is the vivid, astonishing narrative of the intricate roots of a precocious and determined family, which crisscrosses the color line, and covers nearly 200 years of American History. Through chattel slavery, civil to cold wars, Reconstruction, wild West, Great Migration, Roaring Twenties, Depression, Civil Rights, and down to the present – the Roland Mills family of Pitt County has emerged as high as the pines that drape the landscape of the Old North State.