Download or read book New Bern History 101 written by Edward Barnes Ellis and published by McBryde Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Entertaining, funny, highly readable..." 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.