Stories in Stone: Memories from a Bygone Farming Community in North Carolina
- ISBN-10
- 0983711909
- ISBN-13
- 9780983711902
- Series
- Stories in Stone
- Category
- North Carolina
- Pages
- 303
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-07-01
- Authors
- Thomas C. Weber, Uli Gratzl
Description
The scope of Stories in Stone stretches from the footsteps of Native American hunters centuries ago to a description of William B. Umstead State Park today. However, the main focus is on the oral history of the last generation of pre-Park area residents and of the people that built the Park. Their words narrate four mapped walks to former home sites and other traces of the community. The work of naturalists, folklorists, journalists, historians, photographers, and artists fill out the background of a place and its people.Stories in Stone preserves memories dating between 1870 and 1942 from the farming community that once lived in Wake County, North Carolina's William B. Umstead State Park. This nearly 6,000-acre Piedmont woodland lies between the cities of Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and Durham, which for the Research Triangle.
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