Posted in Tar Heelia on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Political cartoonist John Branch will speak about his career in a lecture titled “A Tar Heel Cartoonist in Texas: Drawing the Line in the Lone Star State” on April 17 at 5:45 p.m. in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Branch has been the editorial cartoonist of the San [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I found this interesting detail of Piedmont North Carolina on a 1778 map of the eastern United States published in Paris: The French phrase at the center translates to something like “New Garden where the non-conformists meet.” New Garden was a town at the time — the name was later changed to Guilford College and [...]
