| Homegrown/Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails | 
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Sales Rank: 378322
Category: Book
Publisher: John F Blair Pub
Studio: John F Blair Pub
Manufacturer: John F Blair Pub
Label: John F Blair Pub
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0895873559
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.560444
EAN: 9780895873552
ASIN: 0895873559
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
This guide combines authentic arts and agricultural experiences and unique places and people into 16 self-directed driving tours through the rural countryside. The trails comprise an insider's guide to 72 Piedmont and eastern North Carolina counties. The guide offers information about art galleries, artists' studios, performing arts, hands-on farm experiences, you-pick organic produce, favorite local restaurants and festivals, music and crafts, farmers' markets, specialty shops and foods, vineyards and wineries, museums, historic houses and sites, and picturesque bed-and-breakfasts.
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 A must for anyone planning on visiting North Carolina August 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Eastern and Piedmont regions of North Carolina have much to offer travelers. "Homegrown Handmade: Art Roads and Farm Trails" is a travel guide focusing on these areas of North Carolina, listing countless art galleries, performances, agricultural fairs, festivals, and other attractions which will bring visitors much entertainment and interest. A must for anyone planning on visiting North Carolina, "Homegrown Handmade" is highly recommended for community library travel collections.
 Very disappointing July 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a group tour director in eastern North Carolina, so I was excited when I learned of this book. What a let-down! There's absolutely nothing new here. The title seems to promise something unique, something "Homegrown [and/or] Handmade." While perhaps 10% of the places listed here actually do sell homegrown or handmade items, the rest are the common, everybody-stops-here, places included in every guide to this region. Paid for with tobacco settlement money, this purports to be an effort to inject something new into the economy of the former tobacco lands. (This means that western North Carolina isn't even mentioned!) If there are five tobacco-farming families represented here, I'd be surprised. This book seems like it is either paid advertising for a mixed bag of local establishments or was put together by people who never left their laptops. Tax payer's money has already been wasted on this -- don't waste yours!
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