Posted in From the Stacks, History, Literature, Tar Heelia on June 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Below lay the library, eight Greek columns with Doric capitals, great graceful glass doors like reflective eyes. ‘The library is the focal point of the university,’ he said. They walked step by step toward it. It was the shape of the Parthenon. The smell that came out the swinging doors toward them was cool, bookish, [...]
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 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 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, Tar Heelia on May 15, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I learned a new word on Monday: “absquatulated.” I’m no scholar of journalism, but I’m assuming that the cost of this notice was not calculated by the number of characters used. [This image comes from the 20 May 1847 issued of the Hillsborough Recorder.]
Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, Memorabilia Moment, On This Day, Tar Heelia on May 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The North Carolina Symphony played its first concert at Hill Hall in Chapel Hill on May 14, 1932. Lamar Stringfield conducted 48 musicians hailing from 11 communities throughout the state. The N.C. Symphony garnered state support in 1943 when the N.C. General Assembly passed the “horn tooter” bill, which provided $2000 yearly from 1943-1945.
