Legendary coach Dean Smith turns 80 years old today. Hope you have a good one, Coach Smith. [Image above is from the Hugh Morton Photograph Collection, North Carolina Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, UNC]
Archive for February, 2011
Happy Birthday Dean!
Posted in From the Stacks, Tar Heelia on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Who was North Carolina’s last man standing?
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged bath nc, catawba nc, david samuel 'tex' little, frank buckles, jackson wyo, nc division of veterans affairs, new bern nc, oldest veterans, robert hodges, wwi veterans on February 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The widely noted death of Frank Buckles made me wonder: Who was North Carolina’s last surviving veteran of World War I? Depending on how strictly you define “North Carolina’s” and “World War I,” he seems to have been either – David Samuel “Tex” Little, born in Catawba but moved to Texas after the war and [...]
Remembering a Tar Heel in John Brown’s Raid
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
State and local officials unveiled a highway historical marker recognizing the life of Lewis Sheridan Leary in Fayetteville yesterday. Leary was among the 21 men who joined John Brown in the raid on Harpers Ferry on Oct. 16, 1859. Leary was born in Fayetteville in 1835. The son of free blacks, Leary worked with his [...]
Who can ever forget Vandermint Auditorium?
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy, back to the future ii, frost-nixon, rat race, talladega nights, the right stuff, the truman show, this is spinal tap on February 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
1. “Vandermint Auditorium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.” 2. “There’s a meteor the size of North Carolina heading straight for Earth!” 3. “When I think of Orville and Wilbur Wright standing on a hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, tossing a coin to see which one would take the first airplane flight… and then I think [...]
A link dump even more instructive than usual
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, charlotte nc, covered wagons, eagles, flash mobs, garner nc, lexington nc, moonshine, new washington indiana, pawn stars, pillow fights, rowan county nc, slim jim sausage on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– How Charlotte got to be CHARLOTTE (while somehow retaining an amazing microhabitat or two). – How Asheville came to host its first flash mob pillow fight (while still honoring its more traditional pastimes). – How a covered wagon from Rowan County ended up on the second floor of a restaurant in New Washington, Indiana. [...]
One-term president less likely to become king?
Posted in Tar Talk, tagged constitutional chaff, constitutional convention, hugh williamson, jane butzner on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“….We shall at some time or other have a king; but no precaution should be omitted that might postpone the event as long as possible — ineligibility a second time appears to be the best precaution. With this precaution I would go so far as a 10 or 12 year term.” — North Carolina delegate [...]
Lizard Lick Makes It Big…If You Watch truTV
Posted in Tar Heelia on February 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Even though I currently live in Wake County, I’ve never ventured out to Lizard Lick, a crossroads community in eastern Wake County. I’ve always wanted to say that I’ve been there…or at least through there. Little did I know, however, that I could be magically swished away to Lizard Lick by simply switching on truTV’s [...]
R.I.P., Buddy Lewis: Big bat, bad glove, long life
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, Tar Heelia, tagged buddy lewis, clarence 'ace' parker, gastonia nc, lou gehrig, luckiest man on the face of the earth, oldest living baseball players, ty cobb, washington senators on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
John “Buddy” Lewis, onetime Washington Senators slugger, died last week in his native Gastonia. At 94 Lewis was the 11th oldest living major league baseball player — and the only one whose career had begun before 1936. (Second-oldest: 98-year-old Clarence “Ace” Parker, Duke’s two-sport star.) Lewis’s chronic weakness was fielding. Before the Senators exiled him [...]
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