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Trails
Mountains
Southern Mountains
Black Mountain, Montreat, Swannanoa
Canton, Cold Mountain, Lake Logan, Balsam
Sylva, Dillsboro, Cullowhee, Highlands
Franklin, Hayesville, Brasstown, Murphy, Texana
Robbinsville, Fontana, Almond, Nantahala Gorge
Bryson City, Cherokee, Great Smoky Mountains Natio
Waynesville, Hot Springs, Marshall, Mars Hill
Asheville
Brevard, Rosman, Green River, Zirconia, Flat Rock,
Northern Mountains/Foothills
Burnsville, Micaville, Celo, Mount Mitchell
Old Fort, Chimney Rock, Lake Lure, Tryon
Rutherfordton, Spindale, Forest City, Shelby
Lincolnton, Hickory, Moravian Falls
Wilkesboro, Happy Valley, Blowing Rock, Linville F
Marion, Little Switzerland, Spruce Pine, Penland,
Grandfather Mountain, Crossnore, Valle Crucis...
Todd, West Jefferson, Jefferson, Crumpler...
Piedmont
Western Piedmont
Winston-Salem
Germanton, Danbury, Pilot Mountain, Mount Airy,..
Mocksville, Cooleemee, Salisbury, Gold Hill
Statesville Mooresville Davidson Huntersville Conc
UNC Charlotte, NoDa, Brooklyn, Uptown Walking Tour
Charlotte Neighborhoods (Driving Tour)
Mount Holly, Belmont, Gastonia
Matthews, Monroe, Wingate, Marshville, Wadesboro
Norwood, Aquadale, Albemarle, Badin
Morrow Mountain, Troy, Star, Seagrove
Asheboro, Randleman, Lexington, Thomasville
Eastern Piedmont
High Point, Centre, Greensboro
Madison, Eden, Reidsville, Yanceyville, Milton, Ro
Hillsborough, Efland, Mebane
Graham, Burlington, Snow Camp, Silk Hope, Siler Ci
Chapel Hill and Carrboro
Durham
Stagville and Oxford
Featured Writers
Cathy Smith Bowers
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Fred Chappell
Angela Davis-Gardner
Ron Rash
Carole Boston Weatherford
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Buy the Guidebook
Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont
Order today: UNC Press or call toll free (800) 848-6224
Hardcover: $37.50 (ISBN 978-0-8078-3333-9)
Paperback: $19.95 (ISBN 978-0-8078-5979-7)
Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life for travelers. Eighteen tours direct readers to sites that more than 200 Tar Heel authors have explored in their fiction, poetry, plays and creative nonfiction. Along the way, excerpts chosen by author Georgann Eubanks illustrate a writer's connection to a specific place or reveal intriguing local culture. Featured authors include O. Henry, Doris Betts, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, John Hart, Betty Smith, Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Cornwell, Carson McCullers, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Reynolds Price and David Sedaris. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont is an exciting way to revisit the places that you already love and to discover new people and places through the eyes of N.C. writers.
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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains
Order today: UNC Press or call toll free (800) 848-6224
Hardcover: $36.95 (ISBN 978-0-8078-3137-3)
Paperback: $19.95 (ISBN 978-0-8078-5833-2)
Organized geographically through a series of 18 half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains directs travelers to the memorable sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. Along the way, read outstanding excerpts evoking the places, customs, colloquialisms and characters that figure prominently in their poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and plays. More than 170 writers are featured in this volume, including Sequoyah, Elizabeth Spencer, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Robert Morgan, William Bartram, Gail Godwin, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Tyler, Lillian Jackson Braun, Nina Simone and Romulus Linney. Author Georgann Eubanks also includes information about libraries, museums, colleges, bookstores and other venues open to the public where writers regularly present their work or are represented in exhibitions, events, performances and festivals.
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