New Bern History 101

by Edward Barnes Ellis Jr

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780975870099
Publisher:	McBryde Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	12/15/2016
Edition description:	Second Printing ed.
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

EDWARD ELLIS is a native of Craven County, raised in New Bern and Havelock. He's spent his professional career as a journalist, lobbyist and businessman. With North and South Carolina newspapers, he was an award-winning reporter-photographer, columnist, managing editor and publisher. In 1986, Eddie founded the Havelock News and was publisher of Cherry Point's Windsock for eight years. He served for four years as a legislative representative for state employees in the North Carolina General Assembly. He's owned and operated business enterprises involved in real estate development, construction, marketing, sales, consulting and shipping. None of those occupations diverted him from his fascination with local history, which he says took root during childhood in the local elementary school system. This life-long avocation led him to reading, writing, study, collecting, and personal research both on the ground in Craven County and in archives from New England to New Orleans.