Named for Sir Walter Raleigh, this engaging history of the city details the perseverance and intense involvement of its citizens through Civil War, depressions, corruption and scandal to become a prosperous and booming metropolis. It is enlivened with fascinating anecdotes of the interesting people in its past and present.
James Vickers earned his master’s
degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of
two histories of Chapel Hill and teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
James
Vickers
8½ x 11
- 192
pages - Over 200 b&w and color photos - Hardcover
ISBN 0-9654754-7-6
$37.95