Posted in From the Stacks, History, Literature, Tar Heelia, UNC History on December 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Hannukah, the Jewish festival of lights, offered pale competition for Christmas—puny candles against a dazzling tree, ‘Rock of Ages’ against the tyranny of carols and decorations that took over the stores, the radio, the schools, and the imagination of all my friends. Parents billed Hannukah as ‘better than Christmas,’ an unintentional error that placed a [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged george preston marshall, r.j. reynolds, thomas g smith, washington redskins, Winston-Salem on December 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“Disappointed by soft ticket sales for an exhibition game against the Green Bay Packers, [Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall] called the host city of Winston-Salem… a ‘lousy town.’ “Stung by the criticism, the Rotary Club invited him to take a tour of the city. He accepted, only to ridicule the R. J. Reynolds tobacco [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged jim crow in nc, raleigh nc on December 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“RALEIGH, N.C. — There has been a demand for separate coaches for the whites and blacks on the railroads of this State ever since the war, but the influence of the railroads has been sufficient to prevent the introduction of the ‘Jim Crow’ cars as they are called by the negroes. The argument of the [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Literature, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Seen on the sea, no sign; no sign, no sign In the black firs and terraces of hills Ragged in mist. The cone narrows, snow Glares from the bleak walls of a crater. No. Again the houses jerk like paper, turn, And the surf streams by: a port of toys Is starred with its fires [...]
Posted in Recipes, Tar Heelia on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for some new recipes this holiday season. Maybe one of this will become a new tradition. “Holiday Cookies” from Historic Moores Creek Cook Book: A Collection of Old and New Recipes. “Holiday Sausage Stuffing” from Cooking with Berries. “Cecil’s Holiday Punch” fom A Taste of the Old and the New. Note: “Sip slowly!” “Leone’s [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged goldsboro four, goldsboro nc, Philip Berrigan, seymour johnson air force base on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1993: Four protesters, including longtime peace activist Philip Berrigan, slip onto Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro and symbolically attack an F-15E Strike Eagle jet with hammers and bottles of blood. Arrested some 100 times, the 70-year-old Berrigan has spent a total of six years in jail. He and the [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, UNC History, tagged charlotte observer, jesse helms, jesse helms center, john dodd, taylor batten, unc chapel hill, university of negroes and communists on December 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“Did Jesse Helms ever call UNC the ‘University of Negroes and Communists’? “That line has been attributed to the late longtime U.S. senator for many years by many sources. John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, says it is ‘a fabrication.’ ” – From “Jesse Helms and the ‘University of Negroes and [...]
Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Early course catalogs from UNC are now available online at DigitalNC. Ranging in date from 1822 through 1870, these catalogs contain lists of required courses as well as rosters of faculty and students at the University. Recent graduates won’t have a hard time finding differences between the great variety classes offered now and the significantly [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged fred olds, nc hall of history, nc museum of history, nc museum of natural history on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1902: The Hall of History, later known as the N.C. Museum of History, opens in Raleigh. Overseeing the museum is “Colonel” Fred Olds, who has combined his personal collection of memorabilia with that passively accumulated by the N.C. Museum of Natural History. Olds, former city editor of the News & Observer, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk, UNC History on December 3, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Here’s a question for you. What song would best serve as the state’s theme song? That question came to mind this morning as I sampled the works produced by the Beat Making Lab at UNC-Chapel Hill (You can read about one of the Beat Making Lab’s projects in The News and Observer from December 2). [...]
