Forgotten Tales of North Carolina

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Is it Sir Walter Raleigh, Guilford Courthouse and the Wright

Brothers? Or do you think of sea monsters, drunken geese, hitchhiking

alligators and a boy with "America" spelled out in his eyes?

Throughout its 350-year past, North Carolina has been the site of a

vast number of famous historical events. But the history of the Tarheel

State doesn't stop there. Just beyond what's well-known, written about

and taught lies a second history, a Tarheel treasure trove of fascinating

characters and extraordinary events that have for decades gone untold

or been forgotten. Until now.

In this enthralling new book, Tom Painter and Roger Kammerer

have compiled a collection of stories on North Carolina history sure

to befuddle, baffle and bemuse even lifelong residents. Who knew that

a man in Currituck County once traded his wife and two children for

a fishing net? Or that the town of Rich Square once counted among

its residents a 1,000-pound man? Or that a world champion fiddler

from Asheville once fiddled at the White House for the president and

King George VI? Or, better yet, that oysters with false teeth were

once hauled up from the waters off Morehead City?

Forgotten Tales of North Carolina is an incomparable collection of

outrageous historic stories that will delight Tarheels across the state,

ewcomers and natives alike.