Posted in Tar Heelia on December 20, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Many people remember Bones McKinney as the coach of the Wake Forest men’s basketball team, a post he held from 1958 to 1965. That’s no small claim to fame, but Bones may be part of a more select club–a person with ties to all the “Big Four” Tobacco Road basketball programs. Here’s the story: Bones [...]
Posted in New Books, Tar Heelia on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The North Carolina Collection got an early Christmas present this year when two friends of the collection, Snow and Ben Roberts, brought us a copy of Don’t Buy Me Any Green Bananas. I have been looking for this book for at least a decade. As a coach at Wake Forest (1958-1965) and with the ABA [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The two men who were arguably the most famous residents of North Carolina in the nineteenth century are featured in a new online collection: Chang and Eng Bunker: The Siamese Twins. This website presents original materials from the North Carolina Collection and the Southern Historical Collection and documents the lives and times of conjoined twins [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The other day, in the North Carolina Collection stacks, I found a small packet labeled “Harriet-Henderson Mill Pay Envelopes, 1926-1927.” Inside were a bunch of small, manila envelopes that had at one time contained the weekly pay of textile mill employees. On the outside of each envelope was the employee’s name, the date, and a [...]
Posted in History, Postcards, Tar Heelia on November 19, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A 1933 hurricane pushed the G. A. Kohler, a four-masted schooner from Baltimore, ashore just north of Cape Hatteras. The wreck remained on the coast until World War II, when the wooden ship was burned in an effort to recover scrap iron from her hull. The image of the intact ship was made sometime between [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on November 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Today’s News & Observer has a nice feature on the fortieth anniversary of the Black Student Movement at UNC. This photo, from the UNC student yearbook, depicts a member of the Black Student Movement in 1969. The image was used in “I Raised My Hand to Volunteer: Students Protest in 1960s Chapel Hill,” an exhibit [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pretty sure that “Jack and the Beanstalk” is an English fairy tale, but the location of the story may have to be changed to western North Carolina. On September 1st of this year, Boone-based Appalachian State University shocked the college football world by upsetting perennial powerhouse Michigan…in “The Big House,” no less. Not to [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The extensive archive of noted North Carolina photographer Hugh Morton (shown below in the early 1940s) is one of the most exciting acquisitions to come to the North Carolina Collection in recent years. The staff of the NCC Photographic Archives are currently hard at work in sorting through and cataloging a lifetime’s worth of work. [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The North Carolina Yam Festival opens today in Tabor City. We found the overall-clad Yam shown here on the cover of the 1990 Tabor City Thoroughfare Plan.
Posted in From the Stacks, Recipes on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was raised in the Midwest, a place where fruit-flavored gelatin offers virtually endless possibilities for culinary creativity. Fruit, vegetables, and various creamy substances all found their way into the many congealed salads of my youth. I thought myself well desensitized to any and all strange Jello dishes until I found a North Carolina recipe [...]
