Mike Lassiter Shares Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait

Mike Lassiter Shares Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, October 26, at 9:30 PM

Mike Lassiter's Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait
provides a pictorial guide to North Carolina's commercial relics of the
19th and 20th century: the general stores and hardware shops, the corner
drug stores with soda fountains, the blue-plate diners and hot dog stands,
the filling stations, the barber shops, the single-screen theaters.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina
Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Friday, October 26, at 9:30 PM, the
Statesville lawyer and Davidson resident shares the many images he
captured on his travels along North Carolina's rural highways and byways,
exploring an era before Internet shopping, big-box stores, shopping malls,
chain restaurants and strip malls.

Mike Lassiter is originally from Statesville, NC, and practices law with
his father there. He now lives in Davidson with his three children. His
244-page book, Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait,
includes hundreds of photographs from all 100 North Carolina counties of
buildings, and a way of life, which is vanishing from our landscape as
"progress" moves across the state.

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with Mike Lassiter on North
Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, October 26, at 9:30 PM, with an encore episode
airing Sunday, October 28, at 5 PM.

During the 20-week, 10th anniversary season of North Carolina Bookwatch,
guests also include: J. Peder Zane (The Top Ten), Gov. Michael Easley
(Look Out, College, Here I Come!), Michele Bowen (Holy Ghost Corner), Neal
Thompson (Driving With the Devil), Joseph Bathanti (Coventry), Joanna
Catherine Scott (The Road From Chapel Hill), James Dodson (Beautiful
Madness), Dan Heath (Made To Stick), Margaret Maron (Hard Row), James
Peacock (Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World), Tim
Madigan (I’m Proud of You), Melton McLaurin (The Marines of Montford
Point), Kathryn Stripling Byer (Coming to Rest),  David Guy (Jake Fades),
Georgann Eubanks (Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains), Zelda
Lockhart (Cold Running Creek), Joe and Terry Graedon (Best Choices from
the People’s Pharmacy), Fred Hobson (Off the Rim), and William Powell
(Encyclopedia of North Carolina).

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the Bookwatch blog and online book club, please visit: [
http://www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch ]www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

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Quail Ridge Books and Music, Raleigh’s independent, full service
bookstore, bringing readers and writers together since 1984.

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programs for and about North Carolina. UNC-TV is the statewide 11-station
broadcast network of the University of North Carolina. For more
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