Books written by Jim Wise

Murder in the Courthouse: Reconstruction & Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont

... killing and other activity by the author during Reconstruction, North Carolina Historical Commission, 1919, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nccaswel/misc/confession.htm (accessed February 22, 2009); Trelease, White Terror, 212–13.
On Sherman's Trail: The Civil War's North Carolina Climax

We find the ornaments of our fair little hall shattered and ruined; our book shelves empty; the grove strewn with fragments of valuable precious volumes; the speeches and productions of members who are sleeping in silent graves, ...
Durham County

Erwin Mills became the focal point of West Durham , a factory community that grew to a population of 5,000 . Manager William Erwin built churches , parks , schools , and an auditorium for his employees . ( Courtesy Durham County Public ...
Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day that Was & More

At least, that was the contention of the late Louis Cole, who ought to know since he was born in that part of our town, the West Durham village around the Erwin cotton mill, in 1919, and grew up there and delivered groceries as a boy.
27 Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry

Around the same time, Dr. Charles Harris was also starting a new job in Durham. He and his colleague, Dr. Ira Smith, founded Harris and Smith Ob-Gyn, and my parents were two of their first clients. Dr. Harris delivered me at Durham ...
Dames at Sea: A Musical Comedy

It's like Fay Wray saying no to King Kong . MONA . ( In a rage at seeing RUBY . ) What , may I ask , is she doing here ? DICK . Ruby's in the show , Miss Kent . MONA . Not in my show , she isn't . Oh Kewpie - Doll ! I need you ! JOAN .
Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, The Plastic Cow, the Durham Day That Was & More

Journalist and local historian Jim Wise relates how Bull Durham smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map; how a plastic cow and an oversized flag cut the city council down to size; how it felt to travel back in time at the ...
Durham: A Bull City Story

From Durham, North Carolina's start in the tobacco and textile industries, the stories of the history and evolution of the Bull City are fascinating and sometimes unexpected. From the Cigarette...
Murder in the Courthouse: Reconstruction & Redemption in the North Carolina Piedmont

Follow this little-known tale from the murder, through the "Kirk-Holden War," through the courts and to the finale, when Holden became the United States' first governor impeached and removed from office.
Catfish

The moral of the story will hit home with today's concerns for the environment, big business and people growing up with the ultimate tragedy of a horrific Catfish attack.