Posted in From the Stacks on March 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I found the above riddle while perusing the stacks yesterday. Who wants to take a guess? The riddle was supposedly “[s]hot on the point of an arrow, from General Washington’s army into Cornwallis’s tent, the night before [a] decisive battle.” Image from: As great a man as Nelson! … : the life of the most [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged b drummond ayres jr, claude sitton, franklin garland, kim severson, nc truffles, peter applebome, roy reed, susan rice alexander on March 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Hat tip to New York Times reporter and author Kim Severson for snatching from beneath the very noses of North Carolina’s MSM — not to mention its free-range bloggers and tweeters — this lively front page account of the spittin’ and litigatin’ match between rival truffle promoters Susan Rice Alexander of Southern Pines and Franklin [...]
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UNC’s Wilson Special Collections Library is undergoing changes that will affect the rooms in which material from the various collections are used and procedures for accessing the items. See below for more details. Friday, March 4th, 2011: The 4th floor Reading Room (formerly where Southern Folklife Collection, Southern Historical Collection, and University Archives items were [...]
