Posted in Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
For our friends on the Gulf coast, celebrating Mardi Gras means wild revelry in the streets. For us at the NCC Gallery, it means highlighting a few of our lesser-known holdings. These aluminum doubloons are throws from the annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans. Throws, of course, are the trinkets thrown from Mardi Gras [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged atomic gardens, irradiated peanuts, muriel howorth, royal commonwealth society, walter c gregory on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In March 1959, scientists, government officials and lesser worthies assembled for a dinner party at the Royal Commonwealth Society, London. “Unbeknownst to them, one course was a strange strain of American peanuts: ‘NC 4x… North Carolina 4th generation X-rayed’ peanuts, produced from seeds that had been exposed to 18,500 roentgen units. “The irradiated peanuts were [...]
