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Lectures, Events and Talks

May 2010
In This Issue
May 2010
Real NASCAR
Bill Ferris Out and About
May 2010

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Lecture with Dan S. Pierce, author of
Real Nascar: White Lightening, Red Clay,
and Big Bill France.


Thursday, May 6| 2:30-4 p.m. at the UNC General Alumni Center

Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France
, byNASCAR Book Cover Daniel S. Pierce, is hot off the press and hitting bookstores now. Dr. Pierce is associate professor and chair of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.If you're a racing fan or southern history buff, this book is the can't-miss backstory behind what has become a billion-dollar industry and one of the most popular spectator sports in America. Pierce writes as a historian and a fan, focusing on the sport from the 1940s to the 1970s. This is the NASCAR of sandy beaches and dirt tracks, racing for fun by day and racing from the law by night. NASCAR legend "Humpy" Wheeler calls this book "NASCAR 101," and he ought to know. No other book gives the full early history of this wildly popular sport. Pierce knows his stuff. But his history doesn't end with the last page of his book. He's blogging at realnascar.com, so you can check in every week for Pierce's historical insight into what's happening on the track today. So far he's blogged about the new History Channel reality series Madhouse and the Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem where it is filmed, Danica Patrick and the surprising history of women stock car drivers, the rising and falling fortunes of the sport and its on-again/off-again courtship with Detroit automakers.

FREE to Friends of The Center of the Study of the American South. Please call (919) 843-5115 to RSVP.  For directions, please see this link.



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Bill Ferris traveling in support of the blues this summer

Ferris Book CoverBill Ferris, Senior Associate Director of CSAS, will be traveling this summer spreading the blues, the music of the blues, that is.

On June 12th, he will be at the famous Chicago Blues Festival giving a talk in support of his book,
"Give My Poor Heart Ease."

June 23rd brings Bill to France.  He and Bertrand Tavernier, director, will be screening the film, "Mississippi Blues" in conjunction with a discussion about the film in Gare Saint Sauveur.

Dr. Ferris will also be speaking on June 26th at the Rootsway Festival in Parma, Italy, which is presented by the local Associazione Roots'n'Blues.

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Coming up in June, the next issue of the Sharing the South newsletter...

In the next issue of Sharing the South, we will have a preview of Southern Culture's music issue, a report on the Southern Oral History's summer interviews and a run down of all the upcoming fall lectures and events.