New Bern History 101 - Paperback

by Edward Barnes Ellis Jr. (Author)

"Entertaining, funny, highly readable" The Essential Facts for the Native, Newcomer or Visitor to the Colonial Capital of North Carolina. Here's what you'll discover in New Bern History 101:
-Why New Bern bears stick out their tongues.
-Once and for all, what a Palatine is.
-Where all the local Indians went.
-The Richard Dobbs Spaight autopsy.
-How New Bern and sideburns are connected.
-The ghost Baron DeGraffenried saw.
-The explosive cabbage of Tryon Palace.
-How Pepsi's inventor lost his company.
-Why and how the Yankees took New Bern.
-The local treasures unearthed in Venezuela.