{"product_id":"pitt-county-eastern-reflections-von-mary-boccaccio","title":"Pitt County","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlessed with lush, rural landscapes and small-town charm, Pitt \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCounty possesses a history that typifies the traditional Southern \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eexperience. Once a major cotton producer, the area farmers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etransformed their cotton harvests in the late 1880s into tobacco, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estill a cash crop today in the community. Just as Pitt County is a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecenter for both farming and education today, this volume, with over \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e125 images, focuses on the importance of flue-cured tobacco and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elearning institutions, such as the East Carolina Teachers Training \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSchool, a predecessor of East Carolina University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePitt County: Eastern Reflections is a visual tour into the county's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epast, primarily the early twentieth century, when horse and buggy \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshared road space with the early automobile, when students of all \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eages studied in one-room schoolhouses across the countryside, and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhen the main streets were flooded with wagons full of cotton \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand tobacco on market days. You will meet early Pitt County \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efamilies, relax on front-porch rocking chairs, watch parades pass \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby along downtown streets, and view beautiful homes and farms in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommunities like Greenville, Farmville, and Bethel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781531660710\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEastern Reflections\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9781531660710","offer_id":32140283281501,"sku":"9781531660710","price":26.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/cd152500-479c-4b39-9c7b-a70ec854bd7c.jpg?v=1751170647","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/pitt-county-eastern-reflections-von-mary-boccaccio","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}