Saturday, April 21, 2012

NASCAR History Author Dan Pierce today in Andrews

April 21, 2 PM at the  Valleytown Cultural Arts Center,  Andrews NC - Daniel S. (Dan) Pierce is the author of the first truly comprehensive history of early NASCAR, Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France (UNC Press, 2010) and writes a monthly column for NASCAR Illustrated magazine on the history of the sport. He is Professor of History, Chair of the department, and resident professional cracker at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee where he worked with distinguished southern historian James C. Cobb.

He is also the author of the The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park (UT Press, 2000) and has had his work published in The New York Times, Southern Cultures, Smokies Life magazine, numerous encyclopedias including the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, The History Channel, North Carolina People with William Friday, North Carolina Bookwatch, and the South Carolina ETV Emmy Award winning program Take on the South.

At 7 PM this evening LoBrake perfroms live at the Cente
r. Thge local band plays music from the mountains as well as rock'n'roll, grunge, reggae, alternative, country, classic-rock and funk in our arsenal.

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