North Carolina in the 1950s
John F Blair Publisher (Verlag)
978-1-949467-92-5 (ISBN)
The book contains color vintage photographs and illustrations. The author—writer, professor, and musician, Philip Gerard—has published widely, including an iconic novel about the Wilmington coup of 1898, Cape Fear Rising, and is beloved in North Carolina, especially among Our State readers.
Philip Gerard was the author of five novels, eight works of nonfiction, and numerous essays on history, music, and writing craft, including an iconic novel about the Wilmington coup of 1898, Cape Fear Rising, and The Last Battleground: The Civil War Comes to North Carolina. Until his untimely passing in 2022, he taught in the BFA and MFA Programs of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he won a number of awards for teaching excellence. He was coeditor with his wife, Jill Gerard, of Chautauqua, the literary journal of the Chautauqua Institution and was a frequent and popular contributor to Our State magazine. Gerard was an avid musician and songwriter, a teacher and mentor, and a beloved member of the North Carolina writing community.
Introduction: The 1950s—The Decade in Motion
Fast Food and Flicks: At the Drive-In
Seabreeeze: Rythm and Beach Music
UNC on the Air
A Man and His Mountain
Justice in Black and White
Piedmont Airlines Takes Flight
Long Live the Lumbee
The Shape of Things To Come
The Art of the Impossible
The Squire of Haw River
Last Train Out
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2023 |
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Reihe/Serie | North Carolina through the Decades |
Zusatzinfo | Vintage color photographs and illustrations |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-949467-92-9 / 1949467929 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-949467-92-5 / 9781949467925 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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