Author Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover
these marvelous and mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the
South.
How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and
why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New
York? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume
of hidden stories and forgotten tales from the Star City. Discover why a
Roanoker was found frozen in the North Atlantic and what Mother's Day
crime and trial shocked the city in 1949. Meet the Black Cardinals, a
semi-pro African American baseball team that played in the 1930s and
'40s, and find out how a fistfight at Shenandoah Life helped save the
company.