North Carolina Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff

by Kent Priestley, Jon Elliston, Constance E. Richards (Editor)

Overview

The definitive collection of North Carolina's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for North Carolina residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762759958
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	04/12/2011
Series:	Curiosities Series
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	281,101
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jon Elliston is news editor of the Mountain Xpress, western North Carolina's most widely circulated independent weekly newspaper. He has won national awards from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Society of Professional Journalists for his investigative reporting in North Carolina. As a writing editor, Elliston continues to delve into little-known state and national history for several publications. He lives in Asheville.

Kent Priestley is a staff writer at the Mountain Xpress. His writing and photography have appeared in the North Carolina magazines Our State, North Carolina Boating Lifestyle, and Carolina Country. Priestly spends his free time playing traditional music, hunting wild mushrooms, and exploring the region's back roads. He lives in Asheville.


Constance E. Richards is a freelance writer, journalist, and interpreter based in Asheville, North Carolina. She has written for Time, the London Daily Telegraph, Sports Illustrated, Fortune,Conde Nast Traveler, and many other national and international newspapers and magazines.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii

Preface ix

Chapter 1 The Mountains 1

Chapter 2 The Piedmont 101

Chapter 3 The Coastal Plain 193

Chapter 4 The Tidewater 233

Index 282

About the Authors 290