This book focuses on Star, N.C. and the old Country Life Academy. If you love to read about North Carolina and its early progressive schools, this book is for you. One of the first, if not the first, folk schools in the United States, the Country Life Academy brought vocational and academic instruction to a section of North Carolina which until that time hade been very poor. Most of the discussion in on Dr. Edward F. Green.
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