Just Folks: Visitin With Carolina People

Jerry Bledsoe has been called Carolina's Listener Laureate by Charles Kuralt for his ability to listen to the human voice and human heart. Just Folks collects 66 of the best of Bledsoe's newspaper and magazine pieces that capture the people of the Carolinas. With sensitivity and honesty, Bledsoe perfectly paints his subjects' strength and character.
Inside you will meet:
• Mary Sams, lady of leisure, with her cat named Lillian Hellman and her philodendron named Orphan Child
• Captain Sinbad, modern-day pirate
• Otelia Connors, Chapel Hill's self-appointed guardian of etiquette
• Charlie Stafford, a blacksmith with plenty of work, but one of the last of a dying trade
• Paula Sandburg, whose shared memories of her famous husband are only part of her charms
Just Folks captures a people, a time, and a place unlike any other.