| Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day That Was & More Contributor(s): Wise, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 1596295880 ISBN-13: 9781596295889 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within these pages. 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 Duke Homestead; and how sportsman Al Mann and Mom Ruby Planck left indelible marks on their hometown. Durham's stories are its own, but in them readers may find people, places and truths that resonate with hometowns everywhere. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Historical - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) |
| Dewey: 975.656 |
| LCCN: 2008040208 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.60 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: Run into the history of the Bull City There is much history in the Bull City, and some of it can be found within these pages. How Bull Durham smoking tobacco put Durham, North Carolina, on the map. How a plastic cow and an oversized f |
Contributor Bio(s): Wise, Jim: - Born in Georgia, raised in Florida and resident of North Carolina since 1966, Jim Wise is an alumnus of Duke University (BA, English) and the University of North Carolina (MA, folklore). He has been a reporter, editor and/or columnist for newspapers in Durham, North Carolina, for more than twenty-eight years and has taught adult classes on local and Southern history for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke. His previous History Press books are On Sherman's Trail: The Civil War's North Carolina Climax and Durham Tales: The Morris Street Maple, the Plastic Cow, the Durham Day that Was and More. He and his wife, Babs, live in Durham with an aging dog and cat. |