Radio Interview with WSJS 600, Friday, July 30th

I'll be on WSJS 600AM with JR Snider tomorrow at 9:35am to discuss Kid Carolina. Tune in or click here to listen live!

Charlotte Creative Loafing Review

Here's another review of KID CAROLINA that I recently became aware of--the book lives on!

Another Great Review for KID CAROLINA!

Check out the review of Kid Carolina by the Charlotte Observer here!

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Booklist Review of Kid Carolina!

R. J. Reynolds Jr. (1906–64), an heir to the Camel cigarette fortune, was frequently in the public eye. Whether he gave away money, divorced wives (three of them), killed somebody while driving drunk, stood for public office, served in the navy in World War II, or competed in yachting regattas, the scion attracted attention on a tabloid scale. In this thoroughly researched account of Reynolds’ raffish life, Schnakenberg does not judge her subject, presenting a chronicle of his activities reconstructed from newspaper reports, Reynolds family archives, and previous family biographies such as The Gilded Leaf (1989). The author also adopts, in places, the liberty of re-creating dialogue in numerous scenes of domestic hostility. Dysfunctional before the invention of the term, Reynolds’ marriages were replete with boozing, screaming, and thrown objects. If not as tempestuous, his fourth and final union characteristically produced strife: Reynolds disinherited his children and bequeathed his entire estate to his last spouse. Crediting him with some enduring philanthropic legacies, Schnakenberg fairly shades in the light and the dark in her portrait of the restlessly rich Reynolds. --Gilbert Taylor

Kid Carolina Photo of the Day!

Attached is the new Kid Carolina photo of the day! Visit my Kid Carolina Capzle to see more! If you're following my trivia questions on Capzle, the answer to last week's question is: Will Reynolds left the orphaned children at Reynolda instead of taking them in to his Tanglewood home.

Visit Capzle to learn more about the photos and find out the new question of the day!

 

Kid Carolina Photo of the Day!

Attached is today's Kid Carolina photo of the day! Visit my Kid Carolina Capzle to see more! If you're following my trivia questions on Capzle, the answer to Sunday's question is that it was the headquarters of Reynolds Airways, the airline that R.J. Jr. built in the 1920s, which was one of the first domestic commercial airlines in the U.S. Visit Capzle to learn more about the photos and find out the new question of the day!

 

Kid Carolina Photo of the Day

Attached is today's "Kid Carolina" photo of the day! Visit my Kid Carolina Capzle to see more! If you're following my trivia questions on Capzle, the answer to Thursday's question is that it's on the site of the original Reynolds mansion on 5th Street where R.J. Reynolds Jr. was born. That's the significance of the Forsyth County Public Library, which was built on the site after R.J. Jr. donated the land to the city in the 1940s. Visit Capzle to learn more about the photos and find out the new question of the day!

Kid Carolina Photo of the Day

Attached is today's "Kid Carolina" photo of the day! Visit my Kid Carolina Capzle to see more! If you're following my trivia questions on Capzle, the answer to yesterday's question was "Shreve and Lamb." That's the name of the architectural firm that designed both the RJ Reynolds Tobacco building in Winston-Salem and the Empire State Building in New York. In fact, the Empire State Building was modeled after the Reynolds tobacco headquarters. Congrats to Ms. Tal for getting the answer right!

Radio Interview with Chapel Hill, NC NPR

If you missed my interview with WUNC, click here to listen now!