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Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont

In Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont, historians Tom Hanchett and Ryan Sumner have adapted their award-winning exhibit, "Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South," into an insightful collection of photographs that allows readers to interpret the history of the Charlotte region not as a sequence of events, but as a rich tapestry of diverse experiences. Through a multitude of voices and perspectives, the book presents an engaging and intimate history, highlighting both ordinary and extraordinary people's stories that reflect the experience of the Charlotte region. Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont depicts the African-American experience from Emancipation to Civil Rights, the changing roles of southern women, the causes and consequences of industrialization, and the evolving character of life in the urban and rural South.

The Descendants of Thomas Hanchett
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

The Descendants of Thomas Hanchett

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Descendants of immigrant Thomas Hanchett of Suffolk Connecticut in late 1600's.

The English Ancestry of Thomas Hanchett Puritan Settler of Connecticut
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The English Ancestry of Thomas Hanchett Puritan Settler of Connecticut

A study of the possible English Ancestry of Thomas Hanchett who first resided in this country at Wethersfield, Connecticut. The family is traced back to the Domesday Book compiled by King William's scribes in 1086. This work represents the cumulative work of many historians and genealogist covering over 100 years of research.

Cornbread Nation 4
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Cornbread Nation 4

A colorful celebration of Southern foods, Southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them gathers the best of food writing from magazines, newspapers, books, and journals, with contributions by Rick Bragg, Molly O'Neill, Edna Lewis, Jim Ferguson, Amy Evans, Pat Conroy, Candice Dyer, and many others. Original.

Design First
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Design First

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of urban design and physical place-making to planning problems. Design First uses case studies from the authors’ own professional projects to demonstrate how theory can be turned into effective practice, using concepts of traditional urban form to resolve contemporary planning and design issues in American communities. The book is aimed at architects, planners, developers, planning commissioners, elected officials and citizens -- and, importantly, students of architecture and planning -- with the objective of reintegrating three-dimensional design firmly back into planning practice.

The Larder
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 399

The Larder

"This edited collection presents articles in southern food studies by a range of writers, from established scholars like Psyche Williams-Forson to emerging scholars like Rien Fertel. All are chosen for a combination of accessible writing and solid scholarship and offer stories and historical details that add to our understanding of the complexities of southern food and foodways. The editors have chosen to organize the collection by methodology in part in order to escape what reader Belasco calls "the tradition-inventing, nostalgic approach of so many books about regional foodways." They also aim to advance the field by presenting articles that represent a range of tools and methodologies from disciplines such as history, geography, social sciences, American studies, gender studies, literary theory, visual and aural studies, cultural studies and technology studies that make up the amazingly multifaceted world of academic food studies, in hopes that this structure can help further a conversation about best practices"--

Dixie Lullaby
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Dixie Lullaby

Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and social idealists, helped end the Vietnam War, and ushered in the sexual revolution. In Dixie Lullaby, veteran music journalist Mark Kemp shows that rock also renewed the identity of a generation of white southerners who came of age in the decade after segregation -- the heyday of disco, Jimmy Carter, and Saturday Night Live. Growing up in North Carolina in the 1970s, Kemp experienced pain, confusion, and shame as a result of the South's residual civil rights battles. His elementary school was integrated in 1968, the year Kemp reached...

Constructing Townscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Constructing Townscapes

Constructing Townscapes: Space and Society in Antebellum Tennessee

The WBT Briarhoppers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

The WBT Briarhoppers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-04-05
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  • Publisher: McFarland

In 1934, WBT radio announcer Charles Crutchfield formed a spur-of-the-moment musical group to satisfy a potential sponsor looking for a "hillbilly" radio program to showcase its products. Known as the WBT Briarhoppers, this group went on to become one of the longest lasting bluegrass/country ensembles in America, staying on the air until 1951 and then continuing to perform. Compiled from firsthand interviews, this work tells the story of the WBT Briarhoppers, analyzing the band's history and its connection to the growth of American radio and radio advertising. Using the Briarhoppers as a common thread, it examines changes in culture and the group's contribution to country and bluegrass music. The work also discusses legendary performers including the Tennessee Ramblers, The Johnson Family, and Bill and Charlie Monroe. A discography is included.

Let There Be Light
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

Let There Be Light

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

From the Tuesday Morning Breakfast Forum to the corridors of West Charlotte High School to the pews of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, Let There Be Light is a journey into Charlotte's Historic West End, a community that embodies Charlotte's rich past and points toward its future. Let There Be Light, an anthology, invites readers into a new era of civic engagement. A mosaic of thoughtful essays written by some of Charlotte's premier thinkers including journalists, historians and civic leaders, the work reflects on the complex and often controversial issues that shape the New South. More specifically, it is a bold exploration into the richly diverse community surrounding the 147-year-old Johnson C. Smith University, one of Charlotte's historical gems. Its title inspired by the university's Latin motto, Sit Lux, Let There Be Light grapples with issues in one of Charlotte's most misunderstood communities in ways that will broaden your thinking about Charlotte and enlighten your views on urban communities everywhere.