Table of Contents
Preface 15
Introduction Wilton Barnhardt 17
A Place Called Home
On the Corner Grayson Haver Currin 27
In a Relationship with Raleigh: It's Complicated Peggy Payne 34
Patterns Trade Fellers 43
Intersections June Spence 49
"Fair Ground" Tom Hawkins 54
Home is where you mend the roof Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi 64
A World Apart
A Forest in the Middle of It Betty Adcock 79
Fox View, Montclair Neighborhood Elaine Neil Orr 84
Street Scenes
"Autumn Prayer, North Carolina State" Dorianne Laux 99
The Parade Jimmy Creech 101
"North State" David Rigsbee 107
Go Pack Tina Haver Currin 109
Curtain Call Amanda Lamb 115
Close-Ups
Backsliders Scott Huler 127
A Force of Nature Andrea Weigl 132
A Literary Place Bridgette A Lacy 138
Where the Beauty Lies Liza Roberts 144
Views from Before
The Third House Rob Christensen 151
Harking Back to Hargett Street Eleanora E. Tate 155
"Raleigh Jazz Festival, 1986" Lenard D. Moore 162
Dining at Balentine's Dana Wynne Lindquist 164
Gateway to the Past Kelly Starling Lyons 169
Views in Fiction
Of Innocence and Wild Irish Rose Sheila Smith McKoy 177
The Devil Himself G.D. Gearino 182
Hungry Angela Davis-Gardner 188
The Carousel at Pullen Park Margaret Maron 190
Ladies of the Marble Hearth Hillary Hebert 194
George Delivers the Goods John Kessel 207
