Posted in Just A Bite, tagged nc industry, nc legislature, nc tax reform on February 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“With the convening of the legislature, agitation for tax reform increases…. Prominent industrialists have stated that the state is beginning to suffer acutely as a result of the burden of tax upon industry. In fact, many industrial enterprises have gone to Alabama, Georgia, Florida and other states recently to escape the burden of taxation in [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged d w griffith, django unchained, john ford, ku klux klan, quentin tarantino, the birth of a nation, thomas dixon on February 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Henry Louis Gates: [Django Unchained] is an opposite extreme of The Birth of a Nation. Did that play a conscious role in your mind? Reversing the depiction of slavery that The Birth of a Nation registered? Quentin Tarantino: Yeah, you have to understand, I’m obsessed with The Birth of a Nation and its making. HLG: [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on February 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“In late 1959, Thomas J. White, a former state representative of North Carolina and a powerful figure in the state’s political circles, was appointed chairman of the commission to build the new North Carolina State Legislative Building. The commission had already heard from a number of North Carolina architects who had expressed a strong interest [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Literature, tagged fairmont nc, joseph mitchell, nc writers, the new yorker, thomas kunkel on February 6, 2013 | 2 Comments »
“Several years ago… I began to be oppressed by a feeling that New York City had gone past me and that I didn’t belong here anymore. I sometimes went on from that to a feeling that I never had belonged here, and that could be especially painful. At first, these feelings were vague and sporadic, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, UNC History, tagged empire of liberty, gordon s wood, student protests, university of north carolina on February 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“…When college students, like those at the University of North Carolina in 1796, could debate the issue of whether ‘the Faculty had too much authority,’ then serious trouble could not be far away…. “Between 1798 and 1808, American colleges were racked by mounting incidents of student defiance and outright rebellion — on a scale never [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged anna marie wells, nc tourism, rebecca cahill mcintyre, souvenirs of the old south on January 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“In ‘The Poetry of Traveling’ (1838)… Bostonian Anna Marie Wells spoke of the fine scenery in Buncombe County but warned visitors about the crudeness of Southern society. While the views from the mountains filled her soul with the wonder of God’s glory, the local population did not…. She mocked their strange accents and their peculiar [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged allen c guelzo, civil war blockades, fateful lightning, wilmington nc on January 20, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“One sailor stationed off Wilmington, North Carolina, explained in his diary how adventurous blockade duty really was: ” ‘I told her [his mother] she could get a fair idea of our ‘adventures’ if she would go on the roof of the house, on a hot summer day, and talk to half a dozen hotel hallboys, [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged george packer, southern politics, the new yorker, w j cash on January 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“For a century after losing the Civil War, the South was America’s own colonial backwater — ‘not quite a nation within a nation, but the next thing to it,’ W.J. Cash wrote in his classic 1941 study, ‘The Mind of the South’…. “Cash has this description of ‘the South at its best’: ‘proud, brave, honorable [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged bitterly divided: the south's inner civil war, david williams, nc civil war on January 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“Planters in the low country of North Carolina… were terrified to learn that, as one wrote, Unionists among the lower classes had ‘gone so far as to declare [that they] will take the property from the rich men & divide it among the poor men.’ “It was no idle threat. From near the war’s beginning [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged appointment in samarra, charlotte nc, john o'hara on January 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“There is a minor incident [in "Appointment in Samarra," 1934] of a girl climbing a flagpole at a country club. At the time I wrote that, it was my invention, but after the book was published, I learned that a girl had climbed a flagpole at a country club in North Carolina, and another girl [...]
