Posted in History, Tar Heelia on July 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A faithful NCM reader pointed out this digital project created by the North Carolina State Library: Up & Out: Urban Development in North Carolina The site “houses around 500 documents created throughout the 1960s that speak to future town planning and urban development of North Carolina counties, cities, neighborhoods, and lakes.” They will be adding [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged burglary, capital punishment, ernest brooks, gov. r. gregg cherry, rape, wilmington nc on July 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“In North Carolina, the crimes of murder, arson, burglary and rape are punishable by death. Fourteen-year-old Negro Ernest Brooks committed two of them. One night he broke into a Wilmington home, raped a woman eight months pregnant. Caught the next day, Negro Brooks confessed, was sentenced to death. “Last week Governor R. Gregg Cherry commuted [...]
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged brooklyn decker, brooklyn ny, brooklyn public library, charlotte nc, michael hill, north carolina gazetteer, raleigh nc, wilmington nc on July 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Until recently I knew only about Charlotte’s Brooklyn neighborhood, not about Raleigh’s or Wilmington’s. Is this nomencluster anything more than coincidence? Does the name appear elsewhere in North Carolina? (If so, it avoided Michael Hill’s exhaustive expansion of the Gazetteer.) The Brooklyn (New York) Public Library offers this entertaining look at its “Brooklyn (non New [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Can anyone identify this famous North Carolinian? Here are two clues: the photo shown here is from the 1959 Pine Burr, the Campbell College yearbook, and the subject of the photo went on to write a book called Me and the Spitter: An Autobiographical Confession. Learn the answer to this question (and much more!) on [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia, tagged ncc photo archives, theater, unc photo lab on July 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The UNC Photo Lab collection in the Photographic Archives includes over 3,000 pictures of Carolina Playmakers productions from 1946-1984, a rich visual history of Southern theater.
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged camp lejeune, country stores, kitty hawk weather bureau, pimiento cheese, wilmington nc, yadkin river bridge on July 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
– NPR discovers the struggle over how to pronounce Lejeune. – Cache of Outer Banks photos, circa 1900, includes rare shot of Kitty Hawk weather bureau. – Downtown Wilmington landmark is on the move. – Score one for preservation: New role planned for outmoded but still handsome Yadkin River bridge, opened in 1924. – Should [...]
Posted in Postcards, Tar Heelia on July 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I just got back from a vacation, but I’m ready to head back to the beach and take part in this: Climbing the Cape Lookout Lighthouse I’ve been to this lighthouse several times before, but never inside of it. If you go (or have already been), please let us know about it.
Posted in History on July 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This month, Documenting the American South highlights the historical development of railroads in North Carolina, beginning with several key events in 1828. Check it out at: Railroads in North Carolina
Posted in History, Literature, New Books, tagged eli evans, harper lee, lost rights, marcie cohen ferris, priceless, saunders hall, stolendeclaration of independence, to kill a mockingbird, william saunders on July 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
– North Carolina’s infamously swiped copy of the Declaration of Independence, which rated a chapter in “Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures,” graduates to a whole book in “Lost Rights: The Misadventures of a Stolen American Relic.” (Coming soon, a major motion picture?) – UNC Chapel Hill historian Marcie Cohen [...]
