Posted in From the Stacks, History on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In her book Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color, North Carolina Museum of History curator Patricia Marshall calls Thomas Day “one of the fathers of the North Carolina furniture industry.” Day, a free African American in the nineteenth century, owned one of the largest pre-Civil War cabinet shops in North Carolina. Many [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, Tar Heelia, tagged charlotte nc, the new yorker magazine, whistler's mother on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The New Yorker’s supercilious first mention of North Carolina in 1925 proved to be typical of those for decades to come: “The depressing motto of the Charlotte Theatre, Charlotte, North Carolina, is ‘Attend the Movies Regularly. In No Other Way Can You Get So Close to Life for So Little.’ ” – Aug. 30, 1947 [...]
