I found this ad in the Charlotte News from September 6, 1911: What do you think, Charlotteans? Is Myers Park still “the suburb distinctive”?
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Selling Myers Park, 1911
Posted in DigitalNC, History on September 4, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Dirty Dancing at Lake Lure This Weekend
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Postcards, Tar Heelia on August 17, 2012 | 3 Comments »
There will be lots of recalling Baby and Johnny this weekend as the town of Lake Lure holds its 3rd annual “Dirty Dancing Festival.” Parts of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing, featuring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey as star-crossed lovers Johnny and Baby, were filmed in and around Lake Lure. Scenes of Johnny, Baby and [...]
R.I.P., Karl Fleming, stalwart of the race beat
Posted in History, tagged claude sitton, karl fleming, newsweek, son of the rough south on August 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Death noted: Karl Fleming, 84, one of the greats of civil rights reporting. Fleming was born in Newport News, Va., but grew up in the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh, attended Appalachian State and worked on dailies in Wilson, Durham and Asheville before landing his career-defining job at Newsweek. This is from his “Son of the [...]
Davie Popular Damaged by 1902 Storm
Posted in DigitalNC, History, Tar Heelia on August 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There are a lot of things wrong with this article, which I found in the August 15, 1902 edition of the Elm City Elevator, from the small town of Elm City, located in Wilson County. To begin with, the tree revered by UNC-Chapel Hill students and alumni alike is referred to as the “David Poplar” [...]
Coming Soon: More 19th and Early 20th Century NC Newspapers Online
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, History, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on August 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Big news from Washington, D.C. And it doesn’t involve tax cuts, jobless numbers or the Presidential campaign. We recently received word from the National Endowment for the Humanities that we’ll receive $303,192 over the next two years to make available online North Carolina newspapers dating from 1836-1922. We’ll be joining the National Digital Newspaper Program, [...]
Politicians: Flip-Flopping is Out. Twisting and Turn is In.
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Raleigh Register‘s description of campaigning à la 1850s could spur today’s campaign strategists to return to some methods of old. At the polls, there was a slight lack of that calm Roman dignity ascribed to us by our Fourth-of-July orators—inasmuch as the voters skipped about with the vivacity of Frenchmen, and exercised their tongues [...]
Campaigning in N.C.: A Little Historic Perspective
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The polling-places of such out-of-the way districts as Nantahala Precinct, Swain Co., N.C., where our sketch was made on the day of the late Presidential election, are not provided with all the modern conveniences, nor are the honest voters addicted to vain pomp and personal display. The sacred privilege of the franchise is exercised in [...]
Early Account of Chang and Eng Bunker
Posted in DigitalNC, History, On This Day on July 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1834, the Miners’ & Farmers’ Journal in Charlotte published a long account of the “Siamese Twins,” Chang and Eng Bunker. The twins were in the midst of a world tour, attracting considerable attention wherever they went. A few months after this was published, the twins visited the University of North Carolina [...]
Meet Doodles, the Carolina Parakeet
Posted in History, Tar Heelia on July 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It can be hard to determine just what’s going on in this grainy, black-and-white photo. It’s a bird and a man; that much is clear. To be more specific, it’s a Carolina Parakeet comfortably perched on a man’s necktie. This 1906 photograph is remarkable for a number of reasons. Among them is the man’s seeming [...]
Remembering Andy Griffith: The Lost Colony Loses its Sir Walter and Mayberry, its Sheriff
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on July 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Former UNC President William C. Friday is confirming that Andy Griffith died this morning at his home in Dare County. The Mount Airy native was 86. Griffith’s rise to stardom began at UNC, where he appeared in several Carolina Playmakers productions, including Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Griffith also played Sir Walter Raleigh in The [...]
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