Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's
attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from
extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James
fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North
Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history,
James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of
Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing
center. This personal histor