Carl Goerch was known as "Mr. North Carolina." He excelled in several fields; as the long term reading clerk for the state house of representatives, a popular broadcaster, newspaper columnist, book author, and a widely sought speaker "full of good humor." Goerch also founded the popular magazine The State, still published today as Our State. This book collects his fascinating articles about the Old North State including the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights, a church cleaning in Lickskillet, the Biltmore Estate, the first ...
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Carl Goerch was known as "Mr. North Carolina." He excelled in several fields; as the long term reading clerk for the state house of representatives, a popular broadcaster, newspaper columnist, book author, and a widely sought speaker "full of good humor." Goerch also founded the popular magazine The State, still published today as Our State. This book collects his fascinating articles about the Old North State including the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights, a church cleaning in Lickskillet, the Biltmore Estate, the first airplane flight, a 150-year-old fire, Windy Billy's great speech, Virginia Dare (first European child born in North America), the most interesting thing in each of the state's 100 counties, good things to eat, the incredible story of Napoleon's Marshal Ney (did he really die in North Carolina?), and much more -- a marvelous portrait in historical depth of North Carolina.
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