Hidden History of Roanoke: Star City Stories

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 semipro African American baseball team that played in the 1930s and ’40s, and
find out how a fistfight at Shenandoah Life helped save the company. Author
Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover these marvelous and
mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the South.