Remembering Greensboro
By: Jim Schlosser
Series: American chronicles : a History Press series
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781596298194
Table of contents: title: Happenings; title: A return to where history was made; title: The bewildering case of Fritz Klenner and Susie Lynch; title: The Hardy Boys take on opposing roles at tank farm strike; title: Sleepy brakeman responsible for one of county's worst train wrecks; title: Two survivors of the 1948 polio epidemic; title: Two Jacksons, one White, one Black, once foes, stand together; title: Places; title: Guilford's last old-time roadhouse no longer an isolated place on highway; title: Mining long gone but an old engine house has new purpose and serves as reminder of Guilford's gold-digging days; title: What looks so ordinary now, Blacks and Whites at a dime store lunch counter, was considered unthinkable two decades ago; title: House on GTCC campus still stands after 180 years; title: Is it "Mon-ti-sel-lo" or "Mon-ti-chel-lo"?; title: Oak Ridge Horse Show on an unusual holiday, Easter Monday, keeps Guilford County in touch with old South; title: A Guilford County church, founded by a former slave, is linked to poet Longfellow; title: The city's piping proudly about its ancient water pipes; title: Humphrey's folly fooled everyone by lasting; title: A structure architects won awards designing is gone in seconds, but symbol of Burlington Industries building lingers in dust; title: Heroes, characters, a celebrity; title: A Black hero among White soldiers at Guilford Courthouse; title: The MASH man, Dr. John Lydy, served in two wars; title: and as the model for Trapper John; title: A man for all history; title: Guilford's first and only first lady; title: Greensboro's first Eagle Scout now a centenarian; title: A Vietnam tragedy; title: Moses was married here; title: Rich no more, but happier; title: A poet's love letters to his wife; title: Sweet memories of High Point's music man; title: He lived life his way; title: Architect of the White House learned his craft here; title: Even in 1914, people deemed terminally ill got a second opinion; title: Sports; title: Betty Jameson's life landed in rough after a brilliant pro golf career that had its highest moment in Greensboro; title: Pleasant Garden baseball team, three-peat state champs of long ago, finally get recognition; title: Slammin' Sam returns to Starmount Forest, where he won first Greater Greensboro Open sixty years ago; title: A return to tourney sparks memories; title: Tom Alston made history as first Black St. Louis Cardinal and then fell from big leagues; title: City had Green Bay Packers a week a year; title: Concoctions; title: Why apinol vanished from city's medicine chest; title: Ah, the sweet smell of an El Moro; title: A sauce that tastes good and in a bottle that will make you blush; title: Construction unearths old Vicks medicine bottles at former factory site.