Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on August 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just returned from my family’s annual pilgrimage to Sunset Beach, a trip that we’ve been making since 1969. And the thought just occurred to me that I may have crossed for the last time the floating drawbridge that connects the barrier island to the mainland. The bridge is an iconic structure – one that [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged atomic bomb, guilford college, hiroshima, quakers, world war ii on August 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1945: Meeting at Guilford College during the last week of World War II, North Carolina Quakers declare, “We bow in penitence for helping to cause this war through selfishness, isolation and lack of vision, for now having loosed history’s most barbaric instrument of destruction.”
