The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.15 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813122155 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fighting Urban Sprawl A Customer This work should be of more than passing interest to those who more and more find themselves beset on every side by urban sprawl. The author sets out in many ways to preserve an old family homestead; but, more important, seeks ways to make the place profitable. His attempts are often hilarious, the more so when they fail, and they never lack meaning for others who share his feelings about the need for ways to protect ourselves from the m. "Fighting Urban Sprawl" according to A Customer. This work should be of more than passing interest to those who more and more find themselves beset on every side by urban sprawl. The author sets out in many ways to preserve an old family homestead; but, more important, seeks ways to make the place profitable. His attempts are often hilarious, the more so when they fail, and they never lack meaning for others who share his feelings about the need for ways to protect ourselves from the m
Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center.This personal history shows he is not the only James to have had a difficult time fitting in with the neighbors' idea of progress; his family's trouble in the Piedmont began early. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. He accidentally torches a neighbor's barn in an attempt to burn off his best pasture land, as was always done in the past; he squanders enormous amounts of money vainly trying to save his farm by becoming the piedmont's preeminent lord of the manor, vintner, wine snob, and horseman; and he finally seals his own doom when in alliance with his neighbors he inadvertently creates the "world's largest garbage pit."The book ends with an eloquent plea for a true agrarianism in the modern South, for the need to strike a balance between the call for industrial expansion and the desir
He lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of several books, including Smile Pretty and Say Jesus: The Last Great Days of PTL. . Hunter James has spent more than thirty-five years as an editorialist and correspondent for such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and the Baltimore Sun
"In peeling away his romantic illusions, James offers an endlessly entertaining account of his own ill-conceived endeavors and his rather unromantic but highly entertaining family history."North Carolina Literary Review"The authorpart Thoreau, part John Crow Ransom, part Wendell Berryis, perhaps more than any of them, Mark Twainor, more precisely, the self-deprecating, often hapless persona Twain often cultivated in his early autobiographical works."Southern Cultures