Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On a clear evening he held forth about the so-called dangers of Chapel Hill–at that time the hub of all things liberal in the great north state. He was sure we had been told by the folks at home not to let all those radical University of North Carolina professors fill our heads with nonsense; [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday’s @ncnewspapers headline, from the Charlotte News in 1911, read “Alleged Blind Tiger Seized.” For those of you unfamiliar with Prohibition-era jargon, the story was not about a sightless jungle animal: a “blind tiger” was another name for a speakeasy, or any place where untaxed liquor (often homemade) was sold. I first ran across the [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia on April 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was a singular spectacle, that immense column of every color and ever possible description, that drew out of camp on Wednesday, the 15th of March, and set out for Wilmington via Clinton. There were 4,500, mostly negroes, from my wing alone. Major General Oliver Otis Howard to Major L.M. Dayton, Assistant Adjutant General, Military [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged bitterly divided, civil war soldiers' wives, confederate deserters, david williams on April 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In February 1864, a North Carolina government official wrote: ‘Desertion takes place because desertion is encouraged…. And though the ladies may not be willing to concede the fact, they are nevertheless responsible’…. “One woman not only conceded her encouragement of desertion, she made it publicly clear. At the rail depot in Charlotte, she called to [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged 60 minutes, charlotte douglas international airport, eastern airline flight 212, morley safer, stephen colbert on April 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“It has been said… that all good comedians have some painful experience in their lives. Any truth to that thesis, do you think?” [Morley] Safer asked. “Sure,” Colbert replied. “My father and two of my brothers died when I was 10. I think I did my best to cheer my mom up.” The three were [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia on April 25, 2012 | 3 Comments »
On this day in 1908 Edward R. Murrow was born in the Guilford County community of Polecat Creek. Named Egbert Roscoe Murrow by his parents, the CBS News broadcast legend changed his name to Edward while a college student. The Murrow family left their Guilford County farm when Murrow was six and moved to Washington [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged adam clayton powell, dan k moore, geoffrey kabaservice, paradox of tar heel politics, rob christensen, robert l gavin, rule and ruin, terry sanford on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In the [1964] North Carolina governor’s race, approximately 97 percent of black voters preferred segregationist Democrat Dan K. Moore to his integrationist Republican opponent, Robert L. Gavin. As Gavin explained, ‘This I believe was because of the determination of the Negro race to defeat our [Goldwater-Miller] national ticket.’ ” — From “Rule and Ruin: The [...]
Posted in Recipes, Tar Heelia on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
President Barack Obama will be on campus today. Here are a few recipes fit for the occasion. From High Hampton Hospitality. From The Charlotte Cookbook.
Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As UNC-Chapel Hill prepares for a visit by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, we thought it appropriate to recall previous Presidential visits to campus. The photographs below, by Hugh Morton, attest to visits by Presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton. Both visited on October 12, the anniversary date of when the cornerstone for the [...]
Posted in History, Literature, On This Day, tagged gone with the wind, margaret mitchell, mind of the south, w j cash on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1941: W.J. Cash writes Margaret Mitchell to explain a reference to her “Gone With the Wind” in his “The Mind of the South”: “About that ‘sentimental’ crack: thinking it over, I have an idea that what inspired that carelessly thrown-off judgment was the feeling that your ‘good’ characters were shadowy. “On [...]
