"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.
