Ah, Wachovia. From your modest beginnings, you became rich and famous… …and then only famous… …and now….
Archive for October, 2011
Banking upheaval claims a familiar name
Posted in History, tagged nc banks, wachovia, Winston-Salem on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
N.C.: Where future terrorists matriculate?
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged central piedmont community college, chowan college, nc a&t, samir khan, unc chapel hill psychology club, western carolina university on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Samir Khan, the al-Qaida blogger killed in a recent U.S. airstrike, studied at Central Piedmont Community College in 2005. Can you name the future terrorist who… …attended Chowan College and graduated from N.C. A&T in mechanical engineering? …spent two semesters at Western Carolina University? …served as president of the UNC Chapel Hill Psychology Club? [...]
Artifact of the Month: Surgical instrument
Posted in Artifact of the Month, Tar Heelia on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
October’s Artifact of the Month is a surgical instrument used by Dr. Benjamin Abel Sellars (1816-1896), a native of Alamance County. An aging identification tag indicates that the tool may have been used in the 1850s when B.A. Sellars, as the doctor was more commonly known, moved to Randolph County to practice medicine. According to [...]
Early Issues of Black Ink Available Online
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Early issues of Black Ink, the newspaper of the Black Student Movement at UNC-Chapel Hill, are now available online through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. Dating back to 1969, Black Ink documents the experience of and issues related to African American students at UNC. The paper provides especially good coverage of student protest movements [...]
Call home immediately, Maurice R. Thurlow
Posted in On This Day, tagged diamond shoals, maurice r thurlow, outer banks, us coast guard on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1927: The schooner Maurice R. Thurlow runs aground during a storm off the Outer Banks. It signals for help, and its crew of nine is taken ashore in a Coast Guard surfboat. Few ships stranded on Diamond Shoals are ever refloated, but after the storm the Coast Guard can find no [...]
He came in through the bathroom window….
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged anthrax attacks, bruce ivins, kappa kappa gamma, unc chapel hill on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“By the mid-1970s, Bruce Ivins had earned his doctorate and was a promising researcher at the University of North Carolina. By outward appearances, he was a charming eccentric, odd but disarming. Inside, he still smoldered with resentment, and he saw a new outlet for it. “Several years earlier, a [University of] Cincinnati student had turned [...]
In Pinehurst, a general grand but not grandiose
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged alistair cooke, george c. marshall, pinehurst on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“In the last few years of his life [George C. Marshall, General of the Army and recipient of the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize] used to drive downtown most days from his small house in Pinehurst, North Carolina, buy his groceries in the supermarket, tote them to his car to the accompaniment of a nod from [...]
Sinking of sidewheeler leads to mandatory life preservers
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged cape hatteras, life preservers, ocracoke nc, ship sinkings, steamboat act on October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1837: The steamship Home, seeking to break its own record for fastest passage from New York to Charleston, fails to survive a storm off Cape Hatteras. Of 135 passengers and crew members, 90 perish. The storm is not especially violent by Outer Banks standards, but the sleek, 220-foot sidewheeler, converted from [...]
John Brown without tears (to say the least)
Posted in History, Just A Bite, tagged boston, john brown, raleigh on October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Fanaticism in the North is rampant….On yesterday, the godly city of Boston, built up and sustained by the products of negro slave labor, went into mourning, fasting and prayer over the condign punishment of a negro stealer, murderer and traitor…. “In all the Noo England towns and villages, we may expect to hear that mock [...]
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