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Remembering Kannapolis : tales from Towel City
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- Creator
- Helen Arthur-Cornett
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- Language
- English
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- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2006
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- 126 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781596290730, 1596290730
- OCLC
- ocm71946297
- "Collection of writings first published in the Charlotte observer's "A Look Back" column"--P. [4] of cover.
- Glass, a village before Kannapolis was born -- Historian tells how Jim Cannon built Kannapolis -- Jim Cannon's monumental impact lives on -- Cannon and Fetzer Store-first step to fortune -- $1.35 for men's shoes? -- Of mud, dust, goods on credit in 1920s Kannapolis -- Old-timer vividly recalls growing up -- In early 1900s, school principals were 'lords' -- No fancy school equipment, but kids were good -- 30's textile strike : bayonets, tear gas, stabbings -- Bloodshed at Gibson Mill -- Old-time football rituals : Kannapolis versus Concord -- Roy Rogers and Trigger at '40's Swanee Theater -- War empties dugouts, but local lawyer saves baseball -- Major leagues steal local players -- Comic ballplayer Swartz tickled fan and irked umpires -- Victory League's aim : escape from war worries -- Twenty highway markers tell history of Kannapolis and Cabarrus -- It's not hard to erect historical markers-- Trim, the big mule, helped build Kannapolis in 1906 -- Humor rampant in 'way back when' letter -- Trim again, plus country cousins and a dying cemetery -- And they thought great-granddaddy was a ghost! -- Runaway Model-T : the barnyard fun just doesn't stop -- Quaint epitaph-and thousands flock to big July Fourth parade -- Kannapolis's earliest settler : prominent John Baker Sr -- Baker's cemetery on his 1700s royal land grant -- Varied and colorful history in old Coleman community -- Kannapolis's Israel Pickens made vital Alabama history -- Handsome and accomplished, Pickens seemed paragon of virtue
- Glass, a village before Kannapolis was born -- Historian tells how Jim Cannon built Kannapolis -- Jim Cannon's monumental impact lives on -- Cannon and Fetzer store-first step to fortune -- $1.35 for men's shoes? lively recollections of Cannon store -- Of mud, dust, goods on credit in 1920s Kannapolis -- Old-timer vividly recalls growing up years -- In early 1900s, school principals were 'lords' -- No fancy school equipment, but kids were good -- 30's textile strike : bayonets, tear gas, stabbings -- Bloodshed at Gibson Mill -- Old-time football rituals : kannapolis vs Concord -- Roy Rogers, Trigger, at old '40's Swanee Theater -- War empties dugouts, but local lawyer saves baseball -- Major leagues steal local players -- Comic ballplayer Swartz tickled fan, irked umpires -- Victory League's aim : escape from war worries -- Highway markers tell history of Kannapolis, Cabarrus -- It isn't hard to get a highway marker -- Trim, big mule helped build Kannapolis in 1906 -- Humor rampant in 'way back when' letter -- Trim again, plus country cousins and a dying cemetery -- And they thought great-granddaddy was a ghost! -- Runaway Model-T : barnyard fun just doesn't stop -- Quaint epitaph-and thousands flock to big July 4 parade -- Kannapolis' earliest settler : prominent John Baker Sr -- Baker's cemetery on his 1700s royal land grant -- Varied, colorful history in old Coleman community -- Kannapolis' Israel Pickens made vital Alabama history -- Handsome, accomplished, Pickens seemed paragon of virtue