Posted in From the Stacks, History on June 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Archival collections hold thousands of scrapbooks, (the Library of Congress has at least six thousand) and the North Carolina Collection is no exception. Perhaps the largest single group there is the fifty-plus scrapbooks of the Carolina Playmakers, a university group dedicated to folk drama. Started in 1918 by Frederick Henry Koch (1877-1944), the Playmakers produced [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged homicide, slavery on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The decline of the homicide rate came later in North Carolina than in New England or the Chesapeake, but by the mid-18th century it… also had a low rate …. “Indian warfare and political strife (including three rebellions against the colonial government) had periodically reduced the colony to lawlessness. But as racial slavery took hold [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged biltmore house, david lowenthal, kent, leeds castle, the heritage crusade and the spoils of history, william a v cecil on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The American mogul William A. V. Cecil told a bi-national meeting at Leeds Castle, Kent, in 1980 how he had transformed his North Carolina estate, Biltmore, from debt-laden encumbrance to lucrative honeypot by moving out of the house. This horrified the custodial English, bent on tenanting their stately homes even if bankrupt. Britons cared about [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill still very much on our minds, we thought it timely to share with you a few items from our collections about oil drilling in the Tar Heel State. Here are a few facts garnered from the various items. From 1925 to 1976, oil explorers drilled 120 wells in [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged bones mckinney, celtics vs. lakers, house that 4-h peanuts built, pow camps, seal level nc, staten island on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
– Lakers vs. Celtics, old school. Old, old school. Check out this game program coverboy. – Sea Level’s loss is Staten Island’s gain. – The House that 4-H Peanuts Built has been relocated to a former camp for German POWs.
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged charles darwin, charles reagan wilson, j. william jones, lost cause, university of north carolina on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“[Rev. J. William Jones, a Virginia Baptist] was the most influential and well-known clergyman in the cult of the Lost Cause. “When the Charlotte, North Carolina, school board adopted a book by a Northern author, Jones gave speeches and organized protests by veterans’ groups. He called the book ‘utterly untruthful,’ written with ‘all of the [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We noticed in a recent news story that the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission may get involved in the Jeffrey MacDonald case. MacDonald was convicted and is serving three-life sentences for the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters at their Fort Bragg home in 1970. He has long maintained his innocence. See below [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on June 16, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Dr. H. G. Jones, who served as curator of the North Carolina Collection from 1974 to 1993, was quoted by President Barack Obama in a speech on the “Post-9/11 GI Bill.” Appearing at George Mason University in August 2009, the President stated: No number can sum up this sea change in our society [due to [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged hickory, polio, poster child on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“In 1944 polio swept through defenseless communities…. The worst epidemic, near Hickory, North Carolina, would provide the first real test for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. “The foundation agreed to equip and staff a makeshift polio hospital…. Like most polio epidemics, the one in Hickory faded with the cooling winds of fall. The hospital [...]
Posted in From the Stacks on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s another digital resource from our past… Gone But Not Forgotten: North Carolina’s Educational Past This site was designed and produced in 2006 and 2007 by Jennifer Townes, a research assistant in the North Carolina Collection. Items selected for digitization were taken from the College Ephemera Collection, which contains ephemeral material from 164 scholarly institutions [...]
