27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry

Michael Parker · Fred Chappell · Lee Zacharias · Stuart Dischell · Richie Zweigenhaft · Diya Abdo · John L. Robinson · Allen Johnson · Edward Cone · Quinn Dalton · Drew Perry · Jim Dodson · Maria C. Johnson

Apr 2015 · Eno Publishers

About this ebook

27 VIEWS of GREENSBORO: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry is an anthology of the city once known for textile mills and as a train hub, now known for diversity, education, and sports. Twenty-seven journalists, novelists, poets, and essayists offer a broad and varied picture of life, present and past, in the Southern city—from the city’s brief stint as capital of the Confederacy to stories of its famous and less well-known civil rights protests, from reflections on Greensboro's overwhelming growth to a profile of the man who created Vicks VapoRub.

 

About the author

 Marianne Gingher is the author of the novel Bobby Rex's Greatest Hit (which was made into an NBC movie), many short stories, and two memoirs, including A Girl's Life, about growing up in Greensboro. Her most recent book, for which she served as editor, is Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers. She is co-founder of Jabberbox Puppet Theater, a Greensboro-based venue for puppetry arts, and is currently Bowman and Gordon Gray Professor of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she has taught for many years.