Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on June 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To the United Brethren of Wachovia. Gentlmen, I am greatly indebted to your respectful and affectionate expressions of personal regard, and I am not less obliged by the patriotic sentiments contained in your address. From a society, whose governing principles are industry and the love of order, much may be expected towards the improvement and [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Literature, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on June 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
As the sun drops below the horizon tonight, more than 100 actors, singers, dancers and stage technicians will mount the opening night show for the 75th season of Paul Green’s award-winning drama The Lost Colony. The play premiered on Roanoke Island in the summer of 1937. The images featured here are from a prompt book [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 30, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson died Tuesday evening in Winston-Salem. He was 89. A native of Deep Gap, N.C., he was considered by many as one of the world’s best flatpick guitar players. He was known for his devotion to family and to the land of his birth, Watauga County in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. [...]
Posted in History, On This Day, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 29, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On May 29, 1888 William Henry Belk opened a dry good store in his hometown of Monroe. Although the store was originally known as New York Racket, the name was changed to Belk Brothers in 1891 when John Belk, an Anson County doctor, joined the company. The business grew as the Belk brothers partnered with [...]
Posted in History, Memorabilia Moment, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Memorial Hall was the University of North Carolina’s first monument to graduates killed in war. Occupied in 1885, the building honored the University’s Civil War dead as well as David Lowry Swain, who served as the University’s president from 1835-1868, and others who served the University. Memorial Hall was the first building erected on campus [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 24, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Willis Haviland Carrier may get credit as the first to devise a system for simultaneously cooling, dehumidifying, circulating and cleansing the air. But it’s a Tar Heel, Stuart W. Cramer, who coined the term to describe the system. Cramer delivered a talk on “Recent Development in Air Conditioning” at the annual conference of the American [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, the 21st of May, 1870, the Conservative Party of Caswell County met in Convention, at the Court-house of the county, to nominate candidates to represent the county in the next Legislature and for county officers, and on an occasion of the kind it is to be presumed that many persons would be present, [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Great Alamance Camp May 16, 1771 In answer to your Petition, I am to acquaint you that I have ever been attentive to the true Interest of this Country, and to that of every Individual residing within it. I lament the fatal Necessity to which you have now reduced me, by withdrawing yourselves from the [...]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, On This Day, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
We assemble in the little village of Chapel Hill on the old campus of the University of North Carolina to dedicate to youth and truth, beauty and goodness, the Morehead Building. This building is now forever to be the home of the Genevieve Morehead Memorial Art Gallery, the Morehead Planetarium, and the Morehead Foundation for [...]
Posted in History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Postcards, Tar Heelia, Tar Talk on May 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By mid-April three vessels were being readied for the passage to America: a 120-ton ship named Lyon, a flyboat, and a pinnace. When the little fleet finally set sail from Portsmouth on April 26, it was reported that 150 men had signed on as colonists, not counting wives and children and, apparently, some single women. [...]
