OK, it’s time for another edition of “Where The Heel?”. Does anyone recognize this building? As always, leave your guess as a comment. We’ll let you know if you’re right!
Archive for July, 2008
Where The Heel?, Part V
Posted in Tar Heelia on July 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Movies filmed in NC
Posted in Tar Heelia on July 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
With the upcoming release of Nights in Rodanthe (IMDB), a film based on the book by Nicholas Sparks and set in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, I’ve been curious about other movies that were filmed in the Tar Heel state. Thankfully, we’ve got a copy of The North Carolina Filmography by Jenny Henderson here [...]
Article Details The Shutdown Of An Alternative Summer Camp In Western NC
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Loyal NCM reader Jon Elliston has just published an interesting story about Camp Summerlane of Rosman, N.C., and its forced shut-down in 1963. (He stumbled upon details concerning Camp Summerlane while researching a different topic in the North Carolina Collection Clipping Files.) The camp was designed as a kind of social experiment where children and [...]
Horse Racing In The Carolinas
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Once again engaged in one of my favorite pastimes — browsing back and forth between the Encyclopedia of North Carolina and the South Carolina Encyclopedia — I was pleased to find that in both of the Carolinas the Sport of Kings was, at least in the antebellum period, the king of sports. A love of [...]
A Lost Wonderland
Posted in From the Stacks on July 18, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Has anyone in the great wide world of North Carolina Miscellany Land ever heard of Wonderland, North Carolina? I stumbled upon an image of it (see below) the other day while flipping through Views of Potter Farms Development : Showing Various Stages in the Evolution of Potter Farms, which is a wonderful pamphlet that we [...]
Where The Heel?, Part IV
Posted in Tar Heelia on July 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Our next installment of “Where The Heel?” features another imposing brick structure, see below. Can anyone tell me where this is? If you have a guess, leave it in the comments for this post. We’ll let you know if you are correct! We still don’t have any prizes to award the winners, but you can [...]
Quiet and Noise
Posted in From the Stacks on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I thought that I had found the best combination of town names in a single county when I wrote about Madison County a few months ago. But then Mike Hill pointed out to me two small towns in northern Moore County named Noise and Quiet, shown here on a 1901 state map: It looks like [...]
First In Digital?
Posted in Tar Heelia on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We all know that North Carolina proudly claims “First in Flight” on its license plates (much to Ohio’s chagrin). North Carolina also claims other firsts, such as the first state university, the first miniature golf course, and Babe Ruth’s first professional home run. Well, North Carolina will have another first to add to its long [...]
The Viewpoints of Jesse Helms
Posted in From the Stacks, History on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The recent death of Jesse Helms, formerly United States Senator from North Carolina, started me thinking about our collection of transcripts of Helms’s Viewpoint television editorials. Between 1960 and 1972 Helms was the on-air editorialist for the evening news on Raleigh’s WRAL-TV. Our former curator, Bill Powell, talked the television station into letting us have [...]
Flood of 1916
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Read about the western North Carolina floods of 1916 in this month’s “This Month in North Carolina History.”
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