"The very first time I laid eyes on Raleigh, where I make my home, the city rocked my soul," recalls WRAL-TV news anchor and senior editor Charlie Gaddy in Celebrating a Triangle Millennium. "For me, a wide-eyed country schoolboy from the crossroads town of Biscoe, the experience was one of innocent purity, unblemished by any layer of sophistication whatsoever." That experience, courtesy of an eighth-grade field trip to North Carolina's capitol, remains vivid and unvarnished as Gaddy examines the Triangle area today--the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill--along with the high-tech phenomenon known as the Research Triangle. Although different creatures entirely, the region's two Triangles draw life from one another, sharing both a heartbeat and a home. Aided by hundreds of outstanding images gathered from the area's finest photographers, Gaddy writes of the 3,000-square-mile Triangle region, now home to more than a million people. It's a place where education is paramount, basketball is passionate, and the manners and social conventions are still proudly homespun--and defiantly friendly. Symphonies and fishing holes, state fairs and ballet recitals, lush parks and soaring skyscrapers--all are typically diverse elements that characterize one of the most delightfully misunderstood parts of America. The reason for this misunderstanding? As Gaddy writes, the Triangle's personality-- sophisticated or not--is never easy to gauge at first glance: "The region unfolds its unique character only to those who invest the time to divine its true soul and spirit. Most who do are apt to fall in love." Used Book in Good Condition