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Some books to check out:

Birding in NC State Parks
To order: 919-844-905- or email: chickadeebirders@earthlink.net

Road Biking North Carolina (2003)
Judi Lawson Wallace
Falcon Press


Ghost Tales of the Uwharries (1996)

Fred T. Morgan. Bandit Books.

Uwharrie Lakes Trail Guide (1998)
Don Childrey. Earthbound Sports Inc.

Books on Seagrove and other
North Carolina Pottery:


Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina (1990)
Charles G. Zug III UNC Press.

The Remarkable Potters of Seagrove (2006)
Charlotte V. Brown. Lark Books

The Potters Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina (2005)
Mark Hewitt and Nancy Sweezy

On the Road with Charles Kuralt (1995)
Written by Wilmington, NC native
 Charles Kuralt. Fawcett.

The King of Lies (2006)
John Hart. Detective novel set in Salisbury. St. Martins Minotaur.

Uncommon Clay (2001)
Margaret Maron.
Murder set in Seagrove. Thorndike Press.


St. Dale (2005
)
Sharyn McCrumb
Tribute to legendary NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt modeled after the Canterbury Tales. Kensington Press.

Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy (1995)
Written by NC archaeologist Joffre Lanning Coe. UNC Press.

My Pee Dee River Hills (1995)
Chris Florence. Down Home Press.

Deadly Greed: The McEachern Murders in Hamlet, North Carolina (2003)
Clark Cox. High Country Press.

Gold Mining in North Carolina (1999)
Richard F. Knapp and Brent Glass
NC Division of Archives and History

Friends and Assassins: Poems (1993)
Champeen:
A Novel (1999)
 Crusoe's Island: The story of a Writer and a Place (2000)

Heather Ross Miller, poet and author, lives in Badin
 
Load up on some CDs of
native musicians:


George Clinton
Funk musician, Kannapolis

John Coltrane
Jazz musician, Hamlet

Earl Scruggs
Bluegrass musician, Flint Hill

Randy Travis
Country musician, Marshville

Doc and Merle Watson
Folk musician, Deep Gap

Lou Donaldson
Jazz musician, Badin  



Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Centers:

Central Park NC
(910) 428-9001
www.centralparknc.org

Anson County
(704) 694-4181
www.ansoncounty.org


Moore County
(800) 346-5362
www.homeofgolf.com


Montgomery County

(910) 572-2575
www.montgomery-county.com


Randolph County
(800) 626-2672
www.visitrandolphcounty.com


Richmond County
(910) 895-9058
www.micropublishing.com/tourism


Rowan County
(800) 332-2343
www.visitsalisburync.com


Stanly County

(704) 986-2583
www.stanlycvb.com



County Economic Development Commissions

Anson County
(704) 694-9513
www.ansonedc.org


Davidson County
(336) 243-1900
www.davidsoncountync.com


  Moore County
(910) 246-0311
www.moorebusiness.org

Montgomery County
(910) 572-2575
www.montgomery-county.com

Randolph County
(336) 626-2233

www.rcedc.com

Richmond County
(910) 997-8190

www.richmondnced.com

Rowan County
(704) 637-5526

www.rowanedc.com

Stanly County
(704) 986-3682

  www.stanlyedc.org