Poor no more was one of my favorites. I read it while I was stationed at Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal( Resident Engineer) at South Port NC, which was the home of the "Old Man". This was the area( there and Wilmington) the book was set in. I felt like I was there in the story, with the places and roads all around being in the book. There was a saying in the book, that I still use. When the mill burned down, they said they "sold it to the yankees"( insurance company).
Mike