Bücher der Reihe Chapel Hill Books

Originally published in 1984, Senator Ervin's delightful collection of stories and anecdotes winds its way from his native Morganton through Chapel Hill and Harvard, the military, the North Carolina Supreme Court, the United States Senate, and Watergate. It represents a lifetime of wit and wisdom - told in the late Senator Ervin's inimitable style.

Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and capsicum (as hot peppers are known botanically) thrive in the region's salty, oil-rich soil like nowhere else. At once an entertaining exploration of the history and folklore that surround hot peppers and a fascinating look at the industry built around the fiery crop, Schweid's book also offers a sympathetic portrait of a culture and a people in the midst of economic and social change.This edition of Hot Peppers has been thoroughly updated and includes some twenty-five recipes for such deliciously spicy dishes as crawfish etouffee, jambalaya, and okra shrimp gumbo.

In 1860 Somerset Place was one the most successful plantations in North Carolina, and its owner one of the largest slaveholders. This book tells the story of Dorothy Spruill Redford, a descendant of those slaves, and her ten year quest to recover the forgotten history of her ancestors.

Presents the fruits of a scientific as well as affectionate association between a dedicated naturalist and the birds, mammals, and insects of a small, wild world. Originally published to wide acclaim in 1969, this book is an enduring classic of nature writing, and readers everywhere can appreciate it as an engaging introduction to a naturalist's sensibility and way of looking at the world.

This volume introduces the modern cook to 408 recipes covering pickles, preserves, relishes, conserves, jellies, marmalades, chutneys, jams, fruit butters, pickled meats, mincemeats, ketchups, sauces, and candied fruits.

Teenagers Corky and Toby row out into the swamp off Stumpy Point, North Carolina, drawn by the mysterious light that hovers above it. Thrown back in time by a sudden explosion, they find themselves floating above 17th-century England, as the life of Blackbeard the Pirate unfolds below.

A rendering of the text of ""The Lost Colony"", Paul Green's dramatic retelling of the founding and mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony (1867). A model for outdoor theatre, the work combines song, dance, drama, special effects and music to breathe life into shadowy legend.

An exploration of the natural history and romantic past of the Outer Banks, the fragile islands that stretch down the North Carolina coast. From the excavation of what is believed to be Blackbeard's ship to threat of oil drilling, the book reveals the natural wonders and controversies.

Offers a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the US South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how families preserve and practice the traditional art of pottery making today.

An illustrated book which offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African-American quilters during the era of slavery. It examines the history of quilting in the enslaved community and places the quilts into a historical and cultural context.

This work identifies 11 major natural gardens on the North American continent. It gives an account of the vegetation and habitats of each community and then identifies and describes the wildflowers found there.

Acknowledged as the classic work on North Carolina cuisine, North Carolina and Old Salem Cookery was first published in 1955. This new edition, marking the book's first appearance in paperback, has been revised and updated by the author and includes several dozen new dishes.

The late Charlotte Hilton Green was an early and influential champion of the Tar Heel state's natural environment, and her popular weekly column, 'Out-of-Doors in Carolina,' appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer for forty-two years (1932-74). A classic in the field of popular nature writing, Birds of the South was originally published by UNC Press in 1933, preceding by a year Roger Tory Peterson's landmark volume, A Field Guide to the Birds. In this engaging collection of her early newspaper columns, Green details more than sixty varieties of birds common to southern gardens, fields, and woods. Quotations, poems, and anecdotes complement the descriptions of each species and help to make the book accessible even to novice nature lovers. In a new introduction and appendix, Eloise Potter highlights Green's enduring contribution to nature study and brings the book's scientific information up to date.

This novel tells the story of two boys growing up in Mississippi a generation after the Civil War. Drawing on the Old Testament story of ""David and Jonathan"", it tells of the boys friendship and love. The book was part of a small body of gay literature when it was first published in 1950.

Enslaved from birth until the end of the Civil War, the self-taught George Moses Horton was the first American slave to protest his bondage in published verse and the first black man to publish a book in the South. This volume collects 62 of his poems and presents a picture of his life and art.

Interweaving culinary history with a native's knowledge of the cooking secrets of the rural South, Bill Neal celebrates the glories of southern baking with 300 recipes for breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies and sweets that have been the pride of southern cooks for generations.

This text provides the story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the years preceding the civil rights era in the South of America.

This is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners.

Thomas Wolfe's The Lost Boy is a captivating and poignant retelling of an episode from Wolfe's childhood. The story of Wolfe's brother Grover and his trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair is told from four perspectives, each articulating the sentiments of a different family member. The Lost Boy also captures beautifully the experiences of growing up at the turn of the century.

Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavour and feel of what it has meant for southerners, over the generations, to gather at the table. This book is for reading, for cooking, for eating (in and out), for referring to, for browsing in, and, above all, for enjoying.

In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley - an isolated pocket in North Carolina. Sheppard began visiting her neighbours in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in 1935 her account of life in the mountains - Cabins in the Laurel - was published. The book included 128 photographs by Bayard Wootten.

This memoir blends Bland Simpson's personal experience with travel narrative, oral history and natural history to create a portrait of the Great Dismal Swamp and its people.