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1. Who's Who in Kentucky Arts &
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2. The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
 
3. The Complete Retirement Handbook:

1. Who's Who in Kentucky Arts & Crafts© 2006 Edition
by Arlene Wright-Correll
Paperback: 88 Pages (2007-05-29)
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Asin: 0615147550
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Who's Who in Kentucky Arts & CraftsA(c) is a resource and reference guide for all the talented and exceptional Kentucky artists and crafters selected to be in this 2006 Edition. Complete with colored pictures of their arts and crafts, their stories and how to contact them. A must for buyers and sellers of Kentucky arts & crafts. ... Read more


2. The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
by Hunter James
Hardcover: 224 Pages (2002-01-31)
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Asin: 0813122155
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James’s attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont.

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. In 1904 his grandfather was flooded out of a brothel in his birthday suit, and he later scandalized the local Baptist church with drunken sermons, exposing the dark secrets of the congregation.

James’s unique sense of the absurd, and his willingness to play the fool, make for entertaining reading as each of his efforts at preservation fail miserably. 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 desire to preserve the land. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Fighting Urban Sprawl
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 menace of an urbanization that has rapidly got out of contol.

5-0 out of 5 stars Fighting Urban Sprawl
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 menace of an urbanization that has rapidly got out of contol. ... Read more


3. The Complete Retirement Handbook: For Anyone Who Will Ever Retire
by Forest J. Bowman
 Hardcover: 248 Pages (1989-10)
list price: US$25.00
Isbn: 0813117100
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Here is that rare combination of a helpful book on a vital topic that is also a pleasure to read. Anyone planning a retirement will find all they need to know in this authoritative, hands-on guide. ... Read more


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