Our Otto Wood post has generated lots of comments, so our readers may also find this news story from the Salisbury Post of interest: Otto Wood’s legend becomes play
Archive for June 17th, 2011
Otto Wood On Stage
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Louis Orr’s North Carolina Etchings, 1939-1951
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North Carolina University, at Chapel Hill / “Old East and Old Well[“] [Etchings of North Carolina Scenes] Album 9, Plate XXXXII© Louis Orr 1949North Carolina Collection While working as a corporate lawyer in Paris in 1929, Tar Heel native Robert Lee Humber met a 50-year-old, Connecticut-born artist living there. The artist, Louis Orr, had already [...]
The man who knew what Bill France needed
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged bill france, c d spangler, charlotte observer, eudora garrison, nascar, wilton garrison on June 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“[Bill France] plunged back into the racing business almost as soon as the fireworks of V-J day had sputtered out. In October [1945] he traveled to Charlotte, N.C., to promote a stock-car race on the old half-mile clay oval at the local fairgrounds. ‘I went to see Wilton Garrison, who was the sports editor of [...]
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