Publisher's Synopsis
"Entertaining, funny, highly readable" The Essential Facts for the Native, Newcomer or Visitor to the Colonial Capital of North Carolina. Here's what you'll discover in New Bern History 101:
-Why New Bern bears stick out their tongues.
-Once and for all, what a Palatine is.
-Where all the local Indians went.
-The Richard Dobbs Spaight autopsy.
-How New Bern and sideburns are connected.
-The ghost Baron DeGraffenried saw.
-The explosive cabbage of Tryon Palace.
-How Pepsi's inventor lost his company.
-Why and how the Yankees took New Bern.
-The local treasures unearthed in Venezuela.
