Tar Heel Traveler: Journeys Across North Carolina [Paperback]

A blend of oral history and memoir with a good dose of quirky humor, the Tar Heel Traveler is a celebratory look at the people and places of North Carolina. Mason is the TV reporterthe Tar Heel Travelerwho journeys across North Carolina profiling colorful characters and out-of-the-way places.A blend of oral history and memoir with a good dose of quirky humor, Tar Heel Traveler is a celebratory look at the people and places of North Carolina. WRAL-TV reporter Scott Masonthe Tar Heel Travelerprofiles colorful characters and out-of-the-way places, from a man without arms in Chapel Hill who chainsaws trees with his feet to a 101-year-old woman from Southern Pines whose homemade snake oil cures every ailment and from a Hyde County church moved by God to a Chatham County circle created by Satan; and a Jackson County rock carved by a giant..Scott Mason has been a television reporter for 25 years and WRAL's Tar Heel Traveler since 2007. His more than 100 journalism awards include 14 regional Emmys and three National Edward R. Murrow awards, one of broadcasting's highest honors. He has twice been named North Carolina Television Reporter of the Year, in 2004 and 2005.Celebrated veteran television reporter Scott Mason loves nothing more than being on the road in North Carolina. Which is why he almost bounced right out of his boss's office and skipped back to the newsroom a few years back when told, We'd like you to be the Tar Heel Traveler . . . Do the stories you love to do. The state is your oyster. He has now done more than five hundred such stories, and Tar Heel Traveler brings together thirty of the best. This is an unforgettable collection of colorful people, things, and placesfrom a sacred mailbox perched on a sand dune at Sunset Beach to the most wicked cinema villain of all time, Cowboy Coward of Deliverance fame, who, as it turns out, is in fact a scraggly backwoodsman who still knows how to play his part.A curious tour of the Tarheel state, narrated by a well3Ë