Posted in From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on March 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
An article about Chatham County’s once brisk trade in rabbits in the April issue of Our State magazine sparked us to dig through our collection for reminders of that history. According to Fred J. Vatter’s Tales Beyond Fried Rabbit: Chatham’s Historical Heritage, W.S. Durham (the man soliciting for rabbits in the ad above) opened his [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged alex heard, david sedaris, dorothea dix hospital, mike daisey, raleigh nc, this american life on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Mike Daisey isn’t the first “This American Life” monologist to see his veracity challenged. Five years ago this week, under the headline “This American Lie,” the New Republic painstakingly detailed the habitual fabrications of David Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh and set much of his supposed “nonfiction” there. Contributor Alex Heard investigated Sedaris’s accounts [...]
