Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia on June 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The origin of this pinback button puzzled me for several years, until I stumbled onto the story while looking up something else in the North Carolina Collection reading room. (Not the first time for that experience.) Clue: The year was 1946. Can you identify it? What, no takers? Clue No. 2: It was part of [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For 37 years, the Rogers Road community in Chapel Hill has been at the center of a public debate about the impact of the Orange County Landfill, which borders the neighborhood. A new exhibit in the North Carolina Collection Gallery of UNC’s Wilson Library tells a deeper story, uncovering more than two centuries of the [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on June 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
One of my colleagues pointed this item out to me the other day, and I thought it would make a nice “Where the Heel?” posting. I’ve edited the county name out of the image, but I’ve left in the other phrases. Do you know what county claims to be the “Cradle of Liberty in America”? [...]
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, Postcards, Tar Heelia on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Above are two buttons that represented North Carolina at the 1939 World’s Fair held in New York. These buttons come from the Lew Powell Memorabilia Collection, and according to Mr. Powell, Gov. Clyde Hoey dedicated the state’s exhibit at the New York World’s Fair with praise for “the English, Scottish, Irish and German… desire of [...]
Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on June 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The image below is from the NC Postcard Collection. If you click on the image, you can find out a little more information on the postcard, but we’re putting it on the blog because we need your help. Does anyone recognize the man included in the inset on the left? This isn’t a quiz or [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on June 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A UNC grad and former student assistant of ours recently shared with us some information that may explain the origins of a term much in use at the University through about the first half of the twentieth century. Some of the student dances at UNC were called Germans. There was usually a Fall German and [...]
Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Over the past few months we’ve uploaded many a new town to NC Postcards, including: Bostic, Rutherford County Lake Lure, Rutherford County New Holland, Hyde County All Healing Springs, Alexander County Catawba Springs, Catawba County Mill Spring, Polk County Mount Vernon Springs, Chatham County Panacea, Warren County Vade Meacum, Stokes County Park Springs, Caswell County [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on June 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several new titles just added to “What’s New in the North Carolina Collection?” To see the full list simply click on the link in this entry or click on the “What’s New in the North Carolina Collection?” link under the heading “Pages” in the right column. As always, full citations for all the new titles [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on June 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Have you ever seen the movie Field of Dreams? I have to admit that I love this movie–maybe because of my unfulfilled dreams of being a major league baseball player? One of my favorite characters in the movie is “Moonlight” Graham, played by Burt Lancaster. Did you know that the fictional “Moonlight” was based on [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A longtime reader and frequent contributor pointed out another North Carolina/President connection. The statue of Ronald Reagan that was just installed in the National Statuary Hall Collection was created by Chas Fagan, an artist from Charlotte. You can read more about it here: “Charlotte sculptor creates Reagan statue.”
