Posted in Artifact of the Month, Tar Heelia on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ella Williams Graves Thompson created the December Artifact of the Month: a framed design of pressed flowers. According to a note accompanying the piece, Thompson gathered and pressed the flowers in 1882 during the first year of her marriage to George Nicholas Thompson of Caswell County. While pregnant with the couple’s first child in 1884, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, tagged avalon nightclub, chapel hll nc, john jeremiah johnson, the miz, the new yorker, the real world mtv on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“It was maybe an hour before midnight at the Avalon Nightclub in Chapel Hill, and the Miz [a player on the MTV reality show "The Real World"] was feeling nervous. I didn’t pick up on this at the time — I mean, I couldn’t tell. To me he looked like he’s always looked, like he’s [...]
