Scott Huler’s Adventure is “A Delicious Country: Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson’s 1700 Expedition”

In today’s LIVE episode number 56 at the Charlotte Museum of History, we meet Scott Huler, author of “A Delicious Country: Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson’s 1700 Expedition.”

And who is John Lawson, you might ask? Well, he was a young English gentleman who left home in 1700 looking for an adventure, and who, nine years after his quest for knowledge, published a very popular book at the time called “A New Voyage to Carolina.”

Lawson landed in Charleston, where he began his two month trip through the backcountry, much of it along the old Trading Path which ran North and South along the same path we now call Tryon Street in Charlotte. Lawson did pass through Charlotte before ending up in what is now called Little Washington near the coast, where he met a girl and settled down, and where he became an important public figure and Surveyor General to the colony.

Scott Huler is not a licensed surveyor – more a surveyor of words – and why he decided to travel by canoe and then foot, along the same 1700 route taken by John Lawson, and what he discovered on his own adventure, is the subject of this podcast.

Scott opens the show with a reading that demonstrates how he stumbled across Lawson’s journey and offers some speculation about the man and why and how he took this trip.

 

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Check out the author’s website here: scotthuler.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/huler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/huler

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawsontrek/

See an interactive map of the trek here:

www.Lawsontrek.com

Historical Marker at the Charlotte Museum of History

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About the Author:

Scott Huler is the author of seven books of nonfiction. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, and for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as Backpacker, Fortune, and ESPN. His books have been translated into five languages.

He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper and has taught at such colleges as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Scott was the 2011 Piedmont Laureate in creative nonfiction, a 2014-2015 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MITand currently works as the senior writer at Duke Magazine.

 

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Making Mid-rolls Fun –Charlotte Mecklenburg Library book suggestions

Our mid-roll guest this week, Tom Hanchett, the historian-in-residence at the Robinson-Spangler Carolina room at Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, offers some book suggestions about regional and local foods, including bar-b-cue, which is a food group Scott Huler discusses on the podcast.

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