Take a flying tour of North Carolina in this new 3D Google Earth Tour of the North Carolina Maps site:
Posted in Tar Heelia on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Take a flying tour of North Carolina in this new 3D Google Earth Tour of the North Carolina Maps site:
Posted in On This Day, tagged canton nc, duke university, dylan thomas, fred chappell, unc greensboro, william blackburn on May 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1953: Fred Chappell, a junior at Canton High School, hitchhikes 250 miles to Duke University to hear his hero, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Chappell will soon enroll at Duke and study under writing professor William Blackburn, whose students over the years also include Reynolds Price, William Styron, Josephine Humphreys and Anne [...]