Looks at the history of general stores in North Carolina, providing a collection of photographs of the stores and interviews with their owners.
This book contains over 120 photographs of country stores located in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and West Virginia. Included are stories told to Connie Combs by Olga Combs, who owned Combs Grocery in Clay Holler, Kentucky.
These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The country store survives.
The Big Lynches River, lately identified as simply the Lynches River, rises just above the North Carolina state line and travels along most of ... Natural Curiosities Within each section of the county, natural oddities pique curiosity.
It lasted until 1780 and is claimed by both Iredell and Mecklenburg Counties as a historic site, marked by a rough boulder that once held a plaque for the 1760s Osborne home. The second school—named for Clio, the muse of history—was ...
Her answer seems to be that this is not only possible, but essential. This story shows how.
Historian Bruce D. Heald, PhD, chronicles New Hampshire's historic country stores and the keepers behind these unique local landmarks.
... sign appears to have been painted over an earlier sign . Albert Champion started out calling his spark plugs " Champion " and then was told he could not use that name as it was already taken ... Ghost Sign Busters Photo by Ghost Sign Busters.
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity.
North Carolina has a long history of being one of the leading producers of peanuts in the United States. Eastern North Carolina, in particular, has been and remains one of the leading producers of the large Virginia-type (cocktail) ...