton candy, visit the exhibits, ride the merry-go-round, and enjoy this singular exploration of South Carolina's agriculture and industry, its science and art and history. A foreword is provided by Walter Edgar, the Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of South Carolina: A History, editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia, and host of the radio program Walter Edgar's Journal.
Book Synopsis Nutshell History of North Carolina, A by : Ben Fortson
Download or read book Nutshell History of North Carolina, A written by Ben Fortson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its dubious beginnings as a pirate-filled colony to a popular tourist destination, North Carolina has an amazingly colorful history. Author and illustrator Ben Fortson presents that history in the form of off-the-wall anecdotes, poignant insights and sublimely silly illustrations. Take a hilarious look at Daniel Boone's larger-than-life Carolina personality. Peruse an uproarious account of the Andrew Jackson birthplace controversy or politically astute commentary on the power of tobacco in the state. Fortson takes readers on a side-splitting and educational ride through the annals of Tar Heel State history.
Book Synopsis Step It Up and Go by : David Menconi
Download or read book Step It Up and Go written by David Menconi and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state's music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina's Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball. Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina's sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.
Download or read book Gastonia 1929 written by John A. Salmond and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the wave of labor strikes that swept through the South in 1929, the one at the Loray Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, is perhaps the best remembered. In Gastonia 1929 John Salmond provides the first detailed account of the complex events surrounding the strike at the largest textile mill in the Southeast. His compelling narrative unravels the confusing story of the shooting of the town's police chief, the trials of the alleged killers, the unsolved murder of striker Ella May Wiggins, and the strike leaders' conviction and subsequent flight to the Soviet Union. Describing the intensifying climate of violence in the region, Salmond presents the strike within the context of the southern vigilante tradition and as an important chapter in American economic and labor history in the years after World War I. He draws particular attention to the crucial role played by women as both supporters and leaders of the strike, and he highlights the importance of race and class issues in the unfolding of events.
Book Synopsis History of the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs, 1901-1925 by : Sallie Southall Cotten
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Book Synopsis The North Carolina Historical Review by :
Download or read book The North Carolina Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina by : John H. Haley
Download or read book Charles N. Hunter and Race Relations in North Carolina written by John H. Haley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As public school teacher, journalist, and historian, Hunter devoted his long life to improving opportunities for blacks. A political activist, but never a radical, he skillfully used his journalistic abilities and his personal contacts with whites to publicize the problems and progress of his race. He urged blacks to ally themselves with the best of the white leaders, and he constantly reminded whites that their treatment of his race ran counter to their professed religious beliefs and the basic tenets of the American liberal tradition. By carefully balancing his efforts, Hunter helped to establish a spirit of passive protest against racial injustice. John Haley's compelling book, largely based on Hunter's voluminous papers, affords a unique opportunity to view race relations in North Carolina through the eyes of a black man. It also provides the first continuous survey of the black experience in the state from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression, an account that critiques the belief that race relations were better in North Carolina than in other southern states.
Book Synopsis Young People's History of North Carolina by : Daniel Harvey Hill
Download or read book Young People's History of North Carolina written by Daniel Harvey Hill and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis North Carolina and Its Resources by : North Carolina. Board of Agriculture
Download or read book North Carolina and Its Resources written by North Carolina. Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tenth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission by : North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History
Download or read book Tenth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Historical Commission written by North Carolina. State Department of Archives and History and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The People’s Welfare by : William J. Novak
Download or read book The People’s Welfare written by William J. Novak and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.
Book Synopsis Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission by : North Carolina. Secretary of State
Download or read book Manual of North Carolina Issued by the North Carolina Historical Commission written by North Carolina. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fun with the Family North Carolina by : James L. Hoffman
Download or read book Fun with the Family North Carolina written by James L. Hoffman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a parent for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family North Carolina leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and much more. The whole family will enjoy… Riding the rails and taking in the sights aboard a steam locomotive on the Great Smoky Mountain Railway Getting wet on Sliding Rock, a 150-foot natural waterslide, and exploring the waterfalls at Pisgah National Forest Celebrating the holiday spirit in McAdenville, better known as Christmastown USA, where every December the small community shines bright with more than 350,000 Christmas lights Traveling the world and getting wild at the many exhibits at the North Carolina Zoo, one of the largest walk-through zoos on the planet
Book Synopsis A History of North Carolina Wine by : Alexia Jones Helsley
Download or read book A History of North Carolina Wine written by Alexia Jones Helsley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey through the long and exciting history of North Carolina grapes and vines. The state's native grapes grew with a wild abandon that uniformly impressed early explorers. Wine production, however, is another story--one with peaks and valleys and switchbacks. Alexia Jones Helsley recounts a tale of promise that was long unfulfilled, of disappointments and success and of competing visions and grapes. These pages speak to those intrigued by the romance of the native muscadines, appreciative of the complex varieties of North Carolina wine and fascinated by the enduring drama of human beings and their dreams. In the Old North State, the highly acclaimed vineyards of today have deep roots in the state's past.
Download or read book Tar Heel Traveler written by Scott Mason and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blend of oral history and memoir with a good dose of quirky humor, Tar Heel Traveler: New Journeys Across North Carolina is a celebratory look at the people and places of North Carolina. WRAL-TV reporter Scott Mason—the Tar Heel Traveler—profiles colorful characters and out-of-the-way places. The sequel consists of all new material and showcases twenty-five of Mason’s most memorable television stories along with the amusing stories behind each.
