Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on June 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »
The July 2012 issue of Our State includes the editors’ list of 100 North Carolina icons. The list is a mix of the broad and the specific. The state can proudly lay claim to Doc Watson, Krispy Kreme, Thomas Wolfe and Belk. But I don’t think clay, sweet tea or black bears are exclusive to [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged attorney general mike easley, duplin county, gov bev perdue, hanging truck, vr phipps on June 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“After two decades of living in Manhattan, this average New Yorker believed he had seen everything. Today proved that a false assumption…. Someone is driving around with the President hanging in effigy on a truck? Why?… “VR Phipps from North Carolina believes family members were murdered by local law enforcement and a massive cover-up has [...]
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged nc in civil war, new bern nc on June 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1862: Private D.L. Day, Co. B, 25th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, writing in his journal in New Bern: “It is so hot most of the time we are scarcely able to do anything more than keep ourselves as comfortable as possible. All duty is suspended except guard duty and dress parade, and [...]
Posted in Recipes, Tar Heelia on June 15, 2012 | 6 Comments »
From Favorite Recipes. From The Charlotte Cookbook. From Good Eatin’ from Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, Durham, North Carolina. From Carolina Cooking. From Buffet Benny’s Family Cookbook: Recipes, Stories & Poems from the Appalachian Mountains.
Posted in Artifact of the Month, Tar Heelia on June 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a regular follower of the Artifact of the Month, you’ll remember that last month’s post featured Chang Bunker’s silverware. (And if you’re not a regular follower of the Artifact of the Month, why aren’t you?) This month we’re pleased to share another artifact that sheds some light on the everyday lives of Chang [...]
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, On This Day, tagged beech mountain nc, defunct theme parks, jack pentes, land of oz, wizard of oz, yellow brick road on June 15, 2012 | 4 Comments »
On this day in 1970: The Land of Oz, a theme park based on “The Wizard of Oz,” opens atop Beech Mountain. The park, imaginatively conceived by Charlotte artist Jack Pentes, proves too low-tech, too small and too remote — and the weather is often dreary. Attendance is 250,000 the first year but only 60,000 [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged jonathan and susan austin, journalism prizes, yancey county nc, yancey county news on June 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Yancey County is located in the mountainous western stretch of North Carolina, about 45 minutes from Asheville. The county’s population is less than 18,000, and yet it has two local papers: the Yancey Common Times Journal, which has been in publication more than a hundred years, and the ‘other’ newspaper, the Yancey County News, founded [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged american insurgents american patriots, t h breen, wilmington nc on June 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In Wilmington, North Carolina, [in 1775] a committee [of insurgents] went door to door for signatures to a new loyalty oath. According to its own minutes, the committee gave holdouts six days to reconsider before it published their names and ordered fellow-citizens to shun and boycott them — a stern but legal measure. “In the [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on June 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Benjamin Bowser had first come to the station the season before. Etheridge had initially hired him to be the ‘winter man’–the number seven surfman who augmented the crew by one from December through March, the most dangerous months. As the newest and lowest-ranking member of the crew, Bowser had to prove he deserved his place [...]
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged greensboro nc, john sutherland, lives of the novelists, o henry, riverside cemetery, william sydney porter on June 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A work as ambitious as John Sutherland’s just-published “Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives” is bound to contain errors, but of course the one that caught my eye was the mislocated North Caroliniana: “[William Sydney Porter] died, aged only 48, of alcohol-induced cirrhosis of the liver, in North Carolina where [...]
